STOP EVERYTHING. Just learned there is an easter egg on my 2018 story about doggie gentrification. Type 'sprout', the name of genius designer Rumsey Taylor's dog, and put up the volume. Free link:

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all the personal news fit to print

Banger.

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I recognize that no one on the planet cares what a quasi-adult man like myself thinks of the Paw Patrol movie. Nor should they!

That’s why I brought my daughter, a huge Paw Patrol fan, along to the movie, and had HER review it instead.

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Discovering the guy who painted the poster for SLEEPWALKERS has never seen the movie and is wondering if someone can tell him what streaming service it’s on is why I’m still on social media.

John Carpenter and Buckethead collaborating on the soundtrack to Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS, released on this day in 2001

I love this man, the Orson Welles I grew up watching on talk shows and commercials and hearing in voiceovers. The whiskey barrel voice, the labored breathing, the random yet somehow always perfect pauses in the middle of sentences, the majestic bulk. Heroic.

Again repeating my brother-in-law's story about him and his Google coworkers going to see the movie as a goof and walking out acknowledging it was the most accurate portrayal of cyber security they had ever seen in a film.