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Detroit ex-pat, playwright, distantly related to the captain of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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A ranking of the movies I watched flying across the Atlantic and back, on a trip just completed:
1 “Caught Stealing”
2 “Sinners”
3 “Weapons”
4 “One Battle After Another”

02.03.2026 00:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy to share that tickets for our Edinburgh festival production of my new play "The Problem" are now on sale. Check us out at Assembly on George Street. Tix and info: assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/165...

09.02.2026 22:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Marianne Werefkin, "Skaters," 1911.

06.02.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An idiotic and counterproductive tactic.

19.01.2026 18:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This Patriots-Texans game has so many turnovers it should be sponsored by Pillsbury.

18.01.2026 22:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With apologies, but this language -- "EMILY IN PARIS affords epistemological priority to Emily" -- sounds like someone's parody of an N+1 piece.

22.12.2025 17:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
England's Carol
England's Carol YouTube video by The Modern Jazz Quartet - Topic

A nice one for the season.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH45...

21.12.2025 19:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boeing 777 Loses Power After Takeoff – Captain Steeeve Reacts to Dulles Emergency
Boeing 777 Loses Power After Takeoff – Captain Steeeve Reacts to Dulles Emergency YouTube video by Captain Steeeve

Another interesting one from Captain Steeeve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQN...

19.12.2025 18:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bootsey X and the Lovemasters - (Santa's Got A) Bomb for Whitey (Original)
Bootsey X and the Lovemasters - (Santa's Got A) Bomb for Whitey (Original) YouTube video by Rory Nickele

As always this time of year, I await Christmas carolers to arrive at the door singing this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOnp...

14.12.2025 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice one.

10.12.2025 16:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered)
Don't Look Back In Anger (Remastered) YouTube video by Oasis - Topic

Today's ear-worm. ("You said the brains I had went to my head.") www.youtube.com/watch?v=oplr...

09.12.2025 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yes, please.

01.12.2025 17:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From a house listing. Not how I'd arrange my living room.

29.11.2025 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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26.11.2025 18:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oskar Kokoschka, "Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac," 1910.

22.11.2025 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague" -- very enjoyable.

20.11.2025 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On the revolver today, this fine LP.

19.11.2025 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I agree re Morck. I'm hoping they evolve him away from that cliche, which it seems like they will.

19.11.2025 18:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm forgetting what happens in individual episodes, but the show gets better as the other characters develop, specifically Rose, Akram, and DCI James.

19.11.2025 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It grew on me with each episode.

19.11.2025 14:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which reminds me that a friend of mine once described D.H. Lawrence as "either the worst good writer or the best bad writer."

18.11.2025 15:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From a German production of my play "The House" ("Das Haus)

18.11.2025 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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18.11.2025 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Glad this is coming back for a second season.

17.11.2025 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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17.11.2025 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A favorite place.

16.11.2025 13:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The book is still in copyright.

14.05.2025 19:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Typo corrected.

14.05.2025 16:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0