Find somebody who loves you the way CHiPs loved Mulholland Drive
swear to God half the episodes are shot either on Mulholland Drive or on a street in Chatsworth that’s masquerading as Mulholland Drive
yes
lately for afternoon feedings, Moose and I have been watching CHiPs
I do not recommend this
CHiPs was my favorite show when I was maybe five or six years old
that is exactly the level of audience mental acuity that was targeted by the showrunners of CHiPS
one thing about watching shows in different decades is that you see what different decades’ entertainment served up, and what their audiences expected and were into
I had not realized how many TV episodes of my youth featured downhill rollover car crashes and explosions.
one thing that struck me about canyons in parks in the San Fernando Valley when I moved here was the sheer number of wrecked cars; go for a hike and you’ll see at least one
I had wondered if it was joyriders
or insurance scams
now I wonder if it was CHiPs
Addendum: I just realized that we are farther from the CHiPs reunion TV movie (1998) than the CHiPs reunion TV movie was from the premiere of CHiPs (1977), so I’m going to go die of old age.
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ME. “And you’ll never guess what the Boogaloo Bois did next!”
EVERYBODY WHO READS MY TWITTER, dully and in unison. “They kept using Discord”
ME. “THEY KEPT USING DISCORD” leftcoastrightwatch.org/2021/01/citize…
“well, there’s the official proof the Boogaloo is a right-wing movement”
“the content of their Discord, huh”
“...content?”
RADICAL RIGHTIES. “The entire platform of Discord is compromised!Let’s go elsewhere”
ME. “Gonna make one big chatroom?”
RR. “Uh, yeah”
ME. “Gonna advertise it via general publicity in public forums?”
RR. “Of course”
ME. “Gonna let anybody join?”
RR. “Absolutely”
ME. “...carry on”
Very interesting after-action report from the Hard Lefty side of December 12 in DC. Quite unlike Hard Righties’ comments in similar circumstances: Hard Lefties are very tactically minded and are also willing to admit failure when they fail. itsgoingdown.org/d12-report-bac…
Hard Lefties also think socially, in terms of making friends.
Lots of frank thought about successes and failures, with ideological shoring-up after having had to rely on police protection.
Watching Dario Argento’s PHENOMENA (1985) with Jennifer Connelly (!!) as a movie star’s daughter who sleepwalks and has a psychic link with insects
and Donald Pleasence (!!!) as the entomologist who enlists her talents to catch a psycho killer
and, for some reason, a chimpanzee
PHENOMENA is clunky, but the gimmick is interesting, and the Swiss locations are gorgeous and unusual.
The scene chemistry between Pleasence and Connelly is interesting. It’s not avuncular, and it’s not creepy; it’s a little distant but respectful.
Jennifer Connelly is bullied by her boarding school classmates and amasses a goddamn enormous horde of flies to unnerve them and this movie was a formative inspiration for the webnovel WORM, wasn’t it?
Today’s background movie is ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (1973) with Robert Blake as a tough but sensitive motorcycle cop who wants to move up to homicide. Really good so far!
Nothing much happens in the first half hour but establishing Blake as a gentle weirdo — but that’s adorable.
ELECTRA GUIDE IN BLUE has one of those scenes where a cop’s instincts about a case are ignored — except instead of the usual tough cop being ignored by wussy superiors, he’s a sensitive cop whose instincts are ignored by the tough guys!
It’s a dynamic you’ve see a million times, but swapping the personalities on either side makes it fresh and compelling.