Saw this 1:38 minutes long tiktok video. It got me interested and I looked up this account. However, there isn’t a jxyxly. The first gent opens up…
truth is stranger than fiction
Saw this 1:38 minutes long tiktok video. It got me interested and I looked up this account. However, there isn’t a jxyxly. The first gent opens up…
An American Rhapsody (2001) directed by Éva Gárdos, based on her own story; staring Nastassja Kinski and Scarlett Johansson. It was 1949. Hungarian revolution. Homes were…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, by Sheera Frenkel, Cecillia Kang has just been published, July 13, 2021. The two New York Times…
Spies of Warsaw (2013, one season) is about pre WW II, when Germany was preparing to invade Poland, and World on Fire (2020 US, one…
Another triumph of DNA: a favorite general of Napoleon, Charles-Étienne Gudin (1768-1812) whose remains was confirmed by DNA (through his brother Pierre-César who was also…
An incompetent and irresponsible manager and a bad gov/org. Getting a season pass at our local pool turns out to be an experience. I went on their…
Devil in the White City (2003) by Erik Larson, on Chicago’s 1893 Fair (Expo) and serial killer H.H. Holmes. Two story lines: the fair and…
How the company handles their Help section: with real humans or machines? My Uber credit card, as usual, earns $$ rewards. By the way, I…
After reading Leo Lauder’s The Company I Keep (2020), I thought why not try Estee again. Saw their promotion: spend $130, to get Advanced Night Repair Intense…
President Joe Biden, the second Catholic president (after JFK) is on a potential collision course with US Catholic bishops, over abortion. To punish his opposition ‘to the…