Alex Ludwig

Group of four posters: "Weapons," "Naked Gun" (2025), "Together" & "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

Sometimes you've got to soften the blows of the horror films with some comedies!

**by the way, you <have> to see "Weapons" in a theater.

At the top of South Bubble at Jordan Pond

Me, on the Beehive hike, with my wife clinging to the stone cliff and my son tempting fate

At the top of Dorr Mountain.

The Bass Harbor Lighthouse

Did so much hiking in Acadia this week. All the classics (Beehive and the Bubbles), plus a few new ones to us, Dorr Mountain and the Bass Harbor Lighthouse.

Hmmm

Same! Finally saw “Together” and really loved it.

a woman is smiling in front of a netflix ad Alt: Alison Brie slyly smiling, in a gif from Glow

I saw “Together” tonight, and it definitely falls into the #5 category (don’t open, or drink in this case, the obviously haunted thing), but also falls into the sub group of “ewww….gross” while finishing with a touch of #4 (final girl finally survives, sort of).

The trolls at the botanical garden in Boothbay Harbor, as well as the garden itself, should not be missed!

Landscape photo of the Portland Head Lighthouse

Portland Head Lighthouse

Picture of a bookstore when a shelf titled, “Stephen King and others”

When in Maine…

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(S1E5—”White Rabbit”) After seeing Jack’s dad at a distance, I asked my son who he thought it was. My son replied, “Locke…? The smoke monster?”

If he only knew!!

Picture showing a box set of 13 films directed by Mario Bava, and its accompanying poster and booklet.

Baby’s first Bava Box Set.

Large circle cut into a yard filled with dirt

Large circular seating area with pea gravel on the finished surface, surrounded by retaining wall stones.

"Look, I made a hat (fire pit)...where there never was a hat (fire pit)."

Science requires you to find out.

They always know!

(S1E2) My son: “It’s a polar bear! It’s a polar bear?? It’s…a…polar…bear”

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Showing my 12-yr old LOST for the first time and he’s immediately invested. During every ad break, he asks, “Is he/she gonna die?”

It’s taking every iota of my body not to allude to All The Things.

have you seen the poster that John Lennon says was the inspiration for the song?

do you have a time stamp? Not saying I don't want to watch the entirety of "The Cat from Outer Space" but I'm not not saying it either.

Four movie posters: Fantastic Four, the original Ring, The Mousetrap, and Raising Arizona.

It’s been a chaotic week, in more ways than one.

<if> Congress comes back

Seeing it projected for the first time this weekend!

for the daytime crowd, I found <another> Dies Irae this time in "Raising Arizona" (score by Carter Burwell).

Ok…do you hear it in the film? I could only really find it in the “extended” version online.

in honor of the most recent @blankcheck.bsky.social podcast with @hodgman.bsky.social on the Coen Brothers' "Raising Arizona," I present to you a pretty clear Type 2 "Dies Irae" (my first Carter Burwell score on the list).

guess I figured out what I'm watching this afternoon!

Watched it again today to confirm that I really **dislike** this score.

Yikes.

overhead shot of chicken cutlets with lemon pieces and chives

Was forced to eat this chicken piccata all by myself last night because my son's trumpet teacher marked his lesson in central time instead of eastern... c'est la vie.

It's almost syllabus-making time, so I wanted to highlight a way Palgrave makes it easy for your students to get an affordable paperback copy of books your library has in ebook format: our MyCopy program.

It's opt-in, so tell your librarian you want X title

www.springernature.com/gp/librarian...

Composers should have to pass a test to use the themes of John Williams in their scores.**

**this post written immediately after seeing the new Superman film , obviously.

is this a good thing? or a bad thing?

Script from the musical “1776,” in which Thomas Jefferson describes why King George is a tyrant.

Continuation of conversation between Jefferson and Dickinson about the King’s tyrannical traits

Posting this particularly trenchant quote from my annual viewing of “1776.”