OK, so I've finished the Year of Books and have started the Year of Movies. Of course, every year is a year of books and a year of movies, but I liked last year's experiment where I recorded all the books I read. This inspired me to designate 2026 as the Year of Movies, and I'll take the same approach. This morning I watched Albert Brooks's Lost in America, which I hadn't seen in forty years or maybe had never seen in its entirety. Considering where Janet and I are personally, and where America is on the macro level, it just seemed like a really good choice to start off this year of transition. Now, I just need to remember to not pass through Las Vegas so that Janet doesn't pull a Julie Haggerty and gamble away our next egg. The film is very funny, but also works as a not too subtle critique of the Reagan years. It's featured in a great collection on the Criterion Channel this month. Highly recommended.
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