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boooooooooo…to make this comment more productive, the trailers for '71 and Mr. Turner look really good. A Little Chaos looks like a big cliché mess. Far From the Madding Crowd hard to tell. Do you know The Walk has Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the French tightrope walker on the Twin Towers? So many more interesting…

Yeah, it's a difference, not a barrier or taboo. I think there is the extra layer of it being a Woody Allen movie (whether or not one condemns his personal decisions, it's got to come to mind). Having a much younger female lead isn't that unusual in film and I don't know why it especially stood out to me here. They…

Wait, you just moved and are in the field of cats? Did you move for your job?

That wasn't enough pop culture for you?

Ooh, I was tempted by that one. Big age difference between the two stars, no? How does that come off in the movie?

Just watched ep 1 after reading your post. Most tense I've been in a while, even more than watching Black Mirror. Yeah, really good stuff.

Isn't crowdsourced journalism part of the problem? Also, how often do you — personally and as a profession — talk about your civic duty? Does the U.S. still have a paper of record and do we need one? Was it really classified ads keeping newspapers alive?

So what is undeniable?

I don't think it's silly and I am sorry for your loss. Cats can be spooky (as we've discussed), heartless bastards, but they somehow hold a little piece of us in them…that weird connection thing.

I don't know if I believe in ghosts or not but I swear one time the ghost in our old house opened a door the cat had been crying at to go down in the basement. Cats definitely have some connection between planes.

Just looked it up…it was Necco Wafers in the Civil War. And it was in 2009 and Fox Confessor came out in 2006 and now I am trying to figure out what I heard that made me not like her music and then what made me listen to Fox probably four years after it came out.

Maybe plan a mining month instead? Or New Zealand month? Seance mysteries? I see it pairing well with Arthur and George, now that I think about it.

Cats are freaky, right? I had forgotten how they suddenly stare out in the distance as if they've seen a ghost (or maybe my place really is haunted?) and, man, it creeps me out.

What do you know about the show? The preview is intriguing, although not enough to make me sign up for Amazon.

Two really good books: The Luminaries and In the Approaches. Luminaries is perfect (for me) gold mining, many intertwined characters mystery, and the author controlled the timeline and flashbacks admirably. I said before that I was enjoying all the narration and that got even better. Each character gets a sentence of…

I gotta finally get around to watching The Immigrant. Thanks for more prodding.

You've made my holidays! I realized just the other day that I don't own a copy of the Nutcracker and this one sounds perfect.

How do you feel about people signing their emails, "Cheers," and not being British? It bugs me all out of proportion.

My Neko Case story: I heard her on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and she was hilarious. I thought, geez, I wish I liked her music because as a person, I want her to be my best friend. Then I heard Fox Confessor Brings the Flood and saw the light. So if you think you might need some convincing, that one is my suggestion.