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Peter Fish

@peterafish.bsky.social

Writer, editor, focusing on California and the American West.

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Michelle Yeoh

16.10.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please Don’t Eat The Daisies!

16.09.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

50% of compiler dev is typing the following incantation

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auto *node = worklist.back();
worklist.pop_back();
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continue;

11.09.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

12.09.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3912    πŸ” 859    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 29

TikTok Of A Lady

08.09.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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UConn closes seven academic programs, plans to review 70 more The decision comes as UConn looks to save costs.

Program cuts all ovir the US. Knowledge ys fading.
www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

17.08.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

And a nice late turn in Last Night in Soho.

17.08.2025 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. Shadow of a Doubt, Teresa Wright
2. Lifeboat, Tallulah Bankhead
3. Notorious, Madame Konstantin
4. Notorious, Ingrid Bergman
5. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Hitchcock
6. Rear Window, Thelma Ritter
7. Rear Window, Grace Kelly
8. North By Northwest, Cary Grant
9. The Birds, Suzanne Pleshette

13.08.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

White Heat

The Importance of Being Earnest

11.08.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Tribute Through a Friend’s Eyes An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s art gains depth when viewed alongside his longtime friend and colleague Paul Yamazaki.

The Legion of Honor’s Lawrence Ferlinghetti show celebrates legendary poet and City Lights founder’s artistic career. I saw it in the company of Paul Yamazaki, City Lights’ equally legendary book buyer. My piece in @altajournal.bsky.social
www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...

25.07.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One Highway. A Thousand Miles of Western Wonder. A 1,400-mile trip through several national parks takes a writer deep into his past.

"I want what only the best road trips give you: velocity and transcendence." β€” @peterafish.bsky.social hits the highway for @altajournal.bsky.social

www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

22.07.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Very sorry to hear this. I enjoyed your columns and learned a lot from them.

17.07.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hell Or High Water is great.

24.06.2025 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mad Ma

03.05.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. I Shall Be Released, The Band
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples

02.05.2025 01:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Friend

13.04.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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French lawmaker calls for U.S. to return Statue of Liberty - UPI.com A French lawmaker says the United States should return New York's Statue of Liberty because America now sides with "tyrants."

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" said Raphael Glucksmann, of France's Place Publique party. www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

17.03.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Pauline Kael on his comic cameo in Young Frankenstein:
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"

13.03.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Romeo and Juliet Prowse

18.02.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There goes the Monty Python reunion, the Milton Berle Tribute and screenings of Some Like It Hot

09.02.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's Up, Doc

18.01.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lovely sad story. Thanks for sharing it.

16.01.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
β€˜American Oasis’ asks if the future of the U.S. lies in the Southwest Journalist Kyle Paoletta explores five Southwestern cities β€” Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque and El Paso β€” to learn what they have to teach us in an era of global…

In his ambitious, sprawling, deeply reported American Oasis, Kyle Paoletta does a superb job of showing how the booming cities of the desert southwest may represent the American future. My review in the San Francisco Chronicle:
datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/americ...

08.01.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This unhinged rant is the worst thing the New Yorker has ever published.

03.12.2024 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Sa

29.11.2024 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Frances Lawton. Third chorine from the left in The Gay Divorcee's Let's Knock Knees.

27.11.2024 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always listen to Samantha Schoech

26.11.2024 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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