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This ad has been popping up on Web pages. Is the girl with the incredible red hair a character in the game?

Somebody should tell actress Jenna Thiam. The incredible red hair belongs to her.

Note: This blog post title isn’t intended to be sexist. Jenna isn’t French, she’s French-speaking Belgian, and French Wench is the name of a cocktail.

My annual subscription for web hosting will come due after the start of the year, and the fact is I’m not sure I want to continue this weblog. It’s been fifteen years since I started using WordPress, and I’m feeling ready to stop using it. Technical problems, some of which remain unresolved, no longer feel like challenges. They’ve become merely annoying. Google has once again stopped indexing the site. This problem first appeared after Bluehost temporarily hosted my domain within another domain. Did they do it again? It’s not worth the bother checking.

All of the big events associated with this site happened within its first few years, and since then it’s just been me sharing and spouting. How many people are still looking at “Prattling Before the Pratfall” anyway? Perhaps as few as half a dozen, whose interest I sincerely appreciate. The cost ($300+/year) isn’t an issue, but I don’t like paying for aggravation. It would be a lot cheaper to cut back to having just the domain and the e-mail addresses in it.

Here’s an 80’s artifact. Trump Plaza, where Penn & Teller rose to fame, is featured prominently. Look fast for the Amazing (James) Randi.

If you appreciate Celia Johnson in David Lean’s Brief Encounter, you’ll enjoy seeing Nova Pilbeam in Hitchcock’s Young and Innocent. This is a movie that isn’t shown very often, and towards the end it’s obvious why that is.