Happy New Year 2021 2/

...But this event touched every corner of the globe, every part of humanity, *every*thing!

Hopefully, things will slowly start getting back to normal, whatever that is. After all, that's what we always have, hope, right?

Wishing you and yours a safe and healthy 2021

📸: TBH

Happy New Year 2021 1/2

#HappyNewYear World!

Ya know, I was telling TBH this pandemic was probably our generation's World War...

...I mean, not, uh, a *war*-war, per se, but typically most of the world's conflicts have taken place in lands far, far away, while we watched them unfold on TV...

RIP Jed Dannenbaum

RIP #JedDannenbaum

One my favourite teachers. His infinite patience, gentle passion, ability to reach dunderheads like myself ignited a lifelong love for documentary filmmaking. The school named the famous alums he inspired, but his influence lives on in the rest of us too.

India Gets Remarkable Bounceback Away Test Win Over Australia

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#IND bounces back and thoroughly dismantles mighty #AUS...in Australia...in the famed #BoxingDay Test!

What a *captain*'s knock by #Rahane, great assist by (21yo😲!) #Shubman...&...wait for it...pace bowling...#Jasprit👏!

PS. The pleasingly prickly #RAshwin😁

#AUSvIND

Steelers Mount a Comeback for the Ages to Beat the Colts and Win the AFC North

🙏 #PhilipRivers...er, I mean a #Steelers comeback for the ages!

*Incredible* effort by defence: #Tuitt, #MikeHilton, #CamHeyward, & (#DPOY😇)#TJWatt👏

PS. So, #BigBen, #Diontae & esp #JuJu shut the hatas up, no?

#HereWeGo to the #AFCNorth title!

Wonder Woman 1984

#WonderWoman1984

So, a wish that gives you everything you want in the shortterm while destroying everything you love in the longterm…but enough about the WB release strategy🤣! Fun old-school romance/action-adventure. Good fun had by Wiig & Pascal. That Gadot-Pine chemistry😍!

Lakers Beat Mavericks for First Win of 2020-2021 Season

Perfect #Christmas, er, Holiday gift from #LeBron, er #Lakers(& #Schroder🤩!): a win over #Doncic, er #Mavs...

Sorry... #PixarSoul wrecked, er caused me too many allergy sniffles 🥺... maybe #WW84 can help me recover 🥳!

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays 2020

#MerryChristmas World, er, I mean #HappyHolidays!

A #Christmas, er Holiday Tree to bring you joy and, uh, good tidings(sorry, lyrics were never my strong suit)🤗

#LittleTokyo #LosAngeles #CA

The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

Look, I tried my best to get that #Jupiter~#Saturn #GreatConjunction...at the very least we got a beautiful #sunset over the #Pacific!

🪐🌍🌟💫☄️🌅🌊🏝

#LosAngeles #CA

Steelers’ *Shocking* Loss to Bengals

So an 11-win #Steelers team went down 0-17 to a 2-win #Bengals team with a 3rd-string QB... and the rest, as they say, is excruciating history 😩

Sigh, at least #BennySnell played well👍

#HereWeGo ...to 2 *tough* matches vs. #Colts & yappy #Browns 😬

11-Win Steelers Down 0-17 Against 2-Win Bengals Playing With a 3rd-String QB

#HereWeGo #Steelers...

... err, Steelers?!

Hello?!

Steelers?!

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A Bengali Roof with a View

Happy #Sunday everyone!

Please take your minds off that awful #AUSvIND loss and enjoy this scene of the #Bengali countryside from the family rooftop!

#Memari #Calcutta #Kolkata #WestBengal #Bengal #India

Clemson Thrashes Notre Dame to Win ACC

I'm no #DaboSwinney fan, but man was it fun to see #Clemson kick #NotreDame(& #BrianKelly)'s behind 😂

If #ND gets into #CFP over undefeated #USC you know either #NCAA's corrupt or #PopeFrancis had another miracle up his sleeve 😏

PS. #Trevor4Heisman indeed!

The Ecstasy... and the Agony of the Indian Cricket Fan!

Indian cricket a nutshell

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RIP Peter Alliss

RIP #PeterAlliss

Heard of him thanks to the books Baba had lined up on his shelf (a *lot* of golf books!) never realising until years later that he was a great commentator. Loved his lowkey, droll, cutting, humour...a remembrance of a genteel, gentle past.

#VoiceOfGolf

The Flight Attendant (HBO Max)

#TheFlightAttendant (#HBOMax)

Good, clean, ahem, airport-read fun! #KaleyCuoco's a revelation, #MichelleGomez, #ZosiaMamet& esp #RosiePerez steal the show. PS. Umm, beneath all that giddy whodunit fun, was the show actually about addiction, grief, PTSD, mental health issues😳?!

Liverpool Sensational Win Over Tottenham

😬😱😅🙏

Nervy/miraculous #Liverpool win over obdurate #Spurs!

