Not my cleanest shot (didn't have my remote handy) but managed to catch the ISS transiting Luna over Houston this morning. 53-image stack. Transit lasted 0.65 seconds.
June 8, 1982: Lakers rookie Kurt Rambis dunks on Darryl Dawkins of the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
Los Angeles won, 114-104, and clinched the NBA World Championship. Jamaal Wilkes scored 27 PTS and Magic Johnson had 13 PTS/13/REB/13 AST/4 STL for the Lakers.
[THE GODFATHER, PART II] Within a scene Coppola is controlled and unhurried, yet he has a gift for igniting narrative, and the exploding effects keep accumulating. About midway, I began to feel that the film was expanding in my head like a soft bullet. (1974)
The Bay Theatre in Seal Beach (est. 1946) was an early SoCal theater to offer revivals & art flicks. Spielberg was a "frequent attendee" while at CSU Long Beach.
Just saw "The Graduate" there and was enamored by elevated angled single seats along the walls. Quirky & ingenious!
CONVOY is full of Peckinpah touches, but you can't tell the put-on from the romantic myth; his cynicism and his sentimentality are so intertwined by now that he's putting himself on. (1978)
Now watching: “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” one of the most prescient episodes in TV history. “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling knew the greatest threat to our society wasn’t alien invaders—it was our own paranoia and willingness to turn on each other.
Trump reportedly executed 3,700 stock trades in just the FIRST THREE MONTHS of 2025.
According to reporting, that was more trading volume and money than all 535 members of Congress combined did over an entire year.
Read that again.
The president of the United States was allegedly trading at a scale bigger than Congress itself while simultaneously controlling:
- tariffs
- defense contracts
- sanctions
- energy policy
- AI policy
- market-moving announcements