Spitball Army

Made cookies for work tomorrow: mint-chocolate chip in shortbread sprinkled slightly with cayenne and salt. I call them “confused cookies.”

Card is untitled on its front.

Printed on back of post card:

Golden Gate Bridge spans the Pacific Ocean for a distance of 6, 451 feet to connect northern California to the peninsula of San Francisco. John B. Strauss designed this suspension bridge which was completed in 1937.

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Berkey American Landmark Prints

Really less a film than a document, and proves what a great debt the early Beatles owed to the Marx Brothers.

Perhaps the best among the sub-genre of Pacific Northwest character-driven ensemble dramedies. And that includes Juno.

It’s clear in its opening moments that the film is about perception, then a shot of sunlight through trees seals the deal.

It’s Avatar for gamers, Godzilla for fanboys, and a whole lot of indistinct monster shapes filmed in darkness and smoke.

Confession: I watch more films than I should.

Snotty Opinion: The vast quantity of movies that I have seen over the last half-century makes me uniquely qualified to judge their merits in relation to all other films.

Result: I have compiled a list, below, of films I watched over the last twelve months that I have subjectively rated a 9.0 or above on a ten-point scale.

Have at it.

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Card is titled: “Old Faithful Geyser.”

Printed on back of post card:

OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER in Yellowstone National Park. It was so named Old Faithful because it erupts at regular intervals ranging from 33 to 95 minutes. From 10,000 to 12,000 gallons of water are discharged at each eruption. This is undoubtedly the most photographed geyser in the world.

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B1970-Color Photo by Wyoming Travel Commission.

Published by Yellowstone Park Co., Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190
Mike Roberts
Berkeley 94710

Neill Blomkamp’s obsession with “man-machine,” Part 2. Also, a tale of two landscapes – no surprise he favors the bleak one.

Best. Subtitles. Ever. (from THE CONJURING) pic.twitter.com/r01tMK6R21

— Fred Osuna (@spitballarmy) December 12, 2013