Great #JordanHenderson corner & a *perfect* #Firmino header!

Where did this kid #CurtisJones come from🤩

PS. #Mourinho(& his monogram🙄)'s quite irritating, no?

#LFC #LIVTOT #YNWA

RIP John le Carré

RIP #JohnLeCarre

Sadly, I'm not much of a reader, but I always made an effort for the great JlC(thank you Pipi!). #TheSpyWhoCameInFromTheCold...Best Movie-Book Combo, Ever!...#TinkerTailorSoldierSpy...Best TV-Book Combo, Ever!...and so *many* others! Unforgettable, immortal...

Federer and Wawrinka Awesome Backhands

You can take #Federer's 1HBH and hang it(along with, ya know, the rest of his strokes) in *all* the museums as a work of art...

... but, OMBG, that #Stanimal backhand is a thing of brutal beauty 😳😵💪👊 💥 🎾!!!!

https://twitter.com/TennisTV/status/1338513998933872640/video/1

Mank

#Mank

The answer to the question who truly created the Best Movie, Ever![Tied]. E(I?)nquiring minds want to know…and they shall, over the course of many beautiful B&W hours, Oldman's pages of dialogue, and #AmandaSeyfried, #ArlissHoward, #FerdinandKinglsey stealing the show.

Steelers Dispiriting Loss to Unbearable Bills

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Yeesh! It started badly and ended worse (despite that fleeting #JamesWashington TD)

Hope this doesn't negatively impact #TJWatt's #DPOY candidacy😬

TIL #Collinsworth loves (tweeter)Josh Allen🙄

#Steelers #HereWeGo out of #Buffalo as quick as possible!

🙏 for #TunchIlkin

A View From the Hills

On a clear day you can see, er, Burbank? Glendale? Hollywood? The Valley(San-s Fernando or Gabriel?)? Mexico?

I dunno, geography was never my strong suit (despite our awesome C Form Geogo teacher, man, he really brought it to life!).

Views courtesy of my pal YD

#LosAngeles #CA

Citizen Kane (1941)

#CitizenKane (1941)

Best Movie, Ever! [Tied] Everything you've heard is true: dizzying editing, eye-boggling prod design, effects, inimitable Herrmann, script(still in arbitration😏?!), deep-focus(TM) *delectable* B&W cinematography…&, oh yeah, *every*thing-ing by #OrsonWelles!

Hillbilly Elegy

#HillbillyElegy

The much-awaited peel-back-the-curtain deep-dive into the scourge of Appalachian opioid addiction…in Ohio?! Wha?! 😲 Nice work by DP Alberti, #GlennClose, #AmyAdams...& esp #HaleyBennett who steals the show & whose story is the one which should've been explored.

India Wins Away T20 Series Over Australia

Great T20 series win for #IND over #AUS(in Aus!) & the Tests are next (g*d bless, test matches in this day and age!)

But, the headline: it's #Hardik's #cricket world, we just live in it! (Even the #IPL was the #PandyaBrothers's too, right?)

#AUSvIND

Steelers Lose Ugly Match to Washington

Ugh...an ugly loss against an ugly team #WFT

Sigh, let's hope #JoeHaden & #Spillane are okay 🙏

#HereWeGo #Steelers to one of the worst places on Earth (I speak from experience...)... #Buffalo😬!

Steelers Get Merciful Win Over Ravens (Finally!)

#Steelers win..final-bl**dy-ly!

Thank G*d for #JamesWashington😬, #JuJu, #BennySnell &, of course, Defence(#JoeHaden & #DPOY #TJWatt)

Boy, #NFL sure bent over backwards to accommodate those awful #Ravens

#HereWeGo...to 8 matches in 11 days😳!

TIL #Collinsworth *loves* Ravens

Antebellum

#Antebellum

Good, clean #Westworld-Meets-#TheVillage fun. Oodles of slick craftsmanship by the young directors on display, just a matter of time before Hollywood hands them the key to a franchise. Fabulous work by the DP, composers, costumes. Malone & Sidibe are great fun.

Medvedev Beats Thiem to Win 2020 ATP Finals

Congrats to #Medvedev, future trivia answer(beat #Djokovic *&* #Nadal). H*lluva 2020 for #Thiem!

Changing of the guard, no? Lotsa fun, exciting, nervy, sitter-2nd-serve #tennis in store, no one in USA will watch, but it'll be h*lla entertaining!

PS. #Schwartzman💪!

#ATPFinals

Roadkill (PBS)

#Roadkill (#PBS)

To paraphrase Tony Reali, Stop me if you've heard this before: a charismatic politician...well, you know the rest. Delicious stuff from Hare, #HughLaurie, & cast filled to the brilled with terrific perfs, esp #ShalomBruneFranklin & scene-stealing #HelenMcCrory.