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I had some kitchen tasks to do - preparing some meals, baking a bread - so I asked Netflix for music and they gave me tick tick Boom as th...

[Guide to this post:  This post reminds me of the rambling posts I used to do regularly.  And it feels good, because the world is tangled up...

  If you walk the path along Venice Beach, you'll come across the skateboard park.   Skateboards first appeared along the beaches of Sou...

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 ...