Well…need to write about something different after all of the pollution from trump so I think I’ll talk about movies for a change. It was always a goal of mine in the past to try to see all of the best picture nominees before the Oscars…that used to be much more difficult before the advent of streaming videos, when I used to have to actually go out to theaters to see them…and that was sometimes a crapshoot to have them all still playing after the nominations were announced. And it cost money…but, back then, I had it so no big deal…this year, I have 6 of the 7 movies that were nominated on my son’s server and I have already seen 3 of them. Okay, one of the ones I saw, Kubo and the two strings, was not a best picture nominee but is up for some technical ones but I wanted to see it anyway. That’s one of them that I watched last night…an animated film but definitely not for kids…a pretty seamless combination of stop action, CGI, and live action and it told a pretty good story, too…probably not to everyone’s taste but I like to be challenged by film sometimes. The second one I saw last night was LaLaLand….a modern take on the old style musical/romance that I thought was done very well…it looks gorgeous but Ryan Gosling can only sing about as well as I can and that is not saying much….the lead in number on a stalled freeway is pretty cool to look at and the whole movie didn’t disappoint me…got through the whole thing and that is saying something these days.