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  • Diamond slot formation

    Diamond slot formation

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    I’ve no idea if the BBC’s adaptation of His Dark Materials got a substantial injection of budget for its third (and final) season. The series is suddenly able to commit to visuals that were frustratingly missing or inconsistent in the first two years. Daemons are now onscreen almost as much as their human counterparts. Harpies…

  • You aren’t the audience for your favourite thing

    You aren’t the audience for your favourite thing

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    Here’s something that occurred to me while watching Willow, which improved marginally since the last time I wrote about it (but still had some pretty incredible errors in judgment, stylewise): it was never meant for me. It’s pretty revolutionary for any cis white man to realize that he’s not the point in any given conversation,…

  • Some basic rules for scheduling

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  • 30 days of

    30 days of

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    January, man. Always a disaster. Just pulls the life right out of you, day by day and hour by hour, at a time when you didn’t have much life to put into the thing to begin with. Dim sunrise that never happens by weak dusk that feels like it was never any brighter in the…

  • The Crimes of Skywalker

    The Crimes of Skywalker

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    I went to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when it came out — too many times. I had social commitments I couldn’t reneg without feeling weird about it; plus, that overall sense that even bad Star Wars is worth studying, and a part of the family besides. After that first weekend, though, I…

  • 2022

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    The year the pandemic finally got me. The year I finally got out of the country. The year I took refuge. The year I found my white whale. The year I saw the sun set on the Nile. The year I gave up on Star Wars. The year Star Wars brought me back. The year…

  • The best films of 2022

    The best films of 2022

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    I wonder when they’ll get around to doing a Letterboxd embed for WordPress. Well, until then, here are my twenty favourite films of the year, including category nominations. These will go into my OFCS ballot this week.

  • Samantha

    Samantha

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    I have given a name to my pain, and it is Samantha I don’t know why Samantha. The referent most often in my head, since Samantha became persistent enough to deserve naming, is of course Samantha Micelli from Who’s The Boss, but even as I write this I realize that the more likely source of…

  • Quitter

    Quitter

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    I’ve started a project — actually, four projects — in various stages of formfulness, and the result is, anytime I sit down to write, it’s more opportune to work on one of them than to write anything internet-facing — which in the post-Twitter world means this blog, cuz I can’t make any of the other…

  • The Ramen Dream

    The Ramen Dream

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    I started having the ramen dream, I am fairly sure, during the pandemic. If not, it would have started fairly close-to. Certainly, I was having the ramen dream sometime after the second time I visited Japan, in March/April 2019. Equally certainly, before the ramen dream, I would have told you that recurring dreams were the…