Just saw The Best Years of Our Lives, which I recommend. Like many movies prior to around 1970, it features a lot of cheery, well-mannered alcoholism. You can get it public domain on archive.org.

I just saw The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on Amazon Prime. I’d like to like it more. 🍿: https://www.chrisdeluca.me/note/1574308753/

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I just saw The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie on Amazon Prime. I’d like to like it more.

Saw Jojo Rabbit, and it’s fantastic. Hilarious, touching, poignant, hilarious. That’s 3 for 3 for Taika Waititi. Do yourself a favor and go see it.

🍿 I saw #DolomiteIsMyName this weekend and I really enjoyed it. Eddie Murphy is great in it, but can we all agree that Wesley Snipes is a complete assassin? Super fun performance.

🍿 I just saw Spartacus for the first time. Amazing to think that the same director is responsible for Spartacus, 2001, Dr Strangelove, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

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I just saw North by Northwest for the first time. We watched most of the movie two nights ago, then finished it the next day, making the ending even more abrupt. 🍿

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🍿 I saw On The Waterfront for the first time the other day. Spoiler alert: it’s good. Also, set in Hoboken! Still, I was surprised how much of the plot revolved around re-routed PATH trains.

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This is what I’ve been reading this past week.

• Admissions Scandal Shows Elite Schools’ Self-Importance - The Atlantic
  A think piece from a Yale professor refocusing on what the point of universities are, although the bit at the end about not being ashamed of admitting wealthy donors kids for their money is never going to fly.
• hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooorse
  I’m honestly heartened when I see goofy, pointless stuff like this on the web again.
• List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  McSweeny’s swoops in once more for the win.
• List: If Conservatives Talked About Other Issues the Way They Talk About Climate Change - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
  Nailed it.
• ‘Centurians of Rome’: How a Bank Robber Made the Most Expensive Gay Porno Flick of All Time
  Engrossing long form about a gay, Cuban-American overachiever, and one time anti-gay crusader’s life of crime.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

This is what I’ve been reading this past week.

• Using CSS Grid the right way | hey it’s violet
  Some good tips.
• Alyssa Rosenzweig – The Federation Fallacy
  Convincing take on the democratization of a centralized internet, versus a decentralized one.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

This is what I’ve been reading this past week.

• Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry
  A thinky, verbose literary analysis of what ingredients writers bring to their work, and how those best interact. Focused pointedly on poetry, but I think it has value for anyone working creatively with the written word.
• Jessie Frazelle’s Blog: Government. Medicine. Capitalism?
  What the software industry can learn from government and medicine, and generally good thoughts on management.
• Remembering The Grateful Dead’s ‘Wall of Sound’: An Absurd Feat of Technological Engineering
  Another story about The Dead I didn’t think I’d enjoy, but here we are.
• Write code that is easy to delete
  Great article on software design, but I think the broad principles are applicative to many creative fields, as well.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

These are some choice picks from what I’ve been reading for the past few weeks.

I hope to publish these link round-ups weekly, but for this first one I have a backlog of saved links, so this one has more links then will be usual.

• Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
  If you’re into reading about weirdo conspiracy theories, inter dimensional travel, and/or New Jersey, this is a must.
• Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide” - Kev Quirk
  Puts the importance of privacy in plain, effecting language.
• CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild
  Very cool recreation of the first web browser, written for NeXT.
• Prof. Dr. Style
  A fun look at the very early web design, and how bullet-proof it is still.
• Was the Godfather of Soul murdered?
  Completely gripping, totally chilling. I was captivated.
• The Transitive Nightfall of Fatty Egg Rolls
  I’m strangely enthralled by this tale of bygone Deadhead egg rolls, from a bygone website.
• A brief history of wi-fi privacy vulnerabilities | Robert Heaton
  A fascinating look at one of the underpinnings of modern life.

There it is, and here we are. Go forth.

It’s like if Humphrey Bogart and Tina Fey had a baby.
—Stephen Spielberg

Folks, it is my distinct pleasure, honor, and plonor¹ to announce the release of The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I., a scripted serial comedy podcast I wrote and created with my partner Daniel Contreras. In fact, not only is the show released, all six episodes in this season are out right now, so you can binge the whole thing.

However convincing the above has been in getting you to blindly subscribe to something on the internet, you may still have some questions.

What Is This Crap?

Rude, but I’ll allow it.

The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I. is a scripted comedy podcast. That means it’s not people talking about their re-watch of some 90’s sitcom, or discussions about something educational. While those are all awesome shows, The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I. is carefully written, and performed by talented actors, like a TV show, but for your ears.

The show is a pastiche of film noir set in New York City, and follows a junior detective, Gwen Gween, as she cracks cases and searches for her lost parents amidst a world gone mad. If that doesn’t sound exciting, then check your adrenal glands. If that doesn’t sound funny, then just listen for a few minutes and we’ll hopefully prove your doubting ass wrong.

This is a serialized show, so you need to listen to each episode in succession to understand the plot. That may sound like a lot more work, but you already do it for every HBO show and it really just means there’s jokes that reference other jokes.

Why Should I Care?

Because if you’re reading this, chances are, this show is for you.

If you like dark stories about a dark town told with a dark sense of humor and farts, you should subscribe. If you like word play, gun play, horse play, and ass play, you should subscribe. If you like finding out about something cool before everyone else does and then being really pompous about it when all your friends start talking about it two years later, you should subscribe. If you’ve read this far in this article, come on, you should subscribe.

Where Can I Get It?

So glad you asked!

You can find The Pulp Tales of Gwendolyn Gween, P.I. on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or where ever you listen to podcasts, and you can find all the links and more information at our website.

Also, you can follow us on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, where we post a lot more pictures and videos about the show.

Finally, keep tabs on duncecap.nyc, our production company website, for more sweet stuff in the very near future.

Wrap It Up

I’m really proud of this show, and I think you’re really going to like it. If you do enjoy it, tell a friend. If you don’t, keep your yap shut.

Stay badass, and thanks!

I recently saw Titicut Follies, the 1969 documentary film about the harrowing conditions in a Massachusetts prison for the criminally insane. The movie was banned by the state of Massachusetts until …

At the museum of the moving image waiting to see 2001: A Space Odyssey in 70mm!

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At the museum of the moving image waiting to see 2001 in 70mm!

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If anyone wants to check if they have a pee fetish, go see Dance of Reality. #movie #imagestuckinhead #somanyquestions

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Just saw The Dark Crystal for the first time. It was…weird.

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