Netflix Would be Nothing Without the TFF

Netflix, the world’s film library, would hardly have worked for me if not for the Telluride Film Festival, which is coming up next week for its 38^th go-round.

Without the wisdom of the TFF, I would be stuck in first-run Hollywood hell, with a thin veneer of foreign-film awareness; my Netflix queue would be limited to Oscar favorites and the suggestions of movie reviewers – a dubious crowd.

A Kind of Madness

I maybe should have turned around when I got to the place where the spruce blowdown crisscrossed the trail like a giant’s pickup sticks.

Bargain Basement On High Hills

Before the start of last week’s auction that would deliver the Powderhorn ski area to the highest bidder, I asked one of the bid assistants why an auction? The whole idea seemed desperate to me – you know: “auctioned on the courthouse steps for some family shame” kind of thing.

Take That, Patriot Act!

The attacks in Norway two weeks ago by a right-wing extremist relate to my experience of that country only insofar as the pictures show a conventionally good-looking blond man. Out of a population of 4.9 million, there are probably 2 million good-looking blond men in Norway.