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A Few Visits and Revisits - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton

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      Thursday I celebrated my fifth birthday for the twelfth time. At least that occurred to me as what I should have done. My fifth birthday was the one where I'd had the epiphany that growing up was a trap - a raw deal - and told my mom this was just the right age. I wanted to stop there, where it was good.        Oh, if only.       Anyway, instead I was dragged through it for another fifty five years, and ended up spending too much of my 60th birthday in work. Still, not a bad day, and I had a few, good conversations... almost none of which had anything to do with this week's titles.       Some follow-up notes from last week :       Watched the first episode of the horror series Them (on Amazon Prime), enjoying it but finding the themes too intense and off-putting for me to want to binge, despite the full first season being there. As expected, the borderline psychotic cruelty ...