What Do I Know?

from Fog 24 Gallery Garry Kaulitz was a long time University of Alaska Anchorage artist and professor.  His works are still alive and availa...

 We saw the film about Roy Cohn yesterday afternoon.  Of course, it also is about Donald Trump - the Apprentice in the film title. Here'...

The Anchorage International Film Festival (AIFF) begins Friday, December 1, 2023 with a documentary about four time Iditarod winner, Lance...

 This cast has some of the biggest names of the day - Marlon Brandon, John Gielgud, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Greer Garson . . . From the ...

 Monday morning I biked over to the Century theater to see Amsterdam.  An odd hour to see a movie but that was the only time it was playing....

On April 27, 2007, the first paragraph of my post was: "The book was calling to me from the cabinet in the big open breakfast room of t...

Usually Saturday is really busy during the festival with films starting as early as 9 am some years.  But we've somehow gotten into a ro...

I'll try to keep this short.  Trying to write on something a little lighter than the elections. Think of it as notes to readers about Ne...

The State of Alaska removed the bus where Chris McCandless died and that has become a mecca for those who connected with Chris through the b...

Some thoughts raised by things I've recently read.  But first a note on paywalls. I understand that newspapers want online readers to ...

This is not what our front yard normally looks like in December.  And it was covered with snow a few days ago.  But then it got into the ...

As I wrote the title, I realized we never can catch up in life, but I was referring to little things like writing blog posts and paying the ...

Volodymyr Zelensky burst into many people's consciousness last week.  Some knew that he'd been a Ukrainian comedian with a hit TV sh...

Netflix was dangling The Great Hack in front of me, but I just didn't want to deal with more bad news.  Let's wait for a better time...

I follow  Kimani Okearah @theKimansta on Twitter.  He's a photographer for the Sacramento Kings.  Well, that's not exactly right.  ...

The title quote comes from Mary McNamara's beautifully ruthless* critique of "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood."  Her review hel...

After dropping the kids off at pre-school we wandered (foot and bus) around San Francisco.  Most of these pictures are on Clement, except fo...

When teaching ethics, I found this clip from The Godfather to be invaluable. What evidence is there here of a bribe?  I'm forgiv...

We just got back from a strange documentary film about Siberian native men who go searching for ancient  mammoth tusks in islands in the a...