Author: John Meola
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Jacques Tati — Les Vacances de M. Hulot
The other night my wife and I got to watch Les Vacances de M. Hulot, the breakthrough film by French mime and comedian Jacques Tati. It was the Criterion Collection version released on TCM. This version was a little different than earlier versions I had seen; it was the original ninety-eight minute release from 1953.…
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June
Hard to believe that June is now upon us! The sixth month of the year, meaning that we are approaching the halfway point of 2025 and we start to enter that proverbial back nine. Soon 2026 will be looming larger and larger. It seems the older one gets, the faster the years go by. For…
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Lawns
My change in life circumstances has led me to a new discovery. I actually like lawn mowing. For me, lawn mowing was always a boring activity. Melissa volunteered to do it after work, but with the free time I now have thanks to the Great Tech Layoffs, I have assumed that role here at the…