Terrific thread—and it includes advice in case you're considering giving your kids their own Yes Day!

my kid’s imaginative play reflects his real life experiences which is why today he’s playing “the parking lot is full at the pacifica taco bell”

Let me add, BTW, that when you have a film with a shot featuring Bette Davis, Maggie Smith (rocking an AWESOME tux) and Angela Lansbury all in Anthony Powell’s Oscar-winning costume designs, I mean, goddamn. Anthony Shaffer’s script for _Evil_ was sharper that for _Death_ but both films rule.

Backtracking a bit tonight to rewatch the other Ustinov Poirot that Maggie was in, _Death on the Nile_. A snarky obviously-coded-lesbian assistant to Bette Davis? Hell yeah. “This town is filled with rich old widows willing to pay for a little groveling and a body massage. YOU go ahead and fire me!”

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Interesting account of the Asheville flood of 1916 - also a hurricane. www.frenchbroadrafting.com/blog/remembe...

A case of “you had to be there” but the marketing around Batman 89 was, however implicitly. that we were supposed to be getting something more like _Dark Knight Returns_ than the TV show. Not the case! (Does remind me that I’d love to find the Pogo revival Sunday strip from 89 parodying DKR.)

This isn’t why I ended up in Detroit (I needed a more sustainable life as I got into my 60s) but there hasn’t been a day I haven’t been happy with my decision (even with the items in the “cons” column). DM me if you want to know more about moving here.

There’s no power or cell phone service for nearly fifty miles around. There will be no news helicopters taking photos of the utter destruction in Jefferson County, GA. And this is the case for hundreds of smaller towns that were in the path.

I’m glad people are paying attention to Asheville and Appalachia but central Georgia was also destroyed. These are photos I took yesterday of my home town an hour south of Augusta.