I’ve caught pretty much all of them this summer, except for Totoro — Kiki’s Delivery Service, Castle in the Sky, Nausicaa, and I’ll be seeing Spirited Away at the end of this month. All have been excellent in terms of picture, sound, and projection; no problems whatsoever. It’s been wonderful to see them all on the…

Also, Pier 1 always has an incredibly cloying, overbearing smell to it, mainly because they typically have that insane section that’s basically an entire WALL of horribly-scented, often very large, candles. I remember walking in with my Dad once, and he sneezed about five times immediately, it was so overpowering.

Will Ferrell has made more great comedies (and it’s hard to imagine that balance shifting), but has never made a “serious” movie nearly as good as Sandler’s three best.

I... did not know this.

“It’s go-go, not cry-cry.”

I’m a professional bookseller/soon-to-be publisher, and I work in a secondhand shop full time, so THE STRUGGLE IS VERY REAL. With the books. But it has gotten way past the “I’m out of both floor and safely-anchored wall shelf space” stage and well into the “Which stack on the floor of books will I trip/knock over…

I rent, so my options are limited (plus, I often live paycheck to paycheck, so that limits me even more), but currently: reorganizing my tiny, tiny closet and everything in it. Also, re-shelving/seriously culling my mountains of books and anything else on shelves. It is... daunting, thus far.

Since you included ‘80s, I’ll just say that I have literally never spent time at any event/party where people did NOT dance for Michael and/or Janet Jackson. Foolproof.

That sounds awesome. It’s been way too long since I’ve had some good nachos.

I want to know so, so badly what type of job exists where someone could work below their pay grade and title for a decade and still love it. It’s a miracle.

Not that I have any advice because, like, same. Men don’t like me. They aren’t interested in me. It hurts and I wish it were different, but I’ve never had someone fall in love with me either. So there we are.

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Thanks for that info! I’m still doing street photography, some of which I do like to do at night, so I’m still interested in good speed and aperture combos, though I rarely have much budget to work with (photography really isn’t part of my work anymore, at least for the time being; the years I did do it paid so poorly…

GOOD.

It really is. One of the things that kept me from pursuing sports photography (okay, the main thing) was the prohibitive cost of really wide open lenses (some of those massive ones you see guys with on sidelines that need their own monopods just to stay balanced cost more than a new car, and that’s just a lens). But…

As with any movie list, this is sure to spur a ton of argument, but hey. (ETA: Hey, I’m not in the grays anymore! Awesome.)

Right? I’ve been getting fully back into shooting film over the past couple years, slowly but surely (I hadn’t used either of my film bodies in nearly 10 years, and had gotten pretty rusty! to think I used to reload multiple cameras without even looking!), and it just reminds me how much work is put into capturing a…

“People who I really respect talk about “relevance” but I’m like, “I don’t care, leave me alone.”

Every shot in this article is fantastic (and thank you for another fantastic post in this series! there’s a part of me that still wishes I could’ve afforded to break into sports photography, but my GOD the cost of gear is crippling), but...

If you need a shot of a very fast thing (such as a sport in motion) taken at night, you are going to basically have to couple a wide aperture with a fast shutter speed (otherwise, the combination of a slow shutter + extra light from a wide open lens is going to just mean nothing but a bunch of blur in your shot), so…