Today's obscure movie: Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA. 1946 race movie based on Maugham's Rain. Cheap and weakly written but with some good performances. Francine Everett, below, is Gertie.

Today's obscure movie: Gasoline Alley (1951) based on the long-and-still running comic strip. The very cute Scotty Beckett, as Corky, makes this otherwise drab sit-comish B-film worth watching

New here. Currently in the middle of: Washington Square (H. James), The Magus (J. Fowles), The Barkeep and the Bro (A.J. Truman), Middlemarch (a re-read), Edith Hamilton's Mythology (3rd time may be the charm), House of Leaves (may not finish). #booksky

New here. Recently retired gay man (used to work in bookselling, library cataloging and teaching) with partner of 35 years (legally married for 10), loves classic movies (esp. TCM), books, 60s-80s pop rock. In retirement, working my way through 100s of books in the basement.

How accurate is the weather forecast in your city? Niko Kommenda and I learned that NWS just began doing gridded assessments of forecast accuracy. We got the data and mapped of how many days into the future they get within 3°F of the observed high temp. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...