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accidentally fell into a conversation on twitter with someone about kubrick only to remind myself that i put the pseudo in pseudo intellectual. his take was kind of absurd but he had the confidence of someone willing to wield it that came from at least a wellspring of knowledge as opposed to the mountain of trivial that ive built my house of shards upon. all of which is just a preface to the realization that i use to make amtrak reservations under different names, one of my favorites of which was david bowman, bowman because i was a sagittarius, and if i ever knew, i have no recollection of the fact that is this the name of the lead character in 2001. did i mention trivial?
can i handle this much whimsy today? maybe tomorrow. maybe someday.
RIP James Caan
Enjoying the first episode of The Offer, a series on the making of The Godfather.
"In Airplane(1980), The casting of professional basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a member of the flight crew was a reference to pro football player Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch's role as a pilot in the serious airplane disaster film Zero Hour! (1957) which is heavily parodied by Airplane."