2020-02-03 01:35
One of my favorite old films (I thought I had reviewed it here, but I can’t find it) is George Cukor’s 1951 remake of the Garson Kanin stage play Born Yesterday. It’s not t… Read More
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2018-09-20 16:43
This was written in 2016 before I went to ground school.***I've decided to change airplanes.For an airline pilot, this is kind of a big deal. The equipment you fly at an airline determines a… Read More
2018-09-18 04:07
I’ve long been fascinated with Tudor England.Me and a zillion other people, duh. There have been a hundred billion books and films and tv shows based on the hundred+ years that mark th… Read More
2017-07-02 18:05
This is yet another continuation post to the two previous, detailing some of my impressions about China stemming from our recent vacation there. Specifically, I'm interested in the special c… Read More
2017-07-01 11:35
We’re on a two week vacation in China.I’ve been here often before. Well, I’ve been in the country many times before, but I’ve only visited a handful of cities in what… Read More
2017-06-11 15:19
My new airplane is exposing me to a bunch of places I've not seen before. (New airplane? That's a post I began about six months ago and never finished. Perhaps I'll finish and put up here ou… Read More
2017-04-23 22:28
(Sorry. Written in December and never posted. I have several of these to catch up on.)I've changed airplanes. After seven and a half years on the Mighty Mad Dog--the MD-11--I decided a chang… Read More
2016-07-24 18:33
I'm a lifelong devotee of music. In my early teens I saved my money to buy my first stereo set and began collecting LPs. The advent of the CD came in my junior year of college, and I promptl… Read More
2016-03-25 00:16
I used to be a runner. Years ago.I made it through high school with almost no sporting activity or vigorous exercise at all. I was not involved in any sports (I tried football in junior high… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I'm so unspeakably fortunate that I get paid to do something which I would be PAYING to do in another life. I've always loved travel and longed to do more of it, but I expected the opportuni… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Another near-perfect day in Cologne (walking map--though the out and back were slightly different and this map only partly captures it--can be found here). The usual deal: a quick… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Hotel room view. OK, not the best walking weather.An almost perfect day spent walking in Seoul. Last time, about a month ago, I made a short jaunt to try out the train system (essential, sin… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I finished Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth Of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) a couple weeks ago. The book tells of what has become visible now as the great… Read More
2016-03-14 19:04
One of my scattershot enthusiasms has long been the steam locomotive. Especially the technical peak of the steam era, which (naturally) occurred just before the technology disappeared altoge… Read More
2015-02-18 20:33
Here’s another in my very popular line of posts under the category of “Stuff Everybody Else Figured Out In Their Formative Years But About Which I’m Only Now In My Dotage D… Read More
2015-01-26 03:10
I usually leave a theater with some kind of preliminary conclusion about a film, but as often as not my initial impressions age and morph and solidify with the passage of a little time. Not… Read More
2015-01-26 02:39
Other pictures here.Years ago I built a house in the woods in central Minnesota. Well, I undertook a range of tasks to that end, though a lot of key pieces of the process—framing, conc… Read More
2015-01-26 02:25
I’ve been listening this week to the podcast Serial Read More
2015-01-25 23:57
I’ve always had a thing for Paris. OK, there’s something really unimaginative in that, I know; it’s surely America’s favorite foreign destination (which kind of… Read More
2015-01-25 23:53
It's been a week of movies for me. Stuck in Louisville for work and twice-annual training, I've had a number of days free and a fella can study only so much (or, in my case, almost not at al… Read More
2014-12-14 23:25
Today's film, Laura Poitras's Citizenfour.Citizenfour is a documentary about Edward Snowden's release of classified information relating to massive electronic surveillance of fore… Read More
2014-11-22 03:38
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2014-11-07 04:40
Yesterday's film was writer / director David Ayer's current effort, Fury.Set in the waning days of the European chapter of World War 2, Fury follows a tank crew led by Staff Sergeant Don Col… Read More
2014-11-04 16:58
I recently finished the audiobook of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!Readers may know the novel as the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood (a movie which I admired… Read More
2014-11-04 16:54
I have been a fanatical Diet Coke drinker for 35 years. It's been a lifelong obsession, nearly, and a constant accompaniment to my daily doings. Decades have gone by where I did not fail to… Read More
2014-10-01 14:35
Continuing my ruminations on the pointless, I’ve recently deactivated my FaceBook page.This is the third or fourth time I’ve done this. The first time was to jettison some really… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
With Islamic militants causing havoc in the Middle East and elsewhere, there is an ongoing furor about what should happen to the thousands and thousands of refugees fleeing Syria for, well… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last night's film, John Crowley's Brooklyn (screenplay by Nick Hornby, based on the novel Brooklyn by Colm Tóibin).Saoirse Ronan plays Eilis Lacey, a young girl who leaves her sister… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
How does one review a movie like this? (Is there even such thing as "a movie like this?")The difficulty with Star Wars: The Force Awakens is not in the film itself, which is just fine, but i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yesterday's film: Thomas McCarthy's Spotlight.Very much in the vein of Alan Pakula's 1974 political thriller All The President's Men, Spotlight tells the essentially-true story of the Boston… Read More
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