This overview of Hollywood today is an appropriately slick production. As with many other industries, it seems unlikely to ever fully recover from the pandemic. Just the fact we’re all watching these 10-15 minute YouTube videos is a big part of the problem.
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Is Oil the Meaning of Life?
“O Deep Thought computer,” he said, “the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us….” he paused, “The Answer.”
“The Answer?” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to what?”
“Life!” urged Fook.
“The Universe!” said Lunkwill.
“Everything!” they said in chorus.
Deep Thought paused for a moment’s reflection.
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“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.– Douglas Adams, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’
A barrel measurement of crude oil is 42 gallons.
A Message From Notflix
Hi Netflix member, whose name we don’t know. This offer ends THIS WEEK, and yet the time that’s left for you to respond is fixed at an unchanging 05:29.
The Sixties are Back!
Yesterday topped out at 60 degrees, and today will be even a few degrees warmer. Buh-bye, roof ice dams! Hello, water in the basement?
Foretold Medicine
Here and there in spots upon my person, I suffer from the PLAGUE of PLAQUE PSORISASIS! Now there’s hope … but also fear.
Stax o’ Trax
I should have watched the HBO documentary, STAX: Soulsville USA before Steve Cropper died, but I’m doing it now. Eddie Floyd’s ‘Knock on Wood’ is my favorite in this collection. Who doesn’t love the theme from Shaft?