Mexico production has shot up since the original China tariffs. There's even a Tesla plant there (or it's being built at least): wonder how President Elon is gonna take that.. That's been yet another of the many weird things (I know, I know, wiser FMs keep trying to teach me not to bother with the ...

Some more thoughts . . . With Chaplin, The Circus might be a good starting point. It’s not his most brilliant movie, but it’s his funniest. The shorts “One Week” or “The Goat” might also be better starting points for Buster Keaton. And while you’re doing shorts, some of the Fatty Arbuckle ones are e...

When our kids were that age, more or less, during the Covid lockdown, we did a big cinema project, wherein we made a list of 30-some movies and watched them over time. We didn’t get through every single movie, but they had so much fun that they asked us to do a second, similar list a couple years la...

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Fuck these people are evil.

25% tariffs on all goods from Mexico and Canada, 10% on goods from China. No listed exemptions so far, though they’re likely for oil and gas.

https://gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-to-scrub-website-of-words-like-transgender-and-lgbt-2000557177 Something I’ve thought about a lot lately is how, when Trump first ran in 2016, he was not anti-trans. He even remarked during one of the debates that, at his properties, people could use whatever bathroo...

I mean, we make an exception for that, and before you know it, the cruise ship band is sneaking “California Girls” into the set between “Wonderwall” and “The Pina Colada Song.” (In truth, the performance last night was kinda joyous. I’ve only gone to the Thursday Green Mill performance a couple time...

jfv wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:44 am

Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:39 am

enframed wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:33 am

"Let's make it a rule."

Yes!

Fuck, does that include "You Really Got Me"?

Sort of think an exception is needed there.

Yes. Rules are rules.

We can’t just start making exceptions!

enframed wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 9:33 am

Wood Goblin wrote: Fri Jan 31, 2025 8:56 am You’re not allowed to play a cover once David Lee Roth has done it. “Pretty Woman,” “Happy Trails,” “Just a Gigolo”—not in your repertoire.

"Let's make it a rule."

Yes!

After our dance class, my wife headed home and I met some friends at the Green Mill to watch the big band. Toward the end of their first set, they played “That’s Life” even though David Lee Roth already recorded the definitive version of it on 1986’s Eat ‘Em and Smile! (Also, the original came out i...

On Sirk, if you ain't seen Carol by Todd Haynes, it's an excellent Sirk homage ala Far From Heaven, maybe marginally less obviously so, just as good a film And to bring things full circle, Carol is an adaptation of The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, who (of course) wrote the Ripley novels. An...