Mandela effect kicking in.

News coming later this week: Google ordered again to update its maps.

Slowly turning true.

Many thanks to @cathcullen.bsky.social for having me on air on CBC Radio's The House today to discuss the possible ripple effects of Canada PM Mark Carney's China trip on U.S.-Canada trade ties www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

MLK day reflection: about 11% of people in the USA currently self-identify as multiracial. It is not just due to more interracial relationships, but also more acceptance of one's mixed heritage (and findings from all those geneology websites). Societal approval of interracial marriages is at 96%.

Am I the only one who laughed at the logo of #Skydance coming up at the beginning and end of the new version of #TheRunningMan ?

If for 1 year consistently 70% of people in the USA have polled opposing a theoretical US invasion of Canada, Gaza, Venezuela, Greenland (x 2), and Iran, I doubt that a focus group suggested that they wpuld prefer instead an invasion of #Minnesota .

I have plenty of conspiracy theories as to why Neon buried the brilliant #TheLifeofChuck to instead promote the cliche-filled thoroughly mediocre stripper fantasy/russian oligarch 'comedy' "Anora", an already forgotten film. Go watch Mark Hamill shine in Mike Flanagan's multi-genre King movie.

Before #ScottAdams took a bitter turn in his final.years. he created a hero for the cubicle culture. I reclaim #Dilbert from The Pointy Haired Boss who misappropriated the strip and have him return back to white collar workers.

Nikki Glazer's skewering of the state of #podcasts at the Golden Globes was hilarious: celebrities with inane topics and the Bombas ads.

The art of photogrpahy within cinema. The nominees for the 2025 American Society of Cinematography Award and their Spotlight Award for work in lesser known films. Frankenstein, Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme The Plague, Arum, Orphan (Árva).

Good riddance #AldrichAmes .

Thank you and farewell, #CorporationforPublicBroadcasting .

At 916,445 km² (353,842mi²) #Venezuela is much larger than Afghanistan, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, South Viet Nam, South Korea, Japan, West Germany, Cuba, and the Philippines. With the exception of Japan in 1945, at 29 people plus 7.9 m refugees, it is also more populous than those at #USoccupation.

Theory: #OneBattleAfterAnother is #PaulThomasAnderson trying to make the ultimate #CoenBrothers movie.

#Records turning 50 years old.this year. It includes classics from #Rush #Aeromsith #ACDC #Kiss , Boston, Chicago, #BobMarley #DavidBowie and The Eagles' #HotelCalifornia . Also the debuts of #TheRamones , #Blondie #TomPettyandtheHeaetbreakers and #DianaRoss .

Happy New Year 2026! A reminder that everything from 1976 is now 50.years old, everything from 1986 (your hair metal album collection) is 40.years old, 1996 stuff is 30.years old (primitive internet arguing over "ID4"), and your iPod-ruled 2006 culture is 20 years old.

Some of what I read in 2025. #books

See you out somewhere in the cosmos. #GilGerard. He was cool as #BuckRogers in all 3 languages in which I watched his show growing up.

Last Christmas, I survived #Whamageddon . This year, can't save me some tears: with a week to go, I got whammed at a coffeeshop.

Few filmmakers have contriubuted as much to US culture (consider it pop or otherwise) than the recently departed #RobReiner. Movie quotes, expressions ("bucket list"), subgenres, and films preserved in the National Library of Congress. I'll have what he was having.

#KnivesOut previously satirized home care and pseudo-billionaire tech bros. In "Wake Up Dead Man' #RianJohnson skewers Catholicism that is subverted to preach the opposite and weaponized for greed and politics, while also showing the human side of faith support. More #BenoitBlanc please.

#ImmersiveFilms nominated to the #ProducersGuildofAmerica 2025 Innovation award #VR: "Asteroid", Google XR. "D Day the Camera Soldier": Apple Vision Pro. "Territory", VR, Kinetic Light Amphiteater: "Big Wave, No Room for Error": Cosm Los Angeles. "Wizard of Oz at the Sphere": The Sphere.

For #photography fans, an interesting colection of photos of 2025. www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-p...

#NoahBaumach needs to hug his dad or something. #JayKelly again covers his recurrent theme of fathers who are emotionally absent or dysfunctional due to their inflated ego or career. This time he covers 3 fatherhoods. It works, though.

A remedy for the #lonelinessepidemic, if it indeed exists: ignore #haitbate about politics and pop culture. You may find that you can connect on music, movies, sports, and food tastes, as well as daily experiences, with those who are on 'the other side' of the hate-triggering issues and non-issues.

The only advantage of it being unusually #cold and icy in early December in northeastern USA (colder than Iceland, Greenland, Finland, and Chicago): it makes for cool Christmas event pictures. #coldwave

#GoldenGlobes 2025 nominations slightly surprise with a high amount of non-USA films, and 3 latino actors: #WagnerMoura (for brazilian "The Secret Agent"), #OscarIsaac ("Frankenstein"), and #BenicioDelToro (supporting actor, "One Battle After Another). #movies

#MovieAwards season has started. #TheNationalBoardofReview and #NewYorkFilmCriticsCircle both rewarded "One Battle After Another", Benicio Del Toro and Rose Byrne. Some love for horror movies. Split on DiCaprio and Wagner Moura.

Uses of my neighbor's small bird feeder. 1. Feed deer. 2. Feed wild turkey strutting around the burbs with 'nyah nyah you didn't get me' after Thanksgiving.

Not to be a Netflix ad, but philosophical "Train Dreams" has this year's best #cinematography (lensed by Adolpho Veloso). A good engaging, medidative movie overall. #TrainDreams

I would have never predicted that Udo Kier and Jimmy Cliff would leave together.

#EuropeanFilmAward noms: Sentimental Value, It Was Just An Accident, Sound of Falling, Sirât, The Voice of Hind Rajab; Arco, Dog of God, Little Amelie, Olivia & the Invisible Earthquake, Tales From the Magic Garden; Afternoons of Solitude, Song of Slow Burning Earth, Riefenstahl, With Hazan in Gaza.

Those who yearn for a return of the culture of 500 years ago, a reminder that, lack of indoor plumbing aside, there was a belief in dangerous Sea Cows and trees that bred ducks.

#NovelleVague fillm: 1) the filiming of "Breathless" ("Un Boute de Souffle") mirrors director #RichardLinklater 's own indie movie shoots. 2) #JeanLucGodard is depicted like #EdWood in Tim Burton's bio, and #TommyWiseau in "The Disaster Artist". Stylish fun.

The finalists of the 2025 National Book Award in Fiction and Nonfiction. #NationalBookAward #books #novels

Netflix's #DeathbyLightning is a good show about US President Garfield and his hanger-on groupie who became his assassin. But the odd title is probably because " #Garfield and Friends" was already taken.

For those who know me: aside from writing about movies, places, mental health, history/sociology and 'futbol', I most recently set aside an IG to review music albums, mostly newer releases. www.instagram.com/over_recorded

Where to watch the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary winners: Netflix: "The Perfect Neghbor" "Becoming Led Zeppelin" Disney+/Hulu: "Oceans", "Hurricane Katrina...", "Sly Lives!" AppleTV: "Mr Scorcese" HBO Max: "My Mom Jayne", "The Alabama Solution" PBS: "The American Revolution" Rent: "Orwell: 2+2=5"

2nd attempt at Blue Skying. The other one crashed and burned. Fresh start.