That, as they say, is a wrap. I saw 127 films, with a total running time of 229 hours and 2 minutes, on the big screen in 2025. Of those, 92, with a total running time of 166 hours and 39 minutes, were at @hollywoodtheatre.org.

Hey, @opb.org—I see you're having a membership / fundraising drive at the moment. This sustaining member won't be increasing his support until he sees an agreement regarding contracts between you and @opbkmhdcreators.bsky.social.

@hollywoodtheatre.org Before Lady Snowblood, Chloe told people not to talk + also not to whisper as people can still hear you. THANK YOU! I'm so tired of people talking + whispering during films. Maybe you could add her "enjoy yourself but shut up!" comment to the end of the "no phones" intro thing.

Sigh. Portland Public Schools send out a notice to parents that URLs for ParentVue and StudentVue are changing. The instructions are given in a completely inaccessible image-only PDF. Pretty sure that's an ADA Title II issue.

Went to my first panto in a long, long time. Gotta say that the Portland Panto Players did an amazing job. Definitely going back next year. (oh yes I am…)

With independent record shops continuing to struggle, Iron Maiden making the 40th anniversary vinyl edition of Live After Death a Walmart exclusive in the US is a cruel decision by two businesses that don't need the money.

What's like @ynabofficial.bsky.social but without the newly-added awful UI that's getting worse every release? I've tried Monarch and Copilot Money, but they want me to add emojis to everything I create. Literally can't add a savings goal without adding an emoji to the goal title. So those are out.

@hollywoodtheatre.org Hello. Sometimes at the end of the night, on the tables near the entrance, there are free bags of popcorn and a post-it note saying Free Corn. Have you considered replacing the post-it with a large cardboard cutout of Missy Elliott with a speech bubble saying Get Ur Free Corn?

Big one here, gang. This list is the culmination of many things—8 years of reporting on local film, diving into Oregon film history during the pandemic, getting obsessed with Kelly Reichardt (though anyone can and should do that.) Thanks for the space, WW.

@hollywoodtheatre.org This week makes it 52 weeks in a row seeing something at The Hollywood. I've seen 90 films there since last November. (If I'd thought about this more, I would have snagged all the running times. Maybe I'll start.)

@sigurros.com at The Moda Center tonight: if you were the woman behind us who told the corporate box full of very loud men to "shut the fuck up", then thank you :) It's usually me having to do that & I'm tired of it. Also, the nearby usher grinned and said they pay $19.75 an hour if you wanted a job

On this day 55 years ago, blubber went boom at the Oregon Coast. That's when officials made the legendary decision to blow up a dead whale. Here's a look back at the explosive piece of Oregon lore with a 2020 story by OPB's Tiffany Camhi written ahead of the whale of a tale's 50th anniversary.

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social Hi! It looks like Apple subscribers to Fish aren't getting the new longer episodes—is that correct? EG: Ep.607 Apple paid subscription is ~54mins, but Patreon is 1h02m. Is that a glitch or is that why you've only mentioned new benefits WRT Patreon recently? Thanks :)

Letterboxd Visits the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon 📽️ 🎞️ Watch the full visit: boxd.it/cN0 Madeleine Criglow, Matt Cunningham and Dan Halsted talk about the landmark cinema's film programming, projection booths, pipe organ and more.

@hollywoodtheatre.org Hey :) As someone planning my next few weeks of film going: are you really not showing the new Kelly Reichardt film?

If Apple's mandated RTO is what gave us liquid glass, that's an exceptionally strong argument that RTO achieves almost nothing in terms of quality improvement. Less than a year until iOS 27 and hopefully much less liquid glass. Preferably none, but that's not going to happen, I assume.

Urgh. Ex-colleague posted a pro-Kirk comment on LinkedIn. I was trying to pinch and zoom the UI on my phone, but accidentally tapped the like button. Instantly tapped it again and then unfollowed him, but am mildly panicking that LinkedIn will send a "reacted to a post" email to a load of people.

Simon Pegg: "Sometimes entertainment is an overrated function of art. Sometimes being made uncomfortable is the point." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr...

For some reason, @bsky.app thinks I live in the UK so is demanding I verify my age. Except, I live in the US and have done for over a decade. There doesn't seem to be a way to get them to correct their inaccurate data. Awesome work. Really impressive.

