Where Danger Lives
Where Danger Lives (1950) is a film noir starring Robert Mitchum and Faith Domergue and directed by John Farrow for a Howard Hughes-owned...
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) is a collection of twenty-seven essays by American author and humorist David Sedaris, and had me laughing...
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Look Back In Anger
Look Back In Anger (1959), starring Richard Burton (Jimmy), Mary Ure (Alison) and Claire Bloom (Helena), is a film based on John...
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Nerima Veggie Vending
Location: 35°46'11.8"N 139°36'33.1"E Tokyo has 23 wards (ku), each unique in its own right. I’ve lived in eight: Bunkyo, Minato, Edogawa,...
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Midnight Express
Midnight Express (1978) was streaming on Netflix this week and since I'd never seen it before and usually get right into prison escape...
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The Sea and Poison
I sort of read this book by accident. I’ve heard about Shusaku Endo for years but never read his work, and I recently watched Martin...
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Shirako River Blossoms
Location: 35°45'59.7"N 139°36'35.1"E I took this a block from my house in Nerima-ku on April 7, 2019. This time of year the Shirako River...
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The Stranger
The Stranger (1946) is Orson Welles’ first film noir and also the first Hollywood movie with documentary footage of the Holocaust. Franz...
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Shantaram
Weighing in at 944 pages (roughly 375,000 words), this is the longest novel I've read in a while. Shantaram (2003) details the...
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View of Vinh Nam Chon Beach
Location: 16°08'51.3"N 108°08'08.7"E I took this photo on the Hai Van Pass, north of Da Nang, Vietnam (February 27, 2019). There wasn't a...
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