Testset

Another year, another SXSW notch on the belt. As usual most of the films your humble scribe watched were above average but natch some quality films getting press are the ones I missed.

SXSW Online 2021 Short Takes What was truly missed though was the vibe of being amongst literally thousands of like-minded viewers. The thrill of seeing a true star like Paul Williams or Tom Skerritt or Emily Mortimer or Jason Schwartzman in the hallway of a convention hotel and briefly grabbing their ear was non-existent.

The best movie you could watch right now is the one you haven’t heard of.

Film: Everything You Know is Wrong “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” the latest work from Curtis, is readily available on Youtube as well as BBC iPlayer, the latter of which is a BBC platform with streaming capability showcasing existing Beeb programing and original content.

Attempts at blaming these outages on emerging “green technologies” like wind turbines are crass and transparent efforts at deflection.

ERCOT: It Was Never About ‘Reliability’ (or Wind Turbines) In the perfect storm of the first ‘Winter Storm Warning’ issued in the history of the state of Texas, few things are as damning as the flaccid incompetence of the state agency bearing the misleading name “Electrical Reliability Council of Texas”, AKA ERCOT. But few things as well were any le...