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10.14.02
After skipping last year in the wake of, you know, everything, the Blue Angels returned this weekend for San Francisco's Fleet Week, and it was good to have them back. I can't really explain why I thrill to see them swooping noisily over the Bay, since I'm not such a fan of military-machine violence. But I do. Maybe it's because they were here during my first visit to SF, and we accidentally got a great view of their show from the vantage point of Alcatraz, with The City as the backdrop. So they coincide in my mind with summer in San Francisco.
Plus, it's fun to try to see them from anywhere that the view of the Bay is obstructed, because their sound, massive as it is, is no clue at all to where to look for them. What with them traveling faster than it and all.*
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This one's for Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans: did you know that there is a maker of digital visual equipment named Sampo? There's also a nice detailing of the great MST-Sampo mystery at Wikipedia.
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I don't see me going to see Punch-Drunk Love, since it has Adam Sandler in it and I'm still scarred from the pretension of Magnolia, a bloated three-hour movie that might have contained an intriguing two-hour movie. But congratulations and gratitude to Paul Thomas Anderson and all involved for knowing that the title should be hyphenated.
Also, no matter what the commercial may claim, I for one will not be seeing The Ring before I die. Reason: I hate children whispering sinisterly in ads or trailers. Kept me away from The Sixth Sense for years.
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Site update: the Crumbtents is finally fully updated, from first crumb to latest complete archive. I added "best of" lists, too.
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* See the next day's Crumbs for a correction of this fun but false "fact."
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