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There’s snow place like Disneyland Paris where the resort has turned into a winter wonderland this week! As the first flakes of the season blanketed the park, it was the perfect time to grab a chocolat chaud and take in the snowy surprise. Over at Disneyland Hotel, which received a stunning transformation earlier this year, Elsa could be seen unleashing her Ice Magic over Disneyland Park. This one-of-a-kind moment took …

Source: Kevin Brownlow, David Lean: A Biography (London: Faber & Faber, 1997 [orig. 1996]) p. 203 Text: I was making GREAT EXPECTATIONS down at Rochester when the first print came through [of Brief Encounter] … I suggested we ask the local theatre if they would run a preview. Rochester was a pretty tough town in those days and at the first love scene one woman down in the front started …

Weekly, Regional Policy Director Dan Reed and DC Policy Director Alex Baca will share with you an action you can take in the immediate future that has the potential, sometimes great and sometimes small, to increase the number of homes in our region, decrease the trips people take by car, make all of it safer, and not screw people over in the process. This week: grumble about the National Park …

Eternal God! Maker of allThat have lived here since the man’s fall:The Rock of Ages! in whose shadeThey live unseen, when here they fade; Thou knew’st this paper when it was Mere seed, and after that but grass;Before ’twas dressed or spun, and whenMade linen, who did wear it then:What were their lives, their thoughts, and deeds,Whether good corn or fruitless weeds. Thou knew’st this tree when a green shadeCovered …

I am still putting together a major method list for 00-99. I had a plan to then convert those images to a PAO list, but I’m not sure what the advantage is here. I see the utility in PAO if I was in a memory competition or needed to remember a long string of numbers very rapidly, but my memory goals are a little less ambitious. I’m planning on going …

Gladiator II (2024) • View trailerFour stars (out of five). Rated R, for strong, bloody violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick BangAlthough the lengthy gap between this film and director Ridley Scott’s predecessor seems an eyebrow lift, scripters David Scarpa and Peter Craig cleverly work that passage of time into their plot. Although Lucius (Paul Mescal) isn't expected to survive his first bout in the Coliseum,he proves unexpectedly resourceful ... much …

Because there’s nothing you can’t do with LEGO, this is a video from the Brick Experiment Channel (previously), this time engineering LEGO cars to cross increasingly narrower bridges, eventually crossing just a string stretched between two tables. The solutions to balancing the vehicles while crossing the bridges are quite ingenious. At least I thought they were, maybe you’re an engineer and these were the logical solutions. Because I would have …

More photos from the garden, a woodlouse having a close encounter with a flashlight. Also photos of berries, blackbirds, etc.

Manuel Moreale: Sometimes I spot posts like Chris’ Media Diet in my RSS feed and I’m always amazed by the fact the people manage to keep up with movies and TV series and the rest of the media landscape. I can totally see how someone posting a post like mine makes it feel like I just bathe myself in popular media. But to me it feels like the opposite, like …

Yenisei releases a warm and beautiful album.

With Thanksgiving just a few days away, I wanted to embrace the russet colors, crunchy leaves, pumpkin spiced world of the autumn season for just a little longer before Santa and his red-and-green posse take over. I’ll be ready to embrace peppermint mochas and icicles and such in a few days but I’m just not ready to abandon fall quite yet. It’s my favorite season so I hope you enjoy …

A very original book A few months ago I wrote a short comic, a four-page one-shot, not about Pepper&Carrot, but about Christmas for Le Lombard publishing. It was a great opportunity for me to work with a new team and set new standards. It was also a privilege to work for this publisher, famous in the Franco-Belgian comics world for such iconic titles as the Smurfs, Tintin, Blake and Mortimer, …

Luna - The Bowery Ballroom, New York City, October 20, 2019Some good news for a change. As per usual, I’ll be out in the Los Angeles area visiting family over the holidays. Less per usual, Luna will be there, too! The band is playing two west coast shows to close out 2024 — the Teragram Ballroom on Dec. 29 and the Fillmore up in SF on New Year’s Eve. If …