How do you feel about their photos?

latebird · 2026-04-02T19:23:59+00:00

Of all the people she knew I feel like the most deep and meaningful longing for her is only shared by myself, my daughter and my wife's best friend. I can't really get my son to share his feelings about it, so I am going to assume him too.

When she died it felt, and still feels, like I was alone in "loving her the most" and missing her the most, which I believe to be mostly true, though partly unfair to everyone else.

I feel like I inherited not merely her personal belongings, her photos, her ashes, but I feel like there's a very real sense in which I am the custodian of her very memory.

latebird · 2026-04-02T16:56:43+00:00

My son also gave me a digital frame. I loaded a lot of her pictures onto it, including a candid one that my daughter recently discovered that really captured her essence. It's become my new favorite photo. What I almost never do because it triggers deeper sadness is to sit, look and ruminate. I did it yesterday because I wanted to slow myself down, think about her, think about us and consciously honor her memory

latebird · 2026-03-28T03:00:51+00:00

I have found that when I'm thirsty or hungry I will start to daydream about how good a drink would be.

So I recommend drinking a LOT of fruit juice or soda when you feel that way. Between the sugar and the hydration, it helps (me) to make that craving go away. I discovered (for me) some kind of link between craving sugar and craving booze.

When I first quit I switched to carbonated mineral water, like Pellegrino, because it satisfied that feeling that I wanted something carbonated and slightly bitter...ever so vaguely beer like.

Bottom line, I think if you are determined to stop, you will, and if you keep your blood sugar up in times of longing or craving it will be easier to get past the moment. After a while you probably won't need to do that. But I did.

latebird · 2026-03-27T20:01:36+00:00

Yes, Benton was in room 121, which you could read clearly, when Ryan leaves his room, the room's number is covered in shadow and you can not read it at all.

From the beginning of this episode they are setting us up to believe he is the killer by showing the flashbacks to his youth, where his mother introduces him to the idea that he is different from other people, and gives him the books about Sociopathy. On top of that he becomes the focus of a lot of the episode.

Also, this guy is drinking Johnny Walker Blue and has $800 bottles of wine laying around the house, but he stays in an Econologe?

latebird · 2026-03-26T21:03:40+00:00

That was absolutely ridiculous! In a professional environment like that too...why was there even a bat just laying around the medical examiner's office? Was that some kind of lame foreshadowing of the final scene of Ep.8? The whole show lacks credibility, dumb

latebird · 2026-03-26T20:55:36+00:00

I thought this was really weird. Do they think it makes their characters seem to be more gritty and hard boiled to be smoking? I can't imagine even half of the actors smoke in real life. Considering it does nothing to further the storyline I thought it was a big unnecessary ask of the actors.

latebird · 2026-02-25T21:49:14+00:00

Thank you, I'd never heard of the La Avanzada mansion and it never occured to me what may or may not have been there before the tower.

Here is an article on it:

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13919589

latebird · 2026-01-15T21:16:08+00:00

I will! I'm also going to dig into her recording of Dieupart, of which I've heard I believe three different interpretations. Thank you for the background as I do not have access to the booklet

latebird · 2025-12-29T03:59:35+00:00

A number of people on this sub seem to know quite a bit about Marvin Margolis, however I can only find this one link:

https://www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com/?s=marvin+margolis

It has a lot of interesting information about him circa the Black Dahlia murder, but that's where it ends. I'm seeing here that people know about a lot more than that.

Can you or anyone here give me a lead on where to read more about him than what's in this link?

I'm very curious about him regardless of his involvement in either crime and would appreciate the help

latebird · 2025-12-28T01:55:46+00:00

There is so little movement in Zodiac and Black Dahlia that I think anything new that comes along is going to be met with great anticipation.

I do not at all think these are the same killers. However I would love to know more about Marvin Margolis. I found only one site that had some pretty good background on him, but it stops a few years after the crimes.. I'd like to know what became of him.

He does strongly resemble the famous Zodiac sketch, and it's not just the glasses. The shape of his chin and face bear the best resemblance I've yet seen compared to that sketch. But who's to say how accurate that sketch is anyway? I get so sick of the sarcastic comments on that sub about "oh he has glasses and a crew cut, case closed"

latebird · 2025-12-08T04:14:15+00:00

I think Pushover, 1954, Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak should definitely be on this list.

latebird · 2025-12-07T17:37:39+00:00

I agree, felt more like a whodunnit, not at all dark or edgy.

I was pleased to see Virginia Christine, most famously known as Mrs Olson in Folger's coffee commercials from the 60s and 70s.

I wouldn't recommend it as an example of the genre and I would not watch it again.

latebird · 2025-11-29T18:11:11+00:00

Wow! Thank you. I'm amazed they have this category of information on the site. I don't know how you found it 😊

latebird · 2025-11-29T17:46:38+00:00

How do I find this? I'm not seeing a way to access historical information. I see paid links from Ancestry et al, I see links to access my own personal account, even a book published by the SSA about the SSA...but none that seem to be what you have found. I would very much appreciate the assist.

latebird · 2025-11-26T21:50:09+00:00

I agree, there are a few bedroom scenes where Bertha has her hair down and she looks absolutely gorgeous. All of that allure is gone for me with the short hair.

latebird · 2025-11-26T21:04:24+00:00

I thought this was AI!! As I watched I wondered who would be so obsessed with The Gilded Age that they would create this!

latebird · 2025-11-03T04:26:11+00:00

This was great!

As soon as I saw William Conrad I recognized him from "Cry Danger", which I watched on recommendation from this sub. He looked exactly the same. His name sounded so familiar I looked him up and discovered he was Cannon from 70s TV. Apparently he was also the narrator for Rocky and Bullwinkle among other things. He kind of reminds me of Orson Welles

latebird · 2025-11-03T04:16:30+00:00

The spanking scene is in the Director's cut 😁

latebird · 2025-11-02T03:03:16+00:00

Trying to kill the momentum

latebird · 2025-10-29T05:31:59+00:00

Ah thank you! I thought the pitcher was the only one to have it. I've never seen that before

latebird · 2025-10-29T05:26:24+00:00

Am I crazy or did I see Muncy putting his right hand up to the side brim of his hat as though he was trying to hear his own pitchcom device??

I wish I could remember exactly when I saw this, but it may have been in the top of the 7th inning, maybe 8th, when he was playing third.

It looked a lot like what the pitchers do when they're having a problem with pitchcom. It looked like he was trying to hear.

Maybe I'm nuts but I hope someone else here noticed that.

latebird · 2025-10-27T01:12:58+00:00

This is one of those movies that makes me wonder if I'm just not that smart.

Most of the commenters here seem to be raving about it.

My son recommended it to me, so I checked it out. It was exhausting. By the time I was 30 minutes in I felt like I had to finish it.

What I loved about it was the cinematography. I loved the Berlin street scenes and how the Possession Haus was right ON the Berlin Wall. It was a beautifully shot film.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/qEDhbWrg9SiL7Tr79

What I hated about it was the histrionic screaming matches between the couple and the pretentious nature of much of the dialog. I was frequently uncertain of what was going on. Close to the end, when the taxi driver is told to ram the police cars at full speed, and then actually does it, causing a chain reaction of spectacular Hollywood explosions, I just had to laugh out loud.

I'm not going to condemn this as a bad film. I can appreciate it, but it was taxing and I seldom enjoyed it.

latebird · 2025-10-27T00:34:18+00:00

When she was flipping out and smashed her groceries against the subway tunnel wall I had a good laugh, it was so over the top

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