From the Desk of…
I’ll be quick about this, as I’ve just got an email that I’m a Mega Millions winner ($4) and also because I can hardly keep my eyes open. They should invent a work that is less! It’s a shame I didn’t win a billion dollars for several reasons, but also because it is going to prevent me from buying General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword at auction.
M. Emmet Walsh, noted character actor who had been playing old men since he was young, died at 88 last week. Walsh, a 2021 inductee into the Senator Meow’s Big List of Guys, gave performances so cherished by audiences that he became half of Roger Ebert’s Stanton-Walsh Rule, a simple maxim stating that “no movie featuring either Harry Dean Stanton or M. Emmet Walsh in a supporting role can be altogether bad.” This rule has been fact-checked by real American moviegoers: true.
Loser Larry Householder, currently cooling his heels in the big chiller for his racketeering convictions, was indicted on Monday for a variety of ethics charges as well as misusing of campaign funds and theft in office. Should those charges go through, Larry will be actually prevented from holding office again in Ohio, should he either survive his time in the pen or attempt to run from his cell.
Speaking of losers, we’re apparently “debating” the Columbus statue again. Go read Scott Woods on the issue; it’s better than anything I’d say.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is on thin ice after Very Normal and Incredibly Sane House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to vacate, firing a warning shot across his bow for the audacious move of attempting to govern as part of the government and for moving forward with a support package for Ukraine. As the old saying goes, Dems in Disarray!
I started to write something and realized I had pretty much rewritten Bill Bush’s opening line, so I’ll just go into a quote:
After months of pressure and protests from pro-Palestine constituents, and over the objections of local pro-Israel leaders, the Columbus City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday evening calling for "an immediate, sustained and mutual end to hostilities in Gaza."
Of course, the savvy reader will note that the word “ceasefire” is skirted past, but it’s certainly more movement than I was expecting out of our city council. But, as even The Dispatch noted, “the council's Gaza resolution seemed to please neither side Monday.” The activist coalition has announced its intentions to continue pushing Council on the issue, asking elected officials to “join in the global call not only for ceasefire, but for justice.” The rest of Monday’s council meeting was a weirdly contentious argument about zoning featuring an “scolding” from Councilman Nick Bankston, accusing the Greater Hilltop Area Commission zoning chair of being a conspiracy theorist for trying to be involved in the process and in her community.
The Brain Dump
tired: uploading and maintaining the company database
wired: "there's an Excel on my desktop"
did you even consider the lilies bro. the lilies in the field. they don't toil. they aren't even spinning bro. smh
pruning Plex access from some folks who've not used it ever/in years to increase system stability
Grown up sized white guitarist I’m friends with: The way I be born on this damn bayou…ooh chile😂
Me: You can’t be talking like that Californian John Fogerty.
john wilkes booth has L rizz
At the Movies
You know, I’ve been thinking about it, and Tim Burton really did whip up the best Gotham of them. Anyway. Enough about Batman. For now.
Memories of Murder (2003), dir. Bong Joon-ho ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
One thing I've been thinking about lately is the differences between a crime film, a film noir, and a neo-noir. Sometimes movies make it tough. Body Heat is not an action movie though.
Pretty cool to be able to situate something perfectly within its referents, be they the antecedents or the subsequents. Wear that on your sleeve! Audiences aren't smart enough to know what you're ripping off (sorry, homaging) anyway (see Lucas and Kurosawa, Leone and Kurosawa, Kurosawa and Ford, etc.).
The Long Goodbye (1973), dir. Robert Altman ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
A real look at the struggles of being a cat dad in a doggy-dog world.
Easy Rider (1969), dir. Dennis Hopper ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
what’s better than this, guys being dudes
One Picture
Holy cow, Easter’s this weekend!
In closing,
On a more solemn note, Brigid Kelly, who spent more than a decade working for the members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, who served her community as a councilwoman for her city of Norwood, as an auditor for her county of Hamilton, and as a representative for her state of Ohio, died of esophageal cancer last night at the age of 40. Kelly, who resigned last week from her position as Hamilton County Auditor due to her health, had kept private much of her struggles these past two years since diagnosis. Frankly, I’m still grappling with this loss. Ohio would be a much better place if we were to have a statehouse full of people like Brigid… but there are very few people like Brigid. She was that rare sort of public servant: the kind who actually want to serve the public.
Until next time, give out your flowers while you can.