Day 1: Dreary
The ghost of summer cursing quietly in the cold rain; tsking hisses of droplets exploding on a power line. Ahead is only gray.
#mbnov
Category: Snippets
AC/DC, one of the few institutions the rising generation of authoritarians dare not challenge, returns with a new single, Shot in the Dark. They sound exactly like themselves, which is the highest compliment I can give.
Daughter’s first day of school. Her: happy, tentative, excited; me, teary-eyed, humming Cats in the cradle absentmindedly, wife muttering “shut the f*ck up” under her breath.
I watched Jay & Silent Bob: Reboot the other day. By way of review, well … it’s an objectively bad movie that I subjectively loved. Make of that what you will.
Trying to find a secure email client is easier said than done these days. Most of the new services seem to require you go through their servers, I assume to mine data. And so, Thunderbird remains my weapon of choice.
Finally saw Miller’s Crossing last night. What a movie! I also learned it was based on a Dashiell Hammett book – the same that inspired Kurosawa‘s Yojimbo, which incidentally means that Last Man Standing is, in fact, the second prohibition-era movie based on the same material.
Top o’ the world, ma!
My brief, yet considered review of Frozen II: I enjoyed it.
Each Christmas I’m reminded how lousy I am at gift wrapping, despite having worked in retail in my younger days. Embarrassed and infuriating, though I suppose the customers had bigger reason to complain.