Think I may switch Mastodon instances. I just set up a zirk.us account and will likely move this one.
James Callan
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I do parlor tricks with words. Moviegoer, cinephile. Handy on a trivia team. I take my iced tea very sour. UX at TrussWorks. (he/him)
Here's the mutiny I promised you.
And here's the party it turned into.
John Hodgman called my kids delightful in front of a podcast audience, in part based on their names, so that’s a high point.
I think I did not appreciate how good Mastodon is as a chance to completely rebuild the list of who I follow.
No shade intended but there are a few people here I did not miss when they left Twitter, and I feel less awkward just not re-following than I do unfollowing.
Just watched a video where the creator mentioned the Leidenfrost effect, but the captions render it as “light and frost” effect.
TikTik captions are an eggcorn machine.
Emily St. JamesI've seen eight movies off the Oscar Best Picture list this year (no All Quiet or Triangle of Sadness just yet), and they've all been quite good to quite great. As moviegoing recommendations go, the Oscars are better than usual. Pls see a movie or two, hopefully in a theater.
A friend gave me paid access to the Streaks app on iOS. Of course I immediately started streaks for brushing, flossing, and meditating.
More satisfying are four streaks I added a bit later:
* write a letter one a week (on paper! In the mail!)
* one meatless day a week
* two days a week with no red meat (the meatless day counts here)
* watch one foreign language movie a week (I usually watch 3-4 movies total)
Years without any movie in the Letterboxd Top 250 narrative features:
1932–35
1938
1939(!)
1941
1947
1951
1970
2005
1938 and 2005 have never had a movie in the top 250 in the history of the list.
Citizen Kane is no longer one of the Top 250 Narrative Features on Letterboxd. https://letterboxd.com/dave/list/official-top-250-narrative-feature-films/#comment-16803238…
Interesting to see folks on r/letterboxd debating whether or not that list is a canon (no, IMHO) and more broadly how to balance older art with new enthusiasms.
Curious if people feel more or less upset by this than by Kane slipping to #3 on on the Sight & Sound list.
Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films
Letterboxd's Top 250 movies, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users. I removed all stand-up specials, stage plays, concert films, documentaries, shorts, 'collection listings', re-edits and other 'rarities', so only feature length narrative movies are listed here. Films should have a minimum of 15,000 ratings to be eligible to enter the list. As a sister to this list, we also have a Top 100 films with less than 15,000 ratings, so be sure to check out the more obscure gems there! My friend Jack Moulton made a list of Letterboxd Top 250 documentaries, go check it out!…
Making more ice cream.
Today: Jeni’s ice cream base, Russian caravan tea flavor.