This trailer for "Spenser Confidential" looks great!
The Netflix movie coming March 6 stars Mark Wahlberg, Winston “Black Panther” Duke, and Alan Arkin.
I wasn’t sure about the movie after reading on Wikipedia that it’s only very loosely based on one of the Spenser books and merely “uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker.” I’m a huge fan of the novels, and I was afraid this would be travesty.
But the preview looks great. It has some hints of the novels and the Parker characters, and that’s all – but that’s enough. It looks like it’s going to be its own thing.
A few months ago we re-watched Beverly Hills Cop I and II, and I rewatched Midnight Run. And I’ve seen 48 HRS many times, also Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. I was commenting a few weeks ago that they don’t make action-buddy movies like that anymore. Well, looks like they did this time.
Juniper Returns to Growth – No Thanks to Service Providers lightreading.com My latest on Light Reading: Juniper returned to growth in its fourth financial quarter, but cloud and enterprise had to carry the stumbling service provider sector.
You look like you’re having a tough day so here is the Addams Family dancing to Joy Division’s “Disorder."
Cory Doctorow: Climate denial has destroyed the libertarian movement boingboing.net
The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won’t speak to another human until Monday’ theguardian.com
Paula Cocozza: “For growing numbers of people the weekend is an emotional wilderness where interaction is minimal and social life non-existent.”
The iPad is fantastic but also disappointing daringfireball.net
Great short essay by John Gruber. Among other things, he perfectly captures why iPad split screen, slideover and multitasking confuse the jeebers out of me and I almost always don’t bother.
Ivanka tells donors she got her moral compass from her dad politico.com
Only Monday and we already have the headline of the week.
Trump Impeachment: A Ukraine Smoking Gun Exposes Republicans bloomberg.com The White House knew Bolton’s book was coming, but they let it blindside their Republican Congressional allies anyway.
Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez was suspended after tweeting a link to an article about Kobe Bryant’s rape case, following up with screenshots of the hate mail and death threats she received. vox.com
Is Corona Beer experiencing the AIDS/Ayds effect? [boingboing.net]
Mark Frauenfelder: Ayds was an appetite-suppressant candy popular in the 1930s-80s with the misfortune to have the same name as a fatal disease. The unfortunate nomenclature proved fatal to Ayds.
Seeing reports about a woman physicist who developed a theory of gravity that, if proven, would fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.
If only there were a song to commemorate this event, a Broadway type anthem about female empowerment and defying gravity.
"Spenser Confidential," a movie based on the Robert B. Parker novels, hits Netfllix March 6.
It stars Mark Wahlberg as Spenser and Winston “Black Panther” Duke as Hawk. “It is very loosely based on the novel Wonderland by Ace Atkins, and uses the names of characters created by Robert B. Parker.” Spenser is an ex-cop and ex-con and Hawk is an MMA fighter. wikipedia.org
Okaaaaay. What the hell, I’ll watch. I loved the early novels and the later ones are fun.
It’s an action-comedy directed by Peter Berg.
Also: Appreciating Robert B. Parker’s Spenser thrillingdetective.com
Quiz: Which of these 2020 Democrats agrees with you most? I came out Mayor Pete and Yang, which wow. [washingtonpost.com]
I do not support Mayor Pete – the best thing I’ll say for him is he’s inexperienced; other days I just hate him.
I don’t know much about Yang.
On many of these issues, I picked a side but really I don’t know. For example, on health insurance I strongly support a public option. Should we then outlaw private insurance? Don’t know. Let’s see how the public option works first.
Should the US expand nuclear power? Let prisoners vote while they are still in prison? Limit or better regulate fracking? Don’t know.
I support Sanders and Warren. But I don’t have a strong investment in the primary. I’ll vote for and support whichever Democrat wins. The only ones I actively dislike are Pete and Bloomberg. And I’d vote for, and support, them too.
Until recently I was anti-Biden too. But the recent Times interview, and discussion of his philosophy on Vox, causes me to think twice about that. Biden’s philosophy is that in American governance, sometimes to get what you dearly want you have to vote for something you hate. He may be right.
I treat elections like a job interview. I am often uninterested in the candidate’s positions, but interested instead in how they arrived at their positions.
