Category: play
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WFF Day 3
We watched only four films yesterday. It’s like we’ve already given up trying to squish as many film as we can into each day. What kind of losers are we, eh? The amazing Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the subject of our first documentary film of the day, “RBG.” My Darling B had probably the most… Read.
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WFF Day Two
“12 Days” was a somber, repetitive, and apparently pointless film that gets its title from the period of time a person can be held against their will in a psychiatric ward before they must be allowed a hearing before a judge to determine if they were rightfully interred. The film opened on a scene of… Read.
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WFF opening night
Yesterday was the opening day of the Wisconsin Film Fest. I didn’t take the day off from work, but My Darling B did. Didn’t get her out of the office, though; she still had to go in for a ten o’clock meeting. That’s just how awesomely important she is: The DMV can’t go on without… Read.
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post cruise
We’re back from our cruise. The cruise ship docked on Sunday morning, then we stayed overnight in San Diego and flew back to Madison on Monday, a trip that took pretty much all day because our flight didn’t leave San Diego until eleven and we had a layover in Denver that was almost three hours.… Read.
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Mr Neutron
I’m about halfway through Monty Python Speaks, a sort of oral history of the show, the movies, and everything else Python. I happened to find a copy while I was at the library trying to convince the desk clerk I returned the copy of The Geek Feminist Manifesto that I checked out last year. While she… Read.
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John Young
Fare thee well, John Young, and we thank you. Read.
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regulation
I’m washing a ton of dirty clothes today, and that means I’m folding a ton of clothes, too, and THAT means I’m watching a movie while I fold clothes. Today, I’m watching Twelve O’Clock High. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen this movie, but it’s not enough. I’m still not tired of it,… Read.
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revenant
It’s been eighteen months since The Deluge, the plumbing accident that created a virtual monsoon in our basement. As bad as it looked then, and it looked REALLY BAD, quite a lot of our possessions escaped The Deluge unharmed. We had hundreds of books down there, for instance, and almost every one of them survived… Read.
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another song bites the dust
I’m a huge fan of the 1966 R&B hit song “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” by The Temptations, not that I heard it all that often before 2006. I came late to my appreciation of classic Motown music, but I love it now and this is one of the best. Been thinking too much about… Read.
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cissy
On this day in 1954 Raymond Chandler’s wife Cissy died. Chandler was arguably one of the greatest mystery writers in American history. If you don’t believe me, read The Lady In The Lake. Chandler wrote this about Cissy after her death, in a letter to a friend: I have received much sympathy and kindness and… Read.
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