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With AI software scraping LinkedIn and screening job applications, this scene from ‘Monkee vs. Machine’ isn’t very far removed from reality.

Otto Preminger’s Skidoo is often cited as one of 1968’s strangest movies. Another oddity from that year is Peter Bogdanovich’s first movie, Targets, with the truly great Boris Karloff nearing the end of his life.

If you watch some of the Monkees episodes in yesterday’s post, it’s likely you will see Monte Landis. Busy guy that he was, Monte appeared in seven episodes of The Monkees and he is also found here. Targets opens with scenes borrowed from 1963’s The Terror.

Would AI be able to dream up a real creature as bizarre as this one?

Returning from the supermarket, I laughed when asked, “Why did you buy a gallon jug of bleach?” Yeah, I can see the resemblance. Laundry detergent would be another good guess.

The regular sized bottles have gotten so expensive, they make the big jugs o’ OJ a good deal.

Marathon Monday is coming up, and preparations are well underway. Yesterday, Denro and Samjay were watching different TV stations when they each texted me just minutes apart.

They saw our old friend and colleague Justin commenting on a nerve-wracking situation at the finish line. Here’s the story.

This was the terrible situation there twelve years ago.

Boston, you’re my home

Zollfrei Aus Deutschland! (Duty-free from Germany!)

I’m surprised to see that Thakker has the discontinued Ortofon Super OM 20 in stock, and at a very good price.

https://www.thakker.eu/en/pickup/ortofon-super-om-20-cartridge/a-5112/

With its nude (solid) diamond stylus, the Super OM 20 is my best, and favorite, cartridge.