Brigitte Bardot had my most-listened-to song this year: La madrague. I only discovered it this yr, looking for French songs as part of trying to learn French. It’s a fun & easy groove to get into; but also the French is clean, easy to hear, and not at an insanely fluent level. Je le recommanderais.

Also, I can report that searching on BlueSky for “unzipped” is an adventure I should have foreseen

Seemed unlikely after early searches failed but: I can’t find the ‘95 Isaac Mizrahi doc UNZIPPED streaming anywhere. Even to rent. Or snuck onto YouTube!

There’s an alternate prompt where I can quote reply The Earrings of Croque Madame de …

#LetterboxdFriday et aussi #LastFourWatched. Somehow hadn’t seen ELF until just this week. I know!

Christmas gift from my 25 yr old. I raised them right I think!

Maybe my favorite annual tradition is now underway: a quick espresso and then stocking up for Christmas Eve at Cossetta’s

[Me — a, like, totally solid and righteous Gen X’er — opening this, my team’s Secret Santa gift to me] Of course you know this means war

Twin Cities sunset alert. Look west, ye neighbors!

See, this is what the internet and social apps are for. Spouse and I saw WAKE UP DEAD MAN last night, interest is sparked, holidays coming up … Next day I see this author being boosted on here. Boom!, easiest book/gift purchase (“Gets Her Man”) I’ve ever made!

Minneapolis this morning

Your Grain Belt Beer sign in the snow video

Holy mackerel MrsStPaul just went scouting and returned with a visual. And there’s two!

Since this place is the sane FB Neighborhood Page, I need to share that there is an owl hooting up a storm in #MacGroveland right now. Somewhere near like Wellesley & Kenneth. Definitely not the St Kate’s owl from … last year? Or maybe the same owl but they’ve moved north a little. #BirdSky #Owl

Me being led into the Bluesky Christmas party

My favorite movie moment from November 2025: On an airplane watching FANTASTIC MR FOX, and a pilot announcement came on and froze the screen right when Kylie the possum gets zoned out. 😂

Organizing my stuff & came across these DVDs, bought from street vendors in Wan Chai when we lived in Hong Kong (2007-2011) IF YOU ARE THE ONE (unopened) ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE ROMAN HOLIDAY MOGAMBO Thought I’d ask here if anyone has any interest in these before I get rid of them. Questions ok!

Footage of the couple trying to distract the driver of the weird yet precious food cargo:

Just getting over a cold so I checked out early last night and was asleep in no time. Came downstairs this morning to find that somebody was working late on _this_! Mrs StPaul’s world-best pecan pie. Yes I guess I knew she was making it; but it’s still quite a thing to find on your counter.😎

(from Ocean’s 14) [Al Pacino] Apple pie is bad. [Elliott Gould] 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦?!

“IIIIIII’m sail-ingggg a-wayyyyyyyyeee”

Yes, it’s almost impossible. 😅 So I’m going by my Letterboxd rankings, which only include movies I’ve seen since I joined in 2015: A Room With a View Blow Out Repo Man Victor/Victoria (*huge* apologies to Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You’re on this list 90% of the time.)

See this, this is what the internet is for 👏👏👏

All from right at the top of my LBox ratings, it’s not a bit!

My top 5 movie genres are: 1) a pig learns to herd sheep 2) a rat learns to cook 3) a llama learns to— hang on a sec

A note on my #LetterboxdFriday / #LastFourWatched — All four were seen on a plane. I’m always more receptive to movies on a plane, I don’t know why that is. Is it because it’s similar to the past when you had to watch whatever was on / couldn’t be so picky? Maybe so, maybe so.

Same thing in Saint Paul. Unbelievable! (Thanks for posting, Sara. I usually assume you can only see these with a fancy lens or something and normally don’t go look. Glad I did!)

"It's time to take out the garbage!" I hissed, while taking out the garbage.

You’ve heard over & over how it sucked living under the constant barrage of how awesome Boomers were. But the 92 Clinton pres run was that X 1,000 — and then Fleetwood Mac literally came out of retirement to play his inauguration! That, for me, cemented them as avatars of all that. What can I say!

Lino Ventura? Billy Joel? Henri Matisse?

Guess who I bumped into in the park in Nice?

Interrupting my Provence-a-thon with this #SaintPaulMN #pupdate. Zelda says “they’re getting the boards up at #GrovelandPark!”

[me beforehand] Sure, we can spend a late afternoon at the abandoned chateau at Le Baux. We’ll see if it’s overrated I guess. [me later that day] 🤯🤯🤯

The famous bell tower of the Church of St Jean of Malta in Aix-en-Provence, looking sharp tonight after some autumnal rains

Shohei Ohtani hits a huge 3 to cut the lead down to 42

A very bonne and geniale #LetterboxdFriday 📽️ to you! My #LastFourWatched was a *journey* let me tell you.

Gonna take advantage of the post lunch lull to say: Last night I watched Behind Convent Walls on The Criterion Channel; I thought I was prepared for Behind Convent Walls; I was not prepared.

[Bob Marley voice] 🎶WHO robbed the LOU-VRE?🎶

Hold on now, we might have ourselves a reprieve!

I’m not saying I’ve watched this hundreds and hundreds of times. But I am saying that I own the sheet music.

Can one say whether Zelda is excited about a walk in 48F/9C rain? It’s unclear.

I learned in Edmund Wilson’s diaries that he liked holding Edna St. Vincent Millay’ sweaty stocking feet after she been out walking because they felt like little warm cream cheeses and I think you have to know as well

My #LastFourWatched here on a sunny October #LetterboxdFriday. Priceless and Double Life and Killer Nun were all on the same day, home sick from work. It was a journey! 😅

Just added another “that goes right up there with the Kim Novak in the red restaurant” profile shot to my film memory

Describe your Bluesky account with a single image

Just yelled “Girl bye!” so loud my dog came and checked on me

Time to check the ol’ in-bAAAAIIIEEEEEEEEEEE

Good news everybody the end of the rainbow is our garage #mnwx #macgroveland #saintpaulmn

Sweet guinea pigs do it; Buy a couple and wait