Mike’s Blog Round-Up

“What is a rebel? A man who says no.” — Albert Camus
By driftglass — January 31, 2025

Welcome to "The 606". Chicago's rail-to-trail Bloomingdale Trail. It has been hyperlapsed to give the video a perceived speed of 100 mph.

Digby's Hullabaloo: Another Win For Trump.

The Mahablog: Trump’s Spending Freeze, the Constitution, and WTF?

Free Thought Blogs: My depressing prophecy.

Attention space nerds, science fiction nerds and cinephiles! On this day in 1908, Excursion dans la lune (aka Excursion To The Moon) enjoyed its first theatrical exhibition ever. The 7-minute short film was written and directed by Segundo de Chomón. From IMDB: "Proving adept at every possible camera trick, Segundo de Chomón was brought by Charles Pathé to his studio at Vincennes, near Paris, to make trick films in imitation of Jules Verne (such as this one, inspired by A Trip to the Moon (1902))."

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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