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Having finished reading "Enemies Within", all 500 or so pages of it, we are now on to "An Inconvenient Death" by Miles Goslett, being a retelling of the unfortunate demise of one Dr. David Kelly.
Passing the time by re-reading some of Dorothy Parker's late 1920s book reviews for the New Yorker, which has led me to the story of the alleged kidnapping of Evangelical preacher Aimee Semple McPherson: Reported kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson - Wikipedia
This evening's previously unwatched major motion picture was The Prestige (2006), concerning a feud between some Victorian prestidigitationists, with Tesla (who I didn't realise was played by David Bowie, but he was) making an appearance with some technology that was impossible even for Tesla, and Michael Caine coming along for the ride. Quite enjoyable I thought, if one's willing to suspend enough disbelief to go along with it; a bit like Now You See Me in that respect
And after that, as I fancied a bit of ridiculous mayhem, a rewatch of the extremely ridiculous and mayhemmy London Has Fallen (2016). Apparently some critics thought it was lacking in depth and excessively violent. What did they expect? Wordsworth among the daffodils?
By the by, IMDb has had a bug in the rendering of its search results for several weeks now whereby it repeats the querystring on links, such as (cut from the London Has Fallen link before pasting) ?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1. It doesn't break anything because that's an irrelevant querystring that they misuse for the purpose of tracking internal link usage, which was a thoroughly incompetent way of doing so when they first started doing that some years ago, and browsers are engineered to cope with incompetence from websites nowadays. But it just goes to show that if you start out by using incompetent techniques on your website, you'll end up with a website built in such an incompetent manner that you look like a laughing stock in the eyes of the world
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