Stefan M

reader, writer, biker, builder, and long-distance walker to-be!

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (M): Yes Buster, down here is full of meanness. Even cruelty. And meaninglessness. Can we ever truly know another? Maybe the trapper has it best.

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The Sports Gene: Will you ever go pro? Could you? If you've raced, you probably know already. Some are naturally fast, some respond faster to training. Most of us never push enough to know our potential.

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Chasing Ice (M): Oof. Glaciers are majestic. And they are disappearing quickly.

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An Inconvenient Sequel (M): How dull, and self-focused! You are not alone, Al. The burden and credit fall on many others, too. Rain bombs?!

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When Two Worlds Collide (M): Yikes. People will fight for their rights but shouldn't have to.Bye trees.What Standing Rock could have become?

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The Prophet: "Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls."

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The Islands and the Whales (M): Dipnetting for birds!? Will we continue to pollute until we are left with no good options? Have we already?

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Lean In: Oof. Even sympathetic men can help sustain a culture that holds women back. Take an implicit bias test. Question. And speak up.

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The Apartment: So good. Are they in love? Who cares? Their happiness and care for each other is tender. War is cruel. Wander more. Say yes.

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This Fight is Our Fight: Anecdotal, angry, but convincing. Without rules, employers and banks will race to the bottom, to the benefit of few

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People of a Feather (M): Wow. Eggs, meat, down! They laughed then too. Why destroy the things that sustain us? There is no free energy lunch

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (M): Oh, sweet innocence. Outlaws, chases, a heist. A story of male friendship. And growing older, maybe. Clothes!

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Endeavor (TV): A new Foyle's War?! Morse is literary, musical, sharp. And usually right. So good I forgive the implausibility.

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Man's Search for Meaning: What horror. Everything taken-even kindness is punished-except maybe thoughts. We are irreplaceable. Do good work.

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Manchester by the Sea (M): Meh. I get it, but it doesn't make me feel. The guys are all kind of jerks. Don't binge. Check your smoke alarm.

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You Can Count on Me (M): Lonergan. Capturing the human condition. It took a movie to convey the loss of a sibling or a son moving to Alaska.

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Selma (M): When does injustice demand that even the unaffected speak up, and act? Certainly then.

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Hillbilly Elegy: Kudos J.D. And ma'ma. And those who were models. The Marines, too. Yes, let's respect, but must pride demand such violence?

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Oranges: Oranges grow on rough lemon roots. Lime seeds can make grapefruit. Valencia bloom and fruit simultaneously. The navel is a monster.

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The Model 12 Winchester as a Way of Life: Such longing, pride, love. "We should have quit/ With spears from weeds/And clods from cornfields"