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People tell me that I’m too hard on Hollywood—and movie attendance is entering another growth phase. But I don’t see that in the numbers.

Audiences are losing interest in formula-driven franchise films. Maybe it’s time to take a chance with new talent and new stories.

Arguably the best photo I’ve ever taken using my phone of an ominous stranger on horseback approaching lazy cattle on a chalk hilltop beneath an irascible sky.

The Most Unsettling Walk I've Ever Taken

The great Alan Watts was born on this day in 1915.

“The poets and sages have, indeed, been saying for centuries that success in this world is vanity. “The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes”… The world, they are saying, is a mirage. Everything is forever falling apart and there’s no way of fixing it, and the more strenuous…

Alan Watts: “Who or What Am I?”

This is why New Zealand feels so isolated.

Four years on and much of the reaction from the days after January 6 still rings true.

Remembering January 6, 2021

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