I specifically forgot to bring my Friday tea. It's a very strong black tea that I enjoy with (probably too much) sugar and milk. That's my Friday ritual to treat myself. I'm so mad that I forgot to bring it!
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Have a nice weekend y'all!
Little did I know Freddy Fazbear was there to kill me
I’m a server at an assisted living retirement home and there’s this old German woman there. In her old age she’s been regressing back to her younger mind. I believe when she was a child she and her family were likely Hitler supporters given that she will often say “Hail Hitler” and salute to one of our resident veterans. Maybe as a joke or an offense, I’m not sure. But he’s too polite and goes along with it which is….bizarre to witness. Around 6pm, a few times a week, she’ll walk around the dining room, stop at every table and tell the other residents “it’s six o’clock, and all is well.” Needless to say, nobody in the room knows what the correct response is (if there is one) so they all just thank her for letting them know. So, with that information in mind, is that phrase significant to German history? I tried looking it up but I’ve had no luck. I figured I might as well go to the source.
"Join Billy and Dom in their pilot episode as they discuss the first time they read Lord of the Rings, their favorite movies growing up, offer a food critique of Twinkies™️, and host a LOTR trivia battle for the ages! "
This was a great listen if you are WFH or just needing a listen or whatever I cant tell people about this new podcast enough!
And the 10 o'clock news is late too. I do wonder if people will tune in without knowing and think they've somehow missed two hours of their day.
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Explain?!?!
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https://36toesproductions.medium.com/ross-mcelwees-six-o-clock-news-1a6e54d15f67
If people recognize Ross McElwee’s name they are likely to associate it with his much acclaimed documentary Sherman’s March. Its on most lists of the best documentaries and on several lists of the best films. It is indeed a great film but it is one among several equally great films made by McElwee. His films can be seen as one long documentary where each installment is as good as the next. They are a document of McElwee’s life blended with his questions about existence. Sherman’s March does a good job exemplifying his approach to filmmaking but I personally am most fascinated by his documentary titledThe Six O’Clock News.
The Six O’Clock News was his eighth film. He made it in 1996. It spans at least four years of his life. It has several themes and ideas that weave through it but the central subject is control. He examines his lack of control over his subjects as opposed to a fiction film director who has completely control. He examines the concepts or fate, destiny and god and how there are those who feel that their lives are controlled by these forces. He examines the camera itself as means of control as well as the news media and television in general. He sort of free associates between all of these aspects and allows them to inform each other. His meditations may feel disordered but they are thorough and substantive.
McElwee is able to see the world through a lens of control and see aspects of this idea in all of his experiences. He sees it with his wife and child, with his oddball landlord, in church, on tv and in his Harvard classroom where he teaches. The breadth of his vision is itself a result of his not being in control. Wherever his investigation takes him he spontaneously follows. He ends up interviewing firefighters in Yosemite, Evangelicals in a trailer park in Arizona, A survivor of a horrible earthquake in LA, a producer trying to hire him for a film and many more. McElwee is wide open to what the world brings him. He is friendly and inquisitive and seemingly willing to spend time talking with anyone, including a drunken homeless man who accosts him on the Santa Monica Pier.
One of the both endearing and frustrating aspects of McElwee is that he never puts his camera d
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