The Long Road Out

Just a place to capture films that took my breath away...films for the ages...send your suggestions on the greatest films on your list! This is England-- if your dad is killed in Maggie Thatcher's Falkland Island silliness, and the only replacement you can find is a group of skinheads, you need to grow up very very fast.   Beautiful coming of age story...and the best slow-mo gangster walk this side of John Travolta. Away from Her-- what it means to be forgotten...and then rejected.  I hated Tom Wilkerson for months after seeing this...not that he'll remember... The Last Waltz-- songs of our lives.   Worth it to see Robbie Robertson, not to mention a blotto Neil Young trying to grope Joni Mitchell... Days of Heaven --Terrance Malick directs Richard Gere, Brook Adams, and Sam Shepard==and don't forget the voiceover and Leo Kottke soundtrack.   Beauty makes you healthy... Breaker Morant --Australian infantry officers take the fall for British colonial malfeasance-...

I'm noting an experience my partner had during a taped Peloton workout over the weekend.  She's still researching the event, and has reached out to Peloton directly, so there will be updates and more to come. My sense is that there's no blame here to Peloton--instead what occurred results from the tendency for men to behave stupidly when they think they're part of a large group, or "anonymous." Here are the details: my partner was doing a 45 minute ride.  As is always the case, you can sign on to scheduled new rides on Peloton, or pick from a library of zillions of recent live rides.  When you do a recorded workout, you're riding against the leaderboard from the live ride. For whatever reason, the instructors normally call out select achievements from those participating in the live ride (recorded session riders get to hear those call outs, even though those riders have long moved on to other sessions).  Anyone with a Peloton is familiar with expressions l...