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theodoradove · 10 months ago

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tfw when you read the acknowledgements for an academic text on an incredibly niche subject and realize the author is the brother-in-law of a grad school classmate (in a discipline that is only somewhat tangentially related to the book in question)

#i got to north beach too early for the bill irwin/freestyle love supreme show because anxiety #so i killed some time in city lights #and eventually remembered where their film section is #and came out with this book #which i then was able to share with my seat neighbor at the show #who turned out to be an antiques collector and the president of the jack benny fan club #we had a lovely chat #despite it being my SECOND social interaction of the day #storebought brain chemicals for the win #(the book is ink-stained hollywood: the triumph of american cinema's trade press by eric hoyt)

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