POTD: Trinidad meets Thailand

From 2025 03 22 Chiang Rai

Today's photo-of-the-day was taken in an Akha village near Chiang Rai, Thailand. These two people speak languages without a word in common, yet without a word, both could share a dance game that originated in the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Laughter is a universal language.

Bonus photos are after the jump.

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Rotten Tomatoes

Nouvelle Vague (2025): French. Richard Linklater's tribute to Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 classic New Wave movie "Breathless", matching its style perfectly. This movie's subject is Godard making the original movie, all the while explaining to his actors what he is after. Nouvelle Vague is must-see for film students. A-

Netflix

Breathless (1960)

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Breathless (1960): French. Jean-Luc Godard's classic New Wave cinema. Story of a charming but self-destructive anti-hero and the independent young American woman who falls in with him. Godard makes his small budget work for him—jump cuts, hand-held cameras, shooting on the streets of Paris. A+

HBO Max

#VeryTardyReview

Jay Kelly (2025)

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Jay Kelly (2025): Aging movie star George Clooney plays an aging movie star who is beginning to question his life choices. He is estranged from his wife and daughters and agent and everyone in his life. This obvious fact comes as a revelation to him. Clooney is upstaged by Adam Sandler. B-

Netflix

Richardson Needs a Premier Development

Source: Dallas International District.

"At long last, development is coming: six stories/296 luxury apartments of approximately 2600 square feet, ground floor restaurant and retail."
— Candy's Dirt