David A. Conrad, Ph.D.

StudioCanal invited me to contribute a booklet essay for the 40th-anniversary edition of RAN, and I've been riding high since! I've seen the booklet and it's gorgeous. Lots of reflective, searching writing in it from several contributors. www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=36407

One thing we deeply need as a people is a good adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's CHILDHOOD'S END, which properly filmed would be a horror movie as well as a multi-generational tragedy. In the early second act the *monster* (albeit arguably benevolent) is the one doing researching in a library.

One thing I know about cheesecake factory (I've been once or twice) is that Brits are kind of obsessed with it and think they want it in their country. They also think they would enjoy more sunshine, even though they currently get a pretty perfect amount, trending toward too much. That sums it up!

Ken Russell knew it, he said it in LISZTOMANIA: "Time kills critics, my dear." It's great seeing THE DEVILS, intact, have this cultural moment. A bright light in a dark time.

Diminish an anime Fluorine Genesis Evangelion

Neon Numbers Evangelion

Anecdotal: I tried to vote today, first day of early voting in Texas, and the line was too damn long. That has not happened to me in any of my many previous early voting experiences. I'll try again on Wednesday at a different location.

My 7yo is very into a variety of grown-up fields of study, but his understanding of them is imperfect. Geneology- and archeology-wise, he believes that "ancestors" is basically a synonym for Neanderthal or early human. We've just about convinced him that it also applies to, say, his grandparents.

I have nothing on her, but I only made it about six months as a SEO writer. I quit, wasn't fired, but it was a draining and awkward experience: writing a bunch of junk content for clients wanting to climb the search engine ladder. The kids who worked there were really fun and much cooler than me.

I've always wanted to buy up all the political billboards along I-35 between Austin and Dallas and destroy them. If I had anything left over, an original Kurosawa storyboard. Coppola has some (I think), he might let them go for a song at this point, he's got even more debt than I do.

One of many reasons why I hate two-factor authentication is when do I do my work? When the kids are asleep. How are the kids asleep? Because my phone is in their room playing their sleep playlists. You want me to get up, walk in there, and hit a damn button?

A good time to remind people that Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo shot himself in the chest after the surrender, and was saved by US Army doctors, then tried and executed as a war criminal. We're no strangers to saving in order to kill.

EYE’s channel has been scrubbed from search results and those bastards at Google did it during the Pordenone silent film festival too 😡 I still want to know what “violation” an archive posting mostly pre-1920 films committed

This is why everyone needs to switch to DuckDuckGo until Google allows those summaries to be turned off by the user.

Contact YouTube, get them to restore the account of Amsterdam's EYE Filmmuseum. I've you've ever used YouTube, chances are you know how often their "moderation" gets it flagrantly wrong. Tell them! YouTube, Settings, Feedback.

Japan. (In the 1930s the Depression is a big part of the story, but struggles for college grads in the 1920s is an interesting point to mention even in passing.)

The only person who specifically should not have a drink on their desk in the workplace is Emilia Clark in that one Game of Thrones scene.

In Ozu's AN INN IN TOKYO (1935), two boys leave their father's parcel in the road, and when they come back for it it's gone. Not to worry, it's Japan, probably just at the train station office. Oh right, it's Japan during the Great Depression. So a different homeless family probably took it.

Where is our "At long last have you no decency?" moment? Where are the voices of reason within the government, who can seize a platform and use their position to lean into what is already a popular opinion that the president is engaged in a violent, inhumane abuse of power?

Where There's a Will, There's a Weyoun: Understanding Agency Among Vorta Clones Before and During the Dominion War If you have any questions, why don't you go ask Worf

Just submitted my 'Doctor Who' tender bid

Europe should not have to stand alone, but we've let them dangle in the cold wind before. Maybe after November we'll be ready to help.

I've always been very analog and controlling about my devices. Screensavers are off, there are no sleep timers, I choose where new files save to every time, I write my citations by "hand," I turn off autoformatting, I ignore spellcheck... I guess this is partly why AI just has no use case for me.

8:00am was too early to see my first horribly tacky print tee of the day. At long last there is no decency.

Benedict Arnold gets a bad rap. He was one of the great heroes of the Revolution and a key part of why it was won. That he married a Loyalist and bailed should be an afterthought; he'd been out of the fight by then. Most people who get compared to him never did anything worthwhile to begin with.

The word "scale," especially as a verb or as the very airy abstraction "at scale," has become the same red flag of bullshit that "synergy" once was. Just a glaring warning that some nefarious company is trying to sell you a nothing.