Weekend 634.0
Watched Flowers of War on TUBI. It’s very brutal, but usually a theater in WWII you never see in movies.
Playmobil365
The tribute site has moved to a new hosting provider. It was a 2014 project commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Playmobil. Can you believe that Playmobil celebrated their 50th Anniversary Continue Reading →
Weekend 633.0
Any suggestions for alleviating writer’s block? (1) Imagine you are driving by Julian Opie (Tate) (2) Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away (engadget)
Weekend 632.0
We were canaries in a coal mine. We stopped going to the parks pre-COVID because Disney broke the value-quality-price equation. (1) Disney theme parks ‘addicted to price hikes’ as visits Continue Reading →
Weekend 631.0
(1) Miniatua’s tiny handcrafted replicas of vintage computers (WAXY)
Weekend 630.0 (He’s an adult human male, and he should do as he pleases.)
(1) My December/January playlist via YouTube. (a) July Tree by Nina Simone. Movies from Hollywood in the WOKE / DEI / ME TOO era are absolute dreck, but Licorice Pizza Continue Reading →
Weekend 629.0
I was scanning old hard drives to find an image and realized I could post one image every day from those archives and have enough content for years. Digital footprint Continue Reading →
Weekend 628.0
A veritable hodgepodge of quality articles and excerpts from my weekend wanderings. (1) Excerpt from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Lord Byron: The Niobe of nations! there she stands,Childless and crownless, Continue Reading →
The s(pace) between football matches: post sabbatical ruminations
This rootedness of reality in the concrete presence of the past is one of the things which makes history so important. We need to know where we’ve been in order Continue Reading →
Weekend 627.0 (Grief at the Frontier)
“The artist is continually going round in egocentric circles. He has consciously severed himself from the past, whose heritage means nothing to him.” — J.B. Lotz This is my sabbatical Continue Reading →