Thursday, July 10, 2025

I Wonder If They Talked About This

Looking for some post wife-has-gone-to-bed fare, she doesn't like "artsy films", I put on Afterglow on the strength of it being an  Alan Rudolph film--he wrote and directed one of my all-time favorite films, Choose Me.

It wasn't as good as Choose Me, but reasonably good and starred Julie Christie, still beautiful at 56 years old, Nick Nolte, always good and Lara Flynn Boyle, who had a screen presence which suggested I should have seen her in a lot of things, but somehow hadn't.  I looked her up and she's been in tons of things, often things I would generally like, but just didn't see, like Twin Peaks.  In fairness, it was on in the era when you either had to have a VCR or be available when it aired.  I didn't even own a TV back then.

When I looked up Lara Flynn Boyle, I found a few things I would like to watch, like Red Rock West and picked up a bit of trivia.  She was supposedly named after a character from Dr. Zhivago.  One naturally wonders, if Boyle ever mentioned this to her co-star, who played Lara in the movie?

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Wednesday, July 02, 2025

CNNs Bot Army

 


809 likes!  Out of 63.5 million followers.  So, only one out of every 78 thousand followers liked this post.




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Monday, June 30, 2025

Washington and New England

I snipped these segments of map from Google maps at the same scale and then aligned them according to latitude.  Montreal Canada is about as far north as Portland Oregon.  I just eyeballed this, so they may not be exact, but probably within 10 miles.

All of Washington is north of all of New England, except for northern Maine.

45.500904, -73.601086
Montréal, QC, Canada

45.535319, -122.729544
Multnomah County, Oregon

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