Lock the doors before reading.
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From my personal Wayback Machine, a book review I wrote in January 2020, just before the dragonsh*t hit the fan.
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With Hurricane Season Looming, Trump Is Blocking Relief Funds and Mocking Puerto Rico https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/with-hurricane-season-looming-trump-is-blocking-relief-funds-and-mocking-puerto-rico/
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Absolutely, hands down, Jeffrey Wright deserves the Emmy for best supporting actor. Will he get it? Deserves to win: Jeffrey Wright Critics love him on “Westworld†— he has a magnetic screen presence and the ability to deliver a big twist. Link: Emmy Awards 2017 predictions: Who will win, who deserves to win and who could surprise us all – The Washington Post
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Holy cow. Harry Dean Stanton, rest well and be remembered. Harry Dean Stanton, the veteran American actor who ballasted generations of independent and cult films, has died aged 91. Source: Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91 | Film | The Guardian
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A nifty site that aggregates online radio, including some of my favorites, and scrobbles to Last.fm. www.scrobblealong.com
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David and I listened to this follow up story Thursday on the retired Thiokol engineer who tried to stop the Challenger disaster, and had a parking lot moment of our own. We were meeting Dad and Linda (my father-in-law Sheldon and Shel’s girlfriend Linda) for dinner. As the story ended, we listened, pausing before getting out of the car. NPR listeners evidently had their own driveway or parking lot moments, and responded quickly to the original story. It’s nice to report so many acts of kindness to try to comfort a dying man. After NPR reported Bob Ebeling’s story on…
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Goddamit, Google, not again. You’re retiring yet another essential productivity tool!! Since the launch of Google Photos, we’ve had a lot of questions around what this means for the future of Picasa. After much thought and consideration, we’ve decided to retire Picasa over the coming months in order to focus entirely on a single photo service in Google Photos. We believe we can create a much better experience by focusing on one service that provides more functionality and works across mobile and desktop, rather than divide our efforts across two different products. Via Googleblog: “Moving On From Picasa” I grumble…
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I listen to a LOT of music via Internet radio streams, and until August, I used to be able to put a nice list of "Listening" tracks on my various blogs. That was courtesy of Last.fm, which used to be the main place people could gather or "scrobble" their personal music libraries as they listened to iTunes or CDs on their computers or listened to radio stations online that provided the right kind of track medadata.
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It’s shot like a reality show, but it’s scripted. Supposedly based on real interviews and reenacted, it’s about a Louisiana mystery beast called the “rougarou” that various law enforcement and other investigators are tryiing to track down becausue it’s been killing animals. Then a body is found, and 2 guys are missing. There’s multiple cameras, a soundtrack, complicated technology (thermal cameras, helicopters), and it moves along briskly. At least there’s not a lot of the endless repetition of what’s gone before, at the begining of each segment after one of the (many) commercial breaks. I’ve been watching a lot of…