This was a sad week for great RnB and funk. Syl Johnson, too.

Thank you for this reference. :)

Thanks for the heads up on the Hrabal memoir. I’m tickled reading the Amazon reviews of advanced readers who thought it was going to be a feel-good book about loving cats, and it sounds like it is anything but.

Academy ratio (1:375) was a response to the shift to sound, but it’s a step removed from the original ratio (1:15) that came about with sound on film (the image was narrower because of the part of the filmstrip that encoded sound).

Revel in your nerdiness!

Yup; they still have the authority to see any possible evidence related to allegations, which means the House can find evidence and bring it to the public. They can also still exercise oversight of acting AG’s, but that’s definitely why Trump likes putting Acting AG’s in place; they’re pretty much disposable, and when…

More like Jarry’s Ubu roi, a silly version of Macbeth where Ubu kills people left and right because he wants the throne of Poland and a nice coat. He also enjoys eating shit and calls his permanent booger his “green candle”(and swears by it).