In Norway there were attacks on Jews and the local Muslim community organised a protest and formed a protective ring around our synagogue (it is a small community). This is who we are, better and stronger together.

Richard Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' (2025) is about the making of 'Breathless'. Everybody (but everybody) is in it.

/2 In those days Black people were called c**ns and lived in coontowns (toontown?). The stereotype then was that Black people were lazy (Disney's black crows) and were obsessed with dancing (Roger Rabbit's downfall). A clever depiction of corporate racism.

This brilliant film referenced at least two historic destructions of thriving Latino/Black neighbourhoods in the 1950s for highways, the Chavez Ravine and the Santa Monica freeway (cf Lessons in Chemistry). /1

Making toast is like adding an enormous percussion section to an orchestra. Fine without but gives it 'bite'.

Steady on now. He campaigned for the lowering of the age of consent claiming boys under 15 could 'consent' to sex. He boasted of having sex with 8 to 10 year old boys in Tunisia. Not someone we'd usually celebrate.

US funds the Venezuela opposition.

All new information - he wasn't actually able to get inside? Amazing quick response that the police arrived within three minutes and were able to shoot three people.

That may be expensive. We'll have to raise our subscription fees.

Please don't call her little. She is a giant.

Sorry we're closed Sunday. Your call is important to us but we are experiencing a high number of calls at this time. Someone will get back to you.

If the police have a shoot to kill policy they're not very good at it are they? One dead and two injured. Although they finished the perp off as he lay on the ground.
To prevent future attacks they propose banning pro Gaza protests.