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In April 1975, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a software company named Microsoft. They started out selling programming languages and other tools for the MITS Altair 8800. Eventually, Microsoft created the operating system for the IBM PC: MS-DOS. (IBM renamed it PC-DOS.) The popularity of the IBM PC led to MS-DOS becoming the best-selling operating system in the world. Microsoft followed that up by releasing Windows. And the rest is history.

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You can read all the books about “Midnight Cowboy” you want. You can watch the documentary. But nothing is as impactful as actually viewing the remastered film, as I had the pleasure of doing at Film Forum recently. Despite its X rating, it won the Oscar for best film in 1968, and ranks high on my list of best films of all time. What makes MC so highly respected is that it isn’t just one movie, it’s many.

I’m not a huge horror fan. So much so that my wife and I have to take turns picking spooky movies every year so I can get my campy kids Halloween movies and she can get her horror fill. I think my distaste comes from the anxiety associated with the genre that also includes a heavy handed and not particularly relevant message. That said Ari Aster has a way of splicing genuinely funny awkward moments into an incredibly tense situation (I laughed every time an argument about a thesis paper came up).

Let us begin today with the premise that “Mike Johnson” is a pretty funny name for a Christian nationalist Republican lawmaker who shares accountability software with his son to monitor each other’s porn intake. That’s just good comedy right there. Let us also stipulate that our new Speaker of the House looks like a Mike Johnson. He’s handsome in a banal kind of way, his look reminiscent of a 1960’s social studies teacher that maybe used to date the Home Ec.

Installment 11: “When Mike Trout reported to spring training in mid-February 2020, he had more career WAR through the age of 27 than any player in Major League Baseball history.” —Me OR "Since 2014, Mike Trout's 151 home runs are the fourth most in baseball." —Fun Fact on the Angels’ Stadium scoreboard, May 2018 1. When a game begins, Mike Trout is in center field. In the top of just one first inning, he: kicks grass, smoothes kicked grass, stares into his glove, fiddles with straps of glove, removes glove, checks the count on the left-field scoreboard, checks the hitter’s stats on the right-field scoreboard, randomly salutes at nothing, checks his belt at least 10 times, unclasps and reclasps it, salutes the number of outs to his corner outfielders, signals to the dugout to get his defensive positioning, spits a bunch, blows bubbles with his gum, feels his glove, taps his glove, takes a demonstratively deep breath, and keeps looking around like he thought he just heard somebody call his name, which, to be fair, happens a few dozen times a game just within his earshot.

“I know you want to talk to me about Christian Science, but I’ve always been hesitant to talk about it. I’m not ashamed of my membership—my study—of Christian Science, but so many people misunderstand or mistrust the religion, so I have become very secretive. I mean, Helen Hayes doesn’t get into arguments over being a Catholic, but I’ve had some unpleasant conversations. But I’ll talk to you about it, because it is true that Tennessee [Williams] did reach out to me, as he did to Edith Evans, to learn more about it.

Having dispensed with the marginalia, we get to the flavor! First of the ‘first great quintet’ albums - Miles + John Coltrane (sax) + Red Garland (piano) + Paul Chambers (bass) + Philly Joe Jones (drums) - and also the safest. Garland/Chambers/Jones lays the finest sound within 20 seconds (of “Just Squeeze Me”), and the album’s best parts tend to be intros — usually Garland and rhythm, though the full-band “Theme” opens on top of the world.

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