From out Books, movies and music section: Matt Damon and the Bourne movies, always good…
From The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/14/the-bourne-identity-surprise-hit-changed-action-film-making?
From our Books, movies and music section: Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972), a powerful anti-war film from director Kinji Fukasaku, about a woman’s travails in seeking the truth about her Japanese soldier husband years after WWII has ended…
Well worth a watch. From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Flag_of_the_Rising_Sun
From our Books, movies & music section: Sapiens, a fascinating read on the history of mankind, how we got here (spoiler alert: nothing God-given) & how the future will probably not be what we think it will be…
A definitely recommended read, by Yuval Noah Harari.
From our History section: it’s the birthday of poet and Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, who said, “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them”…
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky
From our Books, movies and music section: Gary Cooper (High Noon, For Whom The Bell Tolls and other classics) was born on this date in Helena in 1901…
From History: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gary-cooper-born?
From our Books, movies and music section: on this date in 1941 a movie well worth watching, Citizen Kane, came out…
Almost everything Orson Welles did was worth a watch.
How to have less of an impact on the planet, while making your life pleasantly simpler, from the Zero-Waste-Chef…
From the Zero-Waste-Chef: https://zerowastechef.com/2022/04/13/buy-less-but-better-method/
Cancel culture and censorship are in overdrive, as right-wing extremists seek to ban books in schools…
From the Daily Montanan: https://dailymontanan.com/2022/04/09/more-than-1500-books-have-been-banned-in-public-schools-and-a-u-s-house-panel-asks-why/?
Smokescreen: a new book explores wildfires, including why conventional logging and thinning can make things worse…
From The Revelator: https://therevelator.org/myths-wildfires-hanson/
From our Books and music section: The Courier is a well-done, true story Cold War spy thriller, worth a watch and see if you can catch the reference to Montana…
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Courier_(2020_film)