This review of Some Like it Hot was really inspired by this post from Marisa Kabas that has been rattling around in my head for days:
Planning ahead for public scholarship? Some upcoming anniversaries & observances:
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
60th of Medicareās operation ā Jul 1
200th of Adams and Jefferson deaths ā Jul 4
80th of The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock ā Jul 14
The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well
NO š LIES DETECTED.......
As I have learned this week, some like it hot, so you guys can't be mad at me for talking about how fucked up Some Like it Hot (1959) is.
But it's a fascinating film that can profess a moral philosophy while also utterly refusing to live up to it, in this case, that good people aren't bad men.
Get the boomers in your life away from genAI - entirely.
Incidentally no one should be using energy-hogging tech unless they are solving climate catastrophe, pandemic modelling or similar. The roots of human suffering today aren't a lack of "AI" or bullshit devices.
Please Use AI
"My therapist would be proud of this decision" is the gold star sticker of adulthood