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social Hi :) The next time you do Hendrix facts, you could consider doing one on how he spelled his name Jimi rather than, say, Jimmy :)

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

This week is 100 weeks in a row seeing a film on the big screen. It's also 36 weeks in a row seeing something at @hollywoodtheatre.org. Tonight, it's Cooley High: hollywoodtheatre.org/show/cooley-...

@hollywoodtheatre.org Hey :) This is an oddly specific time for Weapons! I can’t work out if it’s meant to be 2pm something else.

There's one fewer crazy train going off the rails tonight :(

@hollywoodtheatre.org Bleak Week was excellent. I hope you do it again next year, but, uh, no Salo next time :) Some Mike Leigh would be good, though. He's definitely had some bleak films.

"An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." (www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...) I mean, sure, as long as you haven't seen them live anytime in the past ~35 years.

Apparently it's World Goth Day today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vzi...

This year's "if I'd known about this album last year, it would have been in my favourite albums list" award goes to Party Dozen's Crime In Australia. Amazing album. Video contains strobing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoK...

It's okay to not believe in encores, but it's not really okay to play for an hour when you have three albums out.

Good grief. I was just listening to a podcast on @nytimes.com audio app called "everyone is cheating their way through college".

Seeing Momma last night really brought home how much we need a new Veruca Salt album. Preferably a really heavy, angry one.

Disappointed to see that Lorde and Lord Dying, both playing Portland in the next few months, aren't touring together.

Time to start sporadically checking gybe.bootleg.fm in the hope that last night's amazing Wonder Ballroom gig was bootlegged.

Happy Wars Star day for those using a non-ridiculous date format.

@letterboxd.social Hi. Your survey that just got sent out: your social media accounts usage questions needed a "I've never used it" option. I used the "no change" option but that hides the lack of usage.

@fluffandgravy.bsky.social Hey :) I got my copy of the new Kassi Valazza vinyl yesterday and you added a copy of the latest Angelica Rockne album. What an amazing record! I grabbed a digital copy and will get her other releases soon.

The lack of age ratings on @letterboxd.social is frustrating. My use case: I took my son to see Arrival at the weekend and he loved it. So I went to look for similar things that are age appropriate. Not being able to filter by age rating (MPA in the US, BBFC in the UK, etc.) makes this harder.

1. Open a @nytimes.com article in their iOS app. 2. Start to read, but get irritated by the ridiculous amount of ads they have. 3. Hit the Copy Link button. 4. Open the article in Safari. 5. Can now read and concentrate on the article sans ads. The amount of ads subscribers have to endure is insane

Picked up the Thin Lizzy "Jailbreak Alternate Version" Record Store Day album this morning. Saw a car with the license plate THNLZY on the way home from the cinema this evening.

For the cost of an annual “everything” subscription to the New York Times, the amount of adverts is ridiculous.

I wrote about the death of my father substack.com/home/post/p-...

Woo! It took a long time and a lot of people working on this, but the significant update to WCAG's Reflow criterion Understanding Document is out: www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/U...

Oh nice. Found a bootleg of the GY!BE show at The Roseland I went to. That was the first gig I went to with covid on the decline. archive.org/details/gybe...

@yogsothothrules.bsky.social Hey :) Not sure if / when you'll see this, but hoping we'll bump into each other at OMSI for some more sci-fi. If you ever fancy meeting up for a coffee or something, let me know. It would be interesting to talk more about tech, films, culture, and whatever else.

Introduced a family Priority Of Constituencies for conflicts. The cat is not understanding that it is at the bottom of the list of priorities, so no matter how much it wants to go outside, it'll have to wait. www.w3.org/TR/html-desi...

Monday again. Just looked up how many Mondays there has been since I was born. Thousands of depressing starts to the week.

@nytwirecutter.bsky.social Hi! I don't think you've done thermal imaging cameras yet. My use case is, uh, finding fresh dog poop in the park in winter when it's still dark outside.

Having to use VoiceOver in GarageBand to work out what some mysteriously-iconed buttons do. Hooray for them having accessible names.

Sigh. I can only make one of the films in @hollywoodtheatr.bsky.social's David Lynch retrospective. Having some on the Monday and Tuesday would have been ideal. Ho hum.

@kevinpowell.co Very nice new support for some CSS features in the just released Safari Technology Preview 215: anchor positioning, scroll driven animations, and text-wrap-style: pretty. developer.apple.com/documentatio... And now we wait for them to be added to "Safari Proper".