Randomly, I lived in Fargo briefly (in the state your book is NOT set in) & they also have a restored movie palace downtown (w/a Wurlitzer organ) that does great stuff, including a film festival: fargotheatre.org They also have a wooden/chainsaw sculpture of Frances McDormand from yes, "Fargo"

I have *really* enjoyed moving to a small college town with a very active downtown booster organization (one of the leaders of that organization is an artist). We have a "regular* small multiplex on the edge of town and there are other multiplexes in the area, but I love the downtown theater.

Big community event earlier this year: local indie bookstore known for its in-house cat sponsored a screening of "Flow" -- 200+ attendees and they ran out of local-cat swag 🙂

I live a few blocks from a restored movie palace that does this (they are also the local community theater). Xmas movies in December, horror movies in October, other curated film programming over the year. This yr, for Charlie Brown Xmas showing, a live jazz band will play soundtrack afterwards.

(this did not happen to her here, this was elsewhere, I'm just nervous about letting strangers in as a result)

(I know a woman who was brutally assaulted by someone who knocked on her door. I DO NOT want to let a total stranger into my house, especially after dark.)

"It's the most terrible time of the year" -- weird self-own

I often think about this quote scrawled on the wall of Laurie Anderson’s Four Talks installation at the Hirshhorn in DC:

The theater I saw Titanic at, when it first came out, was running a "win a cruise!" tie-in sweepstakes. That... was not a movie that made me want to go on a cruise. (I assumed the idea was, go on a cruise & meet your own Leo, minus the whole boat-hitting-iceberg-not-enuf-room-on-the-door part)

Might run into some IRB issues with that....?

A thing that made me feel old: student did not know what "going Dutch" meant when I mentioned it as a search term for primary-source databases. Thought it was something dirtier (didn't specify what) than it actually is.

It's so important to keep accesbility in mind when you're writing social media captions.... ? otherwise your followers might experience perpxlexy!

I am the Gourmet Kitchen with no appliances or, well.... anything, wondering why the GREAT ROOM is hogging all my stuff.

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I mean obviously this is is Fargo, but also, not a muppet: theelectriccompany.fandom.com/wiki/Fargo_N...

that poor graduate student...