Frank’s Place. 1987. Sadly, not available for streaming.
Looking into all the things I didn’t have time for before I retired.
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Frank’s Place. 1987. Sadly, not available for streaming.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser began my long appreciation of Werner Herzog.
Slightly diminish a book The Middle Aged Man and the Sea
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr
He’s from Colorado.
Again, is this within his remit? (I assume not.)
RFKjr: Can I trust you to fire the top scientists at the CDC. Monarez: No. RFKjr: Then you’re saying you’re not trustworthy!
Hopefully, means that the brush back pitch from the Khan has worked.
John Malone is now, and has always been, a cunt.
Doesn’t really look like the kind of craft you’d want to use to sail from Venezuela to the US.
They were certainly killed, but “in action”?
As I recall, SCOTUS has original jurisdiction for disputes between states - should Pritzker go directly to them (and soon) with this?
Everything about this series has been perfection, but I really want to shout out your use of music - just sublime.
Dr. Strangegarry.
Wasn’t Elian Gonzalez during Clinton’s presidency (with Janet Reno head of DOJ), thus before DHS was created?
I hope Pete Hegseth doesn’t see this!
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Yeah, I hope folks get a grip and realize it’s not going to be that easy getting through the rest of this.
I read the news today oh boy About a lucky man who made the grade And though the news was rather sad Well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph
Unforgettable memories: The night described above. The first time I heard Nick Drake (at a pizza joint near DU). The first time I heard Bach’s St Matthews’s Passion. Seeing (and hearing) the first video from OK Computer. (Although, I guess if it’s forgettable, it’s not a memory. 😉)
I just want to relive the night in 1974 when I got high with a bunch of my friends and played poker and listened to the Mahavishnu Orchestra for the first time.
I think we’re being suckered. The ruling on the tariffs may have sent him over the edge and he’s up in Camp David preparing to (putatively) suspend the Constitution.
Exactly. I wonder if there’s an equivalent to Operation London Bridge in place.
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. “All composed things are like a dream, a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. That is how to meditate on them, that is how to observe them.”
Jose Feliciano in a small room at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in the early’70’s.
Meatloaf in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Everybody in Woodstock.
Elvis Costello filling in for David Letterman when he had his heart surgery.
Tom Petty on The Larry Sanders Show. (Ditto Elvis Costello)
Art Garfunkel in Carnal Knowledge. Paul Simon in Annie Hall.
Roger Daltrey vacuuming in The Mighty Boosh.
Steve Earle was great in The Wire.
Well, so Bowie had a big acting career, but I loved him in Zoolander.
Elvis Costello in Spice World.
It’s one thing to read, it’s another to think like a lawyer. My ethics professor in law school suggested that if we got rid of all the lawyers, everyone would just have to be lawyers. Are we there yet?
Fountains of Wayne- pretty, pretty, pretty good.
Been there, done that. Client could give a shit. Polonius is ridiculed, died behind a curtain, but to thine own self be true is what it’s about. You’ve done good. Rest easy.
‘Cause since when do LLMs have First Amendment rights?
Wrong frame. Should look to tort law and unreasonably dangerous products.
Tom Clancy’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
Kind of a big deal office mate, too.
I’m guessing he’s thinking about the Potsdam Conference - Truman and Stalin carving up the Axis territories in Europe.
Vincent D’Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket
Completely agree - just think one should avoid getting too exercised by the feds taking an equity stake in a distressed company in exchange for needed cash.
I refer you to the discussion of the grants. Trump is totally playing Calvin ball here, but Intel definitely is benefiting as well.
Isn’t it?
If I recall correctly, the feds took large equity stakes in the companies it bailed out in the GFC. This is post hoc, but I think can be seen in that light.
George H.W. Bush was a cheerleader (as was his father, apparently) - from Wikipedia: “Like his father, he was a member of the Yale cheerleading squad.”
I think you should alternate, depending on your mood. (Most days, probably 2, I’d guess.)
Clark Johnson - also played Detective Meldrick Lewis in the earlier David Simon drama Homicide: Life on the Streets (and directed several episodes). I think The Wire is Simon remaking Homicide with a bigger budget.
TNG - Lower Decks.
Increase a band Elvis Costello and the Genuines
Meh. Always fun to watch Tim Olyphant, but the premise is both too complicated (competition among cyborgs/synths/hybrids and trillionaires) and basic/static (monster chase in high rise).
So, enlighten us.
So Mary Jo Kopechne meant everything Ted Kennedy ever did afterwards was invalid?
Big Jim Thompson, Governor of Illinois for 14 years and fellow Northwestern Law School alum.
For a moment I thought that was James Trafficante.
Best atheist anthems: Dear God - XTC God’s Song - Randy Newman God Isn’t Real - Robbie Fulks Imagine - John Lennon
Ok, so Jacob Javits. Also, Baker was pretty key in getting rid of Nixon. My point is there was more than one, although mostly from the northeast. (Or NY - Nelson Rockefeller, John Lindsay).
Howard Baker.
This is not an idea worth pursuing in any guise whatsoever.
Took me a bit to recognize, but very clever! Also perhaps my favorite TNG episode.
I also enjoyed Soldier of the Great War and Memoir From Antproof Case. I was heartbroken by the Dole thing, although his politics were suggested by a vignette about impoverished children in Winter’s Tale (if I remember correctly).
Mark Helprin, Roald Dahl. (Although Dahl was an antisemite while Helprin emphatically is not.)
“Totalitarian” was just lying there.
I think the “or” in your first parenthetical is a typo (should be “of”?), but it’s pretty funny as-is.
Yep.
Didn’t see anything about the Federalist Society in his bio, but did note that he clerked for Thurgood Marshall. Be interested to see your sources.
Too obvious? youtube.com/watch?v=5eHk...
The TV series with Michael Dorman in the lead role was very good. (I’m a huge Michael Dorman fan - loved him in Patriot and enjoyed him in For All Mankind.)
The tagline says it all - “I’m a man!” “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
This is pretty wild. I don’t think we really need AI to tell us that Trump has a habit of suing his enemies.
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English literature seminar taught from a Jungian perspective.
@scalzi.com based his novel “Red Shirts” on essentially this premise. (Great book - highly recommended!)
Hoisted by your own petard.
Meet Me in St. Louis - Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas. Holiday Inn - any holiday but Presidents Day (although it’s covered - painfully - in the film). The Wizard of Oz - Thanksgiving, because that’s when they showed it on tv when I was a kid.
Independence Day on Independence Day.
@kenwhite.bsky.social Any thoughts on the difference between this and the proceedings in New York? (Simply 11th circuit vs 2nd circuit?)
The Godfather parts 1 and 2
I really enjoyed “When the Moon Hits Your Eye”, but nothing (and I’ve read all of your novels) prepared me for Day 21 - masterful!
Actually Kern and her spikey personality are key to the entire trilogy - her evolution is one of the fascinating aspects of the work, but I can see how it could be a turn off.
Yes, really liked Service Model and Elder Race.
Adrian Tchaikovsky? I assume you’re familiar, but if not, his Children of Time trilogy is superb.
EVERYTHING by Spufford is good - Light Perpetual, Golden Hill and, his latest, Cahokia Jazz.
So sad. I’m especially going to miss “How to read this chart”.
And on a Thursday evening - feels weird.
Goddamnit.
In the distance you can almost see the Sand Creek massacre.
Didn’t realize it was back - thanks for the heads up!
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Bondi is a (somewhat) attractive blonde white woman - does anybody think Trump would dump her in favor of Patel and Bongino? (Also helps that she did him a solid re some scam of his I can’t remember the details of.)
I’ve crossed paths in airport causeways with Robin Williams and Newt Gingrich, and on Michigan Avenue in Chicago with Gene Siskel. Each of them seemed to expect to be accosted for an autograph (the sheepish grin), but I kept walking.
Other than the em dash, actually sounds like legal writing (says a former lawyer).
I seem to recall that Warsaw had something like that once.
