A sobering thought today: Tom Cruise’s first Mission Impossible film and John Frankenheimer’s Ronin are now the sort of espionage thrillers my teenage son looks at the way I looked at the Cold War spy movies of the 1960s when I was his age.
Category: Micro
The category for all posts which are tweet-like in nature.
Time to watch the (second) series finale of #StrikeBack.
Unbidden, and with no input from me, my middle child asked if he and his younger brother could watch “the last #StarWars movie” (Rise of Skywalker), and now this #GeekDad is on the couch a little verklempt.
I was excited to learn last week about this documentary of @bloodgoodband, one of my favorite Christian metal bands from when I was a teenager/early 20-something, and it arrived today. Well done, Paul Michael Bloodgood, on capturing your father’s and his friends’ work!
“Boys. It’d be a shame to have to kill you now.”
The great Bernie Casey. RIP.
“That was a static-filled, triple-scrambled microwave transmission between two soldiers talking in Mandarin Chinese.”
“The Chinese were only using a simple polyphonetically grouped 20-square-digit key transposed in boustrophedonic form with multiple nulls. I broke it with this.”
“A Drogan’s decoder wheel? They put these things into cereal boxes for kids!”
“Yeah, I found it in a box of … Lucky Charms.”
“Wait. Is someone in this closet?”
Can you guess what I’m watching?
