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★★★★

A creatively twisted ride that keeps you off-balance. The plot hits just about the right notes of weirdness, and the acting is uniformly excellent. Leans weird more than conventional.

A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)

A creatively twisted ride that keeps you off-balance. The plot hits just about the right notes of weirdness, and the acting is uniformly excellent. Leans weird more than conventional.

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Super Furry Animals was one of my favorite bands in the early 00s. I remember coming across their album Rings Around the World (2001) at New Moon Records in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan completely randomly and taking a chance on it. It was probably one of the last CDs I ever purchased and I can still recite many of the lyrics to that double album.

While they had been out for a while at that point, my mind was blown as a 20-year-old from small town Michigan. I had no baseline for Welsch surrealism the likes of No Sympathy, where Crosby Stills & Nash-style harmonies quickly bake into comic country before finally melting your face off with 200 bpm electronica. More, please!

Love Kraft is a great album as well. Still genre bending, it felt a bit more contained. While I had moved on from carrying an enormous book of CDs to pocketing an iPod by then (2004), a few of this albums songs were on heavy rotation. One of my favorites was Cloudberries, which often suited me as a moody bitch. Likewise, Cabin Fever and Oi Frango also spoke to me. Walk You Home sounds like Wilco's Sky Blue Sky – six years before it came out.

Seeing the 20th Anniversary Edition pop up in my feed sent me back to those strange and socially awkward college years.

Stunning work. It feels a bit like flipping through old photos and realizing you’ve finally made peace with the person in them. It’s warm, sad, and kind of perfect for this season. Plenty of material here to keep my mind busy for the next couple of weeks.

“Remnick” Blue Skies (TV Episode 2025) ⭐ 7.8 | Action, Drama, Thriller

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Just started this series on Apple TV tonight and I'm into it. The only beef I have with Apple TV at this point is how long it takes for new seasons of anything to come out. I didn't just lose interest in Invasion, See, or Foundation by the time subsequent seasons were released. I forgot most of the plotlines and characters.

My kids had all sorts of questions when they came down for their after-put-to-bed snack.

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finished watching https://neodb.social/~neodb~/movie/7mwcec6iUooOuKdLLXbLg1 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑 My kids had all sorts of questions when they came down for their after-put-to-bed snack.

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A ★★★★ review of Björk: Cornucopia (2025)

My kids had all sorts of questions when they came down for their after-put-to-bed snack.

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The White Lotus (TV Series 2021– ) - Episode list - IMDb

The White Lotus (TV Series 2021– ) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more…

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Finished S3 of White Lotus. Sort of hilarious how it satirizes the Western pursuit of enlightenment through luxury wellness experiences, but hell if I couldn’t use a vacation like that.

The Power Broker - BookWyrm

<p>One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few have known: that Robert Moses was, for almost half a century, the single most powerful man of our time in New York, the shaper not only of the city’s politics but of its physical structure and the problems of urban decline that plague us today.</p> <p>In revealing how Moses did it--how he developed his public authorities into a political machine that was virtually a fourth branch of government, one that could bring to their knees Governors and Mayors (from La Guardia to Lindsay) by mobilizing banks, contractors, labor unions, insurance firms, even the press and the Church, into an irresistible economic force--Robert Caro reveals how power works in all the cities of the United States. Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He personally conceived and completed public works costing 27 billion dollars--the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever having been elected to office, he dominated the men who were--even his most bitter enemy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, could not control him--until he finally encountered, in Nelson Rockefeller, the only man whose power (and ruthlessness in wielding it) equalled his own.</p>

BookWyrmRobert A. Caro

Whew. Lifelong goal complete.