cafes, communication, and more
In the lead up to (David) Letterman’s final episode, there were a lot of best-ofs, tributes, excerpts from the show going up on YouTube and some widespread melancholia. I think I started down the rabbit warren watching a tribute song performed by Adam Sandler, and then went much broader, watching different videos and reading a …
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Home is a kids movie from Dreamworks. We found it still playing, and for $6 tickets, and so a family movie trip was born. It’s a sci-fi piece, there are quite a few chase scenes and tense moments, but it’s mostly innocuous stuff, and they do a good enough job building some emotional connection into the …
I still read a lot online; mostly through a feed reader, which I pay for. Part of reading through a feed reader is not seeing the content in its original context, except for those sites that encourage the user to click through to read something. If you’ve been online for a while, you will be deeply …
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Over on Medium is a list of 60 free tools for modern storytellers. Writing, websites, sources of payment, reporting, organisation, news updates, audio, video, images and resources; emails, social media, SEO. It’s a good list, but the trouble with such a list is not knowing where to start. It’s a long journey between wanting to …
I’ve had a fairly busy month, with a fair bit of doing some laptop-work in the evening with something on the TV in the background. Much of the last month this has been some kind of Netflix show or movie, and overall I’ve been impressed. The range is not exhaustive, though there is plenty to …
Captain America 2 seemed as good a test as any for watching a movie on Netflix. I haven’t watched the first Captain America movie, but as with all good blockbuster sequels, they’ve worked hard to make this unnecessary. Lots of namedropping of other pieces of the Marvel universe, this is a Chris Evans / Scarlett Johansen …
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Shaun the Sheep the movie (from Aardman) is a laughter-filled family-friendly movie in the tradition of silent / slapstick cinema. My kids enjoyed it (only finding a couple of scenes scary), and the grown-ups were laughing their way through it too.
Dear Delicious coffee. 245 Wardell Rd, Dulwich Hill (near the train station). Found this one via Google – I thought someone had mentioned a new place in Dulwich Hill, but I couldn’t remember much detail: sorry if you were the one who told me about it! Easy to find, and being a Sunday afternoon, relatively …
White Horse Coffee. 226 Crown St, Wollongong. If you haven’t been to the Crown St Mall and surrounds recently, you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Lots of construction work has finished, there’s more parking, and there are new premises open, like this one: Humber, just beyond the Crown St Mall on the railway station end. …
Apple TV: Frost/Nixon I’d added this to my wishlist a long while back, having heard good things about Michael Sheen turning in another transformative performance, and Frank Langella’s Nixon. I’m a few years too young to know much of Nixon except – as the movie points out towards the end – the tendency we have today of …