Mary K

61st Chicago International Film Festival - All Films The Chicago International Film Festival is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America.

I have made my list (8 so far) and trying to plot which ones I want to volunteer for (year... 7? 8? Here I come!)

Can't wait for the Fest to return

www.chicagofilmfestival.com/festival/all...

And guess who just booked some Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow for next month 💅🏻

@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

*taps mic*

I know this thing is still on, but I haven't been around here as much lately -- between work and life I've been forgetting to switch over to here so here's a small pic-cap of the last few months of adventures. And I'll try to be around here more.

North Side dry cleaning business damaged in fire CHICAGO — A dry cleaning business on Chicago’s North Side sustained significant damage in a fire Friday. The fire broke out in the 4900 block of North Damen in the city’s Ravenswood nei…

It was Crystal Cleaners on Damen by Winnemac Park

wgntv.com/news/chicago...

There were just 3 firetrucks going down Damen (unsure where they went past Leland and Lawrence) with lights and sirens

I was delighted to see them!

Omg Mikey!

#Oscars

Yes, as Sean Baker says, and as the literal name of our website suggests, everyone should watch movies in theaters, studios should release them into theaters, and parents should give their kids the magic of seeing a movie in a theater EVERY CHANCE THEY GET.

Sean Baker winning (deservedly) the #Oscars during #Filmspottingfest weekend (where Tangerine played and Sean sent wishes) was great timing

May we continue to do good things to deserve Colman Domingo #Oscars

VERY MUCH

Not saying you will definitely win an Oscar if you are on our cover, but it doesn’t hurt!

Justice for CHALLENGERS

A sign from the Riviera theater Jam&c ollecti v pre e sen t s Death PAC From DA RK NE SSCOME SLIGHT FEB22 TO UR 930PM

It was probably the wind but also either this sign had a few too many or I had (and I was stone cold sober, lol)

Red drapes and a projection of "Filmspotting Fest"

Street shot of a painting at The Music Box Theater

Music Box Theater Sign reading Filmspotting Fest BRICK with Rian Johnson

Celebrating #filmspotting, the arts, and local business that makes this city damn amazing. The community that @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social cultivates and nurtures is the best.

Also happy 20th Filmspotting -- I've been here since practically the beginning and I'll be here another 20 more 🥂

A spool of sodder, a soldering iron and two stained glass soldered flowers are on a brown table top

A hand holds two stained glass flowers, one with yellow and orange petals, the other with blue petals. In the background, blurry, are a work table and a soldering iron

Creating art where I can 🏵️🎨

It is happening again… ▵▵

@danielknoxmusic.bsky.social

The very first publisher I worked for, a couple of years before I started there, published MR DARCY TAKES A WIFE and somewhere in boxes of books I still have a ARC for Darcy and Elizabeth.

And if you live in Chicago, go and visit Goblin Market!

A value put on them and for those who have had to touch them at all know they're not the Holy Grail... Except...

Lol

You're welcome! I saw someone comment on it and then I spent my train waiting time and commute reading and thinking on it.

For big authors/big pubs like S&S they have the marketing power (and booktok influencers) to forego them, but smaller pubs don't and I think they can help ... But there's SUCH

There's a rogue "blurbs" in there lol. I think I was going to type that I have had a long relationship with blurbs! Lol

Booktok has helped take over some of that power and focus that blurbs had, and the S&S publisher makes good points -- and also says there still will be blurbs!

My inside baseball feelings and knowledge vs my pure book consumer/reader thoughts are ready for a debate

Are blurbs a racket? Is it trading on favors and cliques? Sometimes do they just get made up w the blurber signing off? Yes.

Are they meaningful? Do they move the needle? Can they help a book find the audience? Can they mean everything? Also yes.

I left before booktok became a thing, so maybe

I paused my podcast to read the comments and Quoted posts wrt S&S no longer requiring blurbs. Having spent over half my life in books (selling and pubbing) blurbs I'm torn on the decision and there are a lot of good /interesting thoughts. This thread hits on a lot of my feelings too

Under the Sycamore Trees: The Night ‘Twin Peaks’ Went Off the Air With the finale to the original run, David Lynch patched together pieces of a broken series and set the stage for the rest of his career.

For The Reveal I wrote about that last night TWIN PEAKS aired on broadcast TV, a finale that ended the show as daringly as it began and influenced the rest of David Lynch's career. (We're turning the whole week over to Lynch, so look for more soon.)

The Long Goodbye of David Lynch's 'The Straight Story' In 1999, Lynch defied expectations with a G-rated Disney movie based on a true story. It wasn't the departure it seemed to be.

For our week of David Lynch tributes, I wrote about the death-haunted THE STRAIGHT STORY and how it affirmed his genuine belief in love and human decency: thereveal.substack.com/p/the-long-g...

Are you a #sourdough baker if you've never cut your hand on dried starter you're scraping out of the jar?

(To be clear, I didn't cut my finger because I'm using a tool, a shard of dried starter got my knuckle 🤣)

I have not watched this in years and I really need to again. This is a great reminder.

I remember winning tickets to go and see it and dragging my mom with me because I needed someone to drive me (only had my permit, but was a film buff & on my high school quiz bowl team, lol)

I think I may have already put my intention out there but I think rupert's (aka #rupertthesoughdoughatarter) former account is going to become a feed and I'm going to bring some old posts and pics of him here