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damorton.bsky.social
Professor, videographic critic and co-editor of [in]Transition, author of Panel to the Screen and After Midnight, gamer, runner, bass player, wiener dog keeper. Los Angeles/Texas https://damorton.wordpress.com/
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Saturday Afternoon Moods

Today's Recording - Air-"La Femme D'Argent" vimeo.com/1097206306?s...

Today's Recordings - vimeo.com/1097206012?s...

Day 1055 of Interval Training: Ran 10K plus some up the overlook, down the creek, and through Culver. Almost 80 degrees by 10 am and it felt like it.

Saturday Mood: Don’t let the face fool you. He woke us up at 6:30 for food and he’s moping for more. No accidents in 24 hours! I swear to God - Pabst has 10 lives and is held together by wet food, his pill box, and about half the operating budget that raising a child requires.

Paid for Songsterr premium last week and aside from the pesky AI tab updates that often get the song wrong or come up with a more convoluted neck position than you need, you also cannot treat the follow the tracking cursor like Guitar Hero. Falls out of sync way too often and distracts you.

Playing Nurse to the Ween

god damn he's cooking

Dude is CONKED from the antibiotics - but he loves the special food and hasn’t had any bathroom issues. 🤞❤️

Back from getting the pooch from the vet and giving him his meds and some prescription food - let's boogie. Tune in! www.facebook.com/26721278/vid...

I've not updated the following Criterion discs to 4K from Blu yet - PRINCESS BRIDE, TIME BANDITS, FISHER KING. Any of them significant or minor upgrades?

What director had the most films on that NYT list? Anyone break it down?

Day 1054 of Interval Training: Rest day walk had to wrap up early so I could go get Pabst from the vet. Enjoying the Springsteen TRACKS II set!

Pabst Update: We were able to double dip and get his biannual combined with his GI check - biannual looked great (liver levels are a little high, but have always been), nothing major wrt his GI. Just sending him home with a bland diet and some antibiotics. Thanks for well wishes!

Same result after yesterday’s inventory.

NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.

Hey, I know the people who need to hear this are probably not on this site, but here’s a free tip: Stop resigning. Make the fascists fire you. Make them own their actions, then fight it with whatever legal remedies you can find. We can’t win if people don’t fight.

So when do Blue states start banning firearms? And then start making every gun owner file an individual lawsuit seeking an individual injunction? Or they can go through the class certification process which, let me tell you having done it myself in litigation, takes forever. Let’s do this.

Maybe I've lost my mind, but I'm sort of convinced the Pritzker-AOC unity ticket is inevitable at this point.

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A legendary social media Weenus has crossed the rainbow bridge today - Bean, CEO of Sunbean, has lost his battle with pancreatitis and kidney failure. Pour one out for this beautiful soul of a hound and be sure to send your love to his peeps.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland

Last One - vimeo.com/1096989871?u...

RHCP - “Under the Bridge” vimeo.com/1096983070?u...

RHCP - “Under the Bridge” vimeo.com/1096983070?u...

Today’s Recordings - vimeo.com/1096979889

First Amendment expansion for religious rights, 1A limitations for porn. Fuck these guys.

FWIW STEM colleagues tell me this is common practice.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

Lotta folks misinterpreting the headline here - SCOTUS didn’t rule on the order itself, just on the jurisdiction of federal courts. It’s still blocked in the blue half of the country that has mounted lawsuits against it and now class action lawsuits are allowed…

BREAKING:   WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court preserves key part of Affordable Care Act's free preventive health care coverage requirements.

Update: I told them I'm too busy and that asking for that kind of money to publish was against my professional values.

RIP Rebekah del Rio youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c3eSIkQY&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

I wanna nuke the entire apartment with a bleach bomb… 🫣

Pabst did really well last night until he didn’t - essentially, when he’s got food in his GI, it slows everything down. When he doesn’t? It gets more frequent with smaller messes. Gonna bring him into his scheduled appointment this morning despite the improvement.

I got asked to guest edit an academic journal that charges a nearly $2k processing fee per article. I was going to say no because I’m busy - but I also think that’s a horrible policy (I’m in the Humanities and I’ve never seen it done in reputable journals, but I know STEM journals increasingly do?).

Cracked the seal on S4 of THE BEAR and I’m getting late run TED LASSO vibes all over again. Let’s keep doing the reheating the same cool shit, over and over again, until it feels sad/forced. More THIEF soundtrack! More flashbacks! Just move the fucking story forward towards something new. Christ…

Thursday Mood