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Blah blah blah blah one existing screen in the US...

• Dallas, TX: Cinemark Webb Chapel

...plus 3 more before next year:

• Woodridge, IL (Chicago): Cinemark Seven Bridges
• Colorado Springs, CO: Cinemark Carefree Circle
• Rochester, NY: Cinemark Tinseltown

Exactly. It’s a proven that will only show up at scale, and these little randomized studies will never demonstrate it.

I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.

Barakamon (2014)

After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.

And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ip2T3BS3mgg

I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.

Quick reminder:

Dipavali (aka Diwali) is the Hindu “festival of lights”, a 5-day celebration symbolizing the spiritual victory of Dharma over Adharma; basically light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance.

🧐 Hmm.

Halloween, it is said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come early.

I've heard Jordan Crucchiola argue for what she calls "a well-crafted" jump scare, but I haven't heard them actually describe what that is or provide a solid example of one.

Depending on the taxonomy of scares and what technically does and doesn't quality as a "jump" scare, two of my favorites come from early M. Night Shyamalan.

From The Sixth Sense.., ::: spoiler spoiler the slow pan inside the tent made of bedsheets, ::: and from Signs... ::: spoiler spoiler the initial monster in the news footage. :::

More-so that many other jump-scares I've seen, those felt earned. The framing was creative. You recognize that there's something scary coming up, but the plot is shaped such that you don't know what you're about to see. The expectation and the not-knowing are far far more important to the scare than simply the virtual invasion-of-space and sharp orchestra sting.

Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:

I swear I've seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.

Saving this for my next KYC identity check.

I don't know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I've ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.

Ride or die indeed.

I'm calling bullshit on this.

The article backhandedly implies that, while there may be 724,000 youth ages 13–17 who identify as transgender, they can be split into two groups: 1) those who exhibit gender-non-confirming behavior "from birth" (???) and 2) those who don't. Those who don't are only described as being subject to "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" (ie: trans-ing cuz it's cool), which the article claims to have scientific merit.

Ok, sure, but how about spending SOME TINY BIT OF INK on the notion that some kids recognize that it's fucking terrifying to be trans and get really good at deliberately repressing their gender identity. And then, if they do decide to come out, start broadcasting that gender identity "rapidly." To the outside observer, the kid appears to have suddenly caught the trans, but actually they just suddenly decided to let people see it.

Any industry rag that doesn't plainly acknowledge this scenario is peddling a narrative.

Skeets & toots ahoy!

Revision draft:

“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”

Reposting a comment when this popped up two days ago:

If you have the stomach for it, the 2013 documentary Let the Fire Burn is worth your time.

JustWatch says it's streaming on AppleTV, Ovid and Kanopy.

🗞️📣🗞️📣🗞️📣 EXTRA! EXTRA! 🗞️📣🗞️📣🗞️📣

Witch strikes moon in eye during broom-top fly-by; Italian Diviners claim: "That's amore!"

If you have the stomach for it, the 2013 documentary Let the Fire Burn is worth your time. JustWatch says it's streaming on AppleTV, Ovid and Kanopy.

Clever acts of civil disobedience.

Consider the risks, the disruption, the audience, the take-away message / discourse.

Protests need to get creative. The inflatable frog suits are good example: it's ridiculous, it's visibly passive, it's practical, and it has great optics. Entire protest actions need to be designed with these things in mind.

Everyone (protestors and the public alike) are bored to tears of street marches, cute protest signs and the same dozen chants.