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Welcome back Kotto (aka catching cabs in NY)

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/16/2021 - 3:29pm |

Nice elegy by Dennis Hartley for Yaphet Kotto - one of those faces you knew only too well even if you didn't know his name, along with this gem on how not to catch a cab in New York, courtesy Michael Moore.

Thanks for all the films, i feel indebted.

https://digbysblog.net/2021/03/r-i-p-yaphet-kotto/

Murder on the Hippie Highway

By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 10:06pm |

The story of a mass murderer with a huge amount of magnetism and extreme ability to make things go his way - whether a Jeffrey Epstein, a Donald Trump, or a more obscure minor tyrant, it's a disturbing reminder of how easy it is for some to turn on the charm and extortion, contrary to our lawful rational universe expectations.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/13/asia/serpent-bikini-killer-sobhraj-in...

Rosie Perez tale

By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/13/2021 - 3:28am |

Somehow reflects on so many things we discuss around here, seemed worth the read.

https://www.nickiswift.com/296045/the-tragic-real-life-story-of-rosie-pe...

50 shades of Covid fan fiction?

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 3:18am |

Increased levels of lockdown resentment and paranoia could drive a whole new industry and genre.
Maybe the Joker was right - that which does not kill us makes us stranger.

What the World needs now...

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 11:17pm |

As Belarusian journalists convicted, new human rights evidence re Chinese treatment of Uyghurs, what else?

Thread for keeping up with the world beyond Cancun.

...is love sweet love...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/18/asia/china-xinjiang-teacher-abuse-all...

Science, Progress: Bill Gates kicks off

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 1:00am |

No one saw the Carny go

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/14/2021 - 6:29pm |

Julio Cortazar - why just 1 reality?

By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 5:04pm |

We've underestimated our psychological complexity, our capabilities.
A game and not a game, and more.
Once these were the discussions of art & politics.
Rayuela - Hopscotch. We don't move linearly - we jump around.

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