Two films by Thom Andersen

I watched Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) several years ago. It’s an excellent film about movies set in LA.

I just watched Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) and realized later that both were done by the same director. Muybridge was a 19th-century pioneer in photography of people and animals in motion. The documentary is excellent and has many examples of his work.

Both films are available on discs which is how I watched them.

I haven’t watched it yet but this is Andersen’s 2010 short Get Out of the Car, also about Los Angeles.

Polls continue to show that Trump is unpopular

Covers: Carnival Time

“Carnival Time” (1960) is a New Orleans record by Al Johnson. More on it here.

Terrible Washington Post opinion column on mail in voting

It’s pro-Trump trash. I still subscribe to the Post but it’s getting hard to justify it.

Why Trump has a point on mail-in voting

My comment on the Post site:

Why is Newsom pushing a “wildly aggressive new gerrymander” in California? It’s in response to a comparable gerrymander in Texas. Republicans started this, not Newsom, but you are too biased to say so. Pennsylvania doesn’t count mail-in votes until election day which could cause public concerns about the results. Why is that? Republicans wouldn’t agree to counting them earlier unless Democrats made concessions.