Dispatches Of Note

There are a lot of great movies out there, and it's hard to say which ones are the best. But, the American Film Institute tries to list the best of the best in their list of the top 100 American films of all time. We are going to take a look at the AFI 100, and give you some wry thoughts on the movies on the list.  This episode covers number 100 through number 75.We were inspired to do this by the Unspooled podcast with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson.  Please check it out if you'd prefer a lot of insight by two people who have, in fact, seen the movies on the list. Or will have by the time they talk about it.  We don't have similar constraints.

  

Dispatches Of Note: E14 - A List About Movies! (Part 1)

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There are a lot of great movies out there, and it's hard to say which ones are the best. But, the American Film Institute tries to list the best of the best in their list of the top 100 American films of all time. We are going to take a look at the AFI 100, and give you some wry thoughts on the movies on the list.  This episode covers number 100 through number 75.

 

We were inspired to do this by the Unspooled (https://www.earwolf.com/show/unspooled/) podcast with Paul Scheer and Amy Nicholson.  Please check it out if you'd prefer a lot of insight by two people who have, in fact, seen the movies on the list. Or will have by the time they talk about it.  We don't have similar constraints.

There's a certain romance to the idea of hammering away at a detective story on a manual typewriter, with a glass of whiskey to the side as an overhead fan pushes motes of dust in the shafts of light poring through the slats of wooden window blinds. Sometimes you just want to be Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett. Sometimes you just want to create a wisecracking private eye in the grand noir tradition. But, sometimes you are too lazy to actually write a whole book, so here are some random lines from my upcoming someday tale, A Game Of Lies.

Dispatches Of Note: E13 - Random Lines From That Noir Novel I Am Writing

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Jordan Peele, director of Get Out and Us, is the latest person to try and recapture the lightning in a bottle that was Rod Serling's groundbreaking anthology series The Twilight Zone. We feel that we can offer a hand by providing ideas for taking the classic episodes and updating them for Peele's new effort. So, submitted for your approval.....

  

Dispatches Of Note: E12 - Pitches For The New Twilight Zone

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No song is more identified with Billy Joel than Piano Man (except for maybe some weird fringe groups that are really into We Didn't Start The Fire).  The song seems like a lovely slice of life tune about a struggling musician making his way by playing piano in a bar to largely inattentive patrons. But the song really does bring up a lot of questions. Questions we will raise here, but do nothing whatsoever to answer.

  

Dispatches Of Note: E11 - Questions Raised By Billy Joel's Piano Man

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Breakfast cereals, like any other product, are marketed to consumers in a way designed to make us buy, buy, buy them. There is an art, and, indeed, a science to selecting just the right slogan to tantalize customers.Here are some original concepts (which we clearly just made up) that didn't quite hit the mark.

Dispatches Of Note: E10 - Rejected Slogans For Breakfast Cereals

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Breakfast cereals, like any other product, are marketed to consumers in a way designed to make us buy, buy, buy them.  There is an art, and, indeed, a science to selecting just the right slogan to tantalize customers.

Here are some original concepts  (which we clearly just made up) that didn't quite hit the mark.

Game of Thrones returns for its final season in April.  There are so many storylines to wrap up! Who will win the Iron Throne? What will become of the army of White Walkers? How will the dragons play into all this?  How much gratuitous nudity will there be?  But, perhaps more terrifying than the army of the undead and the treachery abounding in Westeros, is the true menace confronting us all. And that is, of course, squirrels.

Because when squirrels play Game Of Thrones, we all die. 

 

Dispatches of Note: E9- Predictions For The Final Season Of Game Of Thrones...

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Game of Thrones returns for its final season in April.  There are so many storylines to wrap up! Who will win the Iron Throne? What will become of the army of White Walkers? How will the dragons play into all this?  How much gratuitous nudity will there be?  But, perhaps more terrifying than the army of the undead and the treachery abounding in Westeros, is the true menace confronting us all. And that is, of course, squirrels.Because when squirrels play Game Of Thrones, we all die.

Here’s a series of random musings covering the gamut from Lincoln to robots, and all points in between, including Evel Knievel and Bernie Sanders. It’s a lot to take in, and yet it’s only a few minutes long. Go figure!

Dispatches of Note: E8 - Random Things I Want To Tell You - Volume I

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