Category Archives: Movies

I’ll Find Some Music (Andy 3)

December 6, 2020Chicago, History, Movies, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, the 1988 film directed by Todd Haynes,
was prohibited from future exhibition in 1990, but bootleg copies continue
to proliferate online.

Hey Dude

August 23, 2020History, Movies, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

The word “Dude” had a strange historical journey before becoming a popular sign of young male solidarity, and Dudeism is now a serious philosophy inspired by the 1998 film The Big Lebowski.

The Reg

March 8, 2020Chicago, History, Movies, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

The University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library was constructed on the former location of Stagg Field in 1970.

MN Winter 2020

January 29, 2020Minnesota, MoviesPaul Mason Fotsch

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I often brag about visiting my Minn home in January, the coldest month of the year. Continue reading MN Winter 2020 →

Canonet

January 19, 2020Chicago, History, Movies, podcastsPaul Mason Fotsch

The Canon Canonet was an affordable 35 mm rangefinder camera first released in 1961. The Canonet G-III, released in 1972, sold over a million copies before being discontinued in 1982 and was used by the title character in John Waters’ 1998 film Pecker.