Another of my favorite neigborhood restaurants is gone.

Damn.

Lesson: Don't go on reality TV.

caveat emptor.

scourge pricing: electronic labels in stores will allow for dynamic pricing.

RIP Robert Towne. A lot of great work, The Last Detail is probably my favorite.

made it half way through a newly minted monthly criterion selection before succumbing to madness. which of these neo noirs caught my fancy? hint: ive never seen it before.

winner gets a pony!

SCOTUS 6-3 with strongly worded dissents

 

Biden is now a king

shocking but I liked a 46 Rot's on the plane to nyc.......Freud's Last Session

its that time of decade again, youse all. turns out i am from *checks notes* the new york metropolitan area.  

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3E0.srcR.DrckBpWVv1fW&smid=url-share

another one bites the dust. 

rip, martin mull.

biden must have really shit the bed last night as every op-ed page is calling for him to drop out. you lose tom friedman.... but if rbg & dianne feinstein taught me anything, these egoists will drag the country down into the grave with them.

Season 3 The Bear just dropped. But tonight I'll watch The Debate. 

Jordan Belson at MM NYC

this cheery twat, who invented the oculus vr, will one day likely help kill millions of people.

I watched two good films last night.  la ceremonie - a violent tale directed by Claude Chabrol in his usual detached style. Issabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire are excellent. Huppert is hyper-energetic and hilarious, especially in the scenes where the two ransack the house of their victims, an upper-class family in a small town.
I watched the first half a couple of years ago but must have dozed off before the real action started.

And another violent flick pitting the help against the family - The Housemaid, directed by Kim Ki-young • 1960 • South Korea. Reminded me a bit more of Whatever Happend to Baby Jane than Bunuel's surrealism, which it sometimes gets compared to.  Lots of camera moves and a very deliberate style overall. Over the top and twisted.

I found both movies on Criterion via the channel's interviews with Bong Joon Ho.

100 Rot's https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21305876/

is it OK for an old man to watch, or just for the young??

Hilma AF Klint beyond the visible. On criterion

gonna have to put a tombstone under the dmtree eventually.

End Legal Slavery in the United States

had to give disney 10$ a month to watch the new star wars series with commercials

say hey! 

I spent an hour looking for something to watch and finally settled on Shoplifters. Had to see it in two viewings because I was tired from the search.  Excellent performances by the entire cast. I found some of the end a little implausible but I don't know much about Japanese law.  One of the better films I've seen recently.

Concrete Art of Argentina

RIP, The Logo.

"While it's never been officially declared that the logo is Jerry West," Silver said in 2021, "it sure looks a lot like him."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326716/

100 Rots