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I got out when the combo occurrences of the Weyes Blood delay/debacle and the forum closing went down. CS was so kind and sympathetic, but the brass's reaction was so tasteless. It really felt like the writing was on the wall vis a vis where priorities lie in the community-profit binary. Much...

When I was younger I considered it an outlier in his filmography simply for the directness of the plot, but he's totally present in every frame of that film. There's even [ominous whooshing] over a shot of a grain elevator. You can sense the transcendental meditator in it; I especially love the...

Got caught up on Andor last night. I've got mixed feelings on the release strategy; the three-episode arcs are such clever ways of breaking down and serializing the narrative, but it's a bit hard to keep up with three hours a week. I know that pace is self-imposed, but as a listener of The...

Caught David Lynch's The Straight Story on 35mm in town this weekend. Holy moly. I'd seen it before when I was a teenager on tv (I want to say on the Disney channel, but it may have been IFC), but it absolutely bowled me over this time around. The words I'm looking for are "emotionally...

Anyone have experience with and/or tips on tackling quackgrass, especially in patches where other plants are growing and I can't just smother/scorch it? Prevailing online wisdom recommends painting individual blades with Roundup or somesuch weedkiller.

That makes perfect sense, especially with the Bend/Eugene/Gorge aspect; there are plenty of artists who actually haven't been in town for a while because they hit up Bend/Hayden Homes and cruise straight up to Seattle.

I don't have skin in this game but I was talking to a coworker Friday who said they were seeing Phish at the Moda Center here in PDX on 4/20, and that it was their first show here in 25+ years? How the heck did that happen? They administer Phish stickers with your DEQ emissions test here.

Book 10: Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1), by Marcel Proust I didn’t think I’d ever try to read Proust. But I dropped into The Strand on a work trip in New York last month, and this “new” (20 years ago) translation jumped out at me. It seemed like the right moment. This was a...

I'm late to the game on Common Side Effects but it's great. Excellent animation, weird mix of funny and paranoid tones.

I'm not sure I understand the question

I will believe a new Star Wars movie when I'm seated in the theater

Book 6: Babel-17, by Samuel Delaney Delaney’s loomed in my list of to-reads, particularly his dense opus Dhalgren. This is an early novel from him, a Nebula winner considered his first major work. The ideas certainly fall into the category of mid-century progressive sci-fi, where a lot of...

A very uneven movie, but "Won't somebody save Curlie?" lives in my head.

(more. Pulp)