Category Archives: arts

David Bowie

Posted on Wednesday, 2025 April 02 by Anton

Somehow I never had anything by David Bowie in my collection (other than a German version of “Heroes” on some sampler album, and “Under Pressure” on the Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack) until recently when I picked up Best of Bowie … Continue reading →

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Single White Female

Posted on Thursday, 2025 January 02 by Anton

A key scene in the above-titled flick cannot work unless the two leads have very similar breasts; and now I’m curious about the casting process.

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rolling top hits

Posted on Friday, 2023 April 07 by Anton

Rhino Records made a series of CDs of Billboard Top Ten songs for various years. I wonder, if you summed every sequence of 52 consecutive weeks, how many songs would show in those Rolling Top Tens that never made a … Continue reading →

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someone please make this movie

Posted on Saturday, 2023 March 25 by Anton

I have a very vague – call it abstract – memory of watching the beginning of this movie, but it seems not to exist, so I guess it was a dream. The main character is a spy’s only daughter. Daddy … Continue reading →

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RDCB

Posted on Thursday, 2023 March 02 by Anton

A generation ago, it was reported that Readers Digest Condensed Books planned an edition of The Bible, provoking obvious jokes that it would cut three Commandments and four Apostles. Now that I’m reading the thing, though, I do see where … Continue reading →

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a question of aspect

Posted on Tuesday, 2022 October 25 by Anton

The refrain of P. F. Sloan’s song “Let Me Be” (recorded by the Turtles) concludes, I am what I am and that’s all I ever can be. Defiance or fatalism?

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toon trek

Posted on Tuesday, 2022 September 27 by Anton

A few years ago I decided, having got behind and lost the thread of my favorite webcomics, to start them over; and then developed a more quixotic ambition: to sample as many webcomics as I can find and, more daunting, … Continue reading →

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