I only wish you could see the cooler he’s sitting on.

Lorenzo Semple Jr.
named both Commodore Schmidlapp and Admiral Fangschlieister in Batman. He also wrote Papillon, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor and Flash Gordon (1980). Not a bad legacy.

More evidence.

This is a man who could wear clothes.

Our dog’s heart murmur worsened quickly. About $200/month in drugs in the second year. Died in the third year, aged 8, in a pretty upsetting episode.

Home Alone 5: Wet Bandits in Ohio

Wow! I’m sure no one read anything into that.

Is there a similar story behind why Lincoln Cathedral suddenly stopped being the tallest building in the world? I was listening to a story about Strasbourg and it came up, and then evidently soon after came down.

Is it 30% of your income? Saw some family plans higher than that.

It’s really something. Grand and intimate at the same time. I had a lot of feelings. I think I was mostly in awe of how deliberately he meets the listener in the moment. Can you get through the Lazarus video? The album feels like that.

I’ve seen this error sporadically on Apple’s platform with public radio produced podcasts for a few years. Usually fixes itself. I’m not sure where the blame lies.

Inexplicably he’s in a Trivago travel ad in the USA. He chats with two anonymous actors about his great vacation deal over breakfast. He’s never identified. I can’t imagine that a high percentage of viewers recognize him.

This recipe is pretty easy but I felt accomplished when I first did it because they seem sophisticated and they are a joy to eat.

If I recall correctly, this is really similar to how Erich Auerbach characterized the project of fascism in Mimesis.

I can’t remember who, but when this came out, someone said that it seemed very rooted in a recent trends in French feminism. I recall the comment as intended to be meaningful and derogatory. I’m not qualified to say that it’s accurate except to agree that Fargeat is French.

I watched The Women last night and the highlights were the 6 minute fashion show - in color - with gowns by Adrian, and the 3 minutes Rosalind Russell half-assed her calisthenics class.

Diwali potluck is probably the thing the pandemic stole from us that I miss the most.

I was stuck on a plane and missed this one. I follow Tigres because they were my first pro match, in 1987. We’d driven 1600 miles on the way to Guadalajara and stopped for a night with my friend’s cousin. He took us to El Volcán. Peak experience.