#Marathon number eight complete. ✅
#running
graycat
graycat@nostriches.net
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Direct realist, individualist, libertarian, dove. Trying to overcome my biases.
I think we can all agree that the real winner of this #debate is @Liz Wolfe (but second place goes to Radley Balko).
#GeorgeFloyd #DerekChauvin #police
CC @Zach Weissmueller
https://www.youtube.com/live/O_iOCKMAzIA
One of my neighbors was out for a walk with his wife and child (in a stroller) this morning. Apparently he complained about dizziness, then fell to the ground in cardiac arrest. I came across the scene during my run after some other bystanders (Someone was doing chest compressions), but before paramedics. It took them 10-15 minutes to restart his heart. I hope he makes it. His wife was beside herself.
You're lying next to me, I don't know where to hide
I see your smiley face that makes me wanna cry
What was I thinking? 'Cause all we did was fight
Don't you ever dare to wear my Johnny Cash t-shirt
You're in the wrong place
#tunestr #music #Hooverphonic
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo, 2016)
Underrated movie about a woman (Anne Hathaway) who drinks her way out of her dissipated New York life, moves back to her home town, and then discovers that she controls a kaiju monster that’s wrecking the city of Seoul on the other side of the world. Ultimately it’s a character study about how different people handle an awareness of destructive power. Some feel sober responsibility, while others revel in the opportunity to feel important, no matter the cost to others.
#filmstr #movies #kaiju
IMDb
Colossal (2016) ⭐ 6.2 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
1h 49m | R
This is so true. 😞
#YouTube
“[E]xposure to light later into the evening for almost eight months during #DaylightSavingTime comes at a price. This extended evening light delays the brain’s release of melatonin, the hormone that promotes drowsiness, which in turn interferes with sleep and causes us to sleep less overall.”
#DST
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/daylight-saving-time-2024-brain-health
#running 
Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
Robert Dance
University Press of Mississippi, 2023
Joan Crawford was born Lucile Fay LeSueur in 1905*, in San Antonio, Texas. Her father left immediately. She went to boarding school, but had to cook and clean in lieu of tuition. She lasted one semester at Stephens College in Missouri. Her passion was dancing, but she was never trained.
How, one might wonder, did Crawford become a movie star? Answering that question is the most interesting part of Robert Dance's biography. I think her formula was something like
1. Make friends with as many people in filmmaking as possible.
2. Study what they do and absorb knowledge like a sponge.
3. Cultivate a relationship with moviegoers.
To accomplish 3, Crawford made herself extremely available to photographers and journalists. She also answered much of her fan mail personally, nearly until her death. It took her years to work her way up from extra (and Norma Shearer's body double) to star. (In contrast, Greta Garbo arrived at MGM the same year Crawford did and was immediately given a well-paying contract and starring roles.)
My impression is that Crawford was very likable for much of her life, and she did have lifelong friends who had nothing but praise for her. Sometime in her mid-forties, though, she seems to have become anxious about her status. She started drinking 100-proof vodka regularly as a crutch. She was still capable of being friendly, but she also began to hold grudges. (Okay, she disliked Norma Shearer before then.)
Robert Dance gives his readers the full tour of Crawford's life, with an emphasis on her career. It's an excellent guide to her movies, with some behind-the-scenes stories. The book is also packed with beautiful black-and-white photographs. Unlike many celebrity biographers, Dance makes an effort to be objective about his subject. If he had a bias, it was slightly anti-Crawford; he never missed an opportunity to denigrate her dancing skills, and I think he was too credulous about Christina Crawford's memoir. But overall, it's a high-quality biography that I recommend.
* Crawford insisted she was born in 1908, but this was a lie.
#bookstr #biography #filmstr #JoanCrawford
Ferocious Ambition
Robert Dance’s new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and—while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life...
“Latin America's slide toward authoritarianism points to the long-term cost of allowing political majorities to undermine the rule of law.”
#ElSalvador #bukele #bitcoin
Reason.com
The Bukele model means security without liberty
El Salvador stands at a crossroads between popular sentiment and adherence to constitutional principles.