Did this 5 years ago on FB. Updating. The best 365 films I've ever seen (no order). Based on my ratings (4.5 or 5 stars) on @letterboxd. I post one a day in a thread with an image.
To be clear, because I've collapsed into exasperation tweets:
This headline is not just incorrect, but false and misleading. #SARSCoV2 D614G has been a present lineage in Europe and NAmerica since the beginning of the pandemic. G has become more dominant than D. /1
We are not certain why G overtook D. Serendipity founder effects. Marginal increase in infectiousness. Some combination. With so many susceptible hosts, it seems unlikely there was any sufficient selection for G to 'outcompete' D. /2
I keep being left with the weight of this brilliant @edyong209 piece. It's about this pandemic, but it really correctly pokes at the raw nerve that is the American experiment at this moment. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
We've arrived at some impasse. By a series of disasters and failures, the future of American hegemony is unclear to a majority of Americans. It's a point that Americans have not really collectively grappled with since before WWII. Some have with good reason, but not nearly all.
Yet instead of seeing the blank canvas as an opportunity to forge a new path, to resolve our character toward a hopeful future... we've retreated into resignation, cynicism.
Further saddled with leaders who indulge our self-loathing and self-pity.
I don't bemoan college students for anything. They were handed a deal from the bottom of the deck in many ways.
They have seen for the last 6 months that there are no 'adults' in leadership, no consequences or accountability. There is no strong and consistent modeling. /1
I'm sure the majority of college students do their best to take part in good practices, while a minority of transgressions get all the oxygen. In that way, their demographic is no different than any other over this pandemic. /2
The scolding of students for failing to adhere to University 'pandemic guidelines' is just another classic case of focusing on individual actions when structural forces drive events. /3
Today at @bakercornell we received sad news that Prof LeLand 'Skip' Carmichael passed away last night in Ithaca.
Skip was cherished family of Baker Institute and @cornellvet.
Instrumental in identification of epizootic Canine Parvovirus, development of the vaccine. #virology
In ~1976 a severe haemorrhagic enteritis broke out in dogs and quickly spread worldwide. Skip and his team were key in identifying the parvovirus, and recognizing its likely homology to feline panleukopenia virus.
That homology was the basis for a rapidly developed vaccine based on FPV... which was improved to an attenuated formula developed at Baker by 1981. That has been the basis for all CPV vaccine formulations since.
Gonna start @criterionchannl WESTERN NOIR series. First up: BLOOD ON THE MOON (1948) with Robert Mitchum. Dir: Robeet Wise.
The cinematography of Musuraca in BLOOD ON THE MOON is soooooo dark. Really amazing work. And looks so good on Mitchum, where Musuraca also lit him in the amazing Noir, OUT OF THE PAST.
Mitchum was the personification of conflict and a burden of personal demons. He needs to say so little. He acts with the look of his face, the way he carries his shoulders, the simple movements of his body.
Murray Hamilton was fantastic as the Mayor. When you watch this film 100 times you become invested in all details of the secondary characters. He carried well all that conflict of his position under the circumstances.
I want that powder blue sport coat with the anchors on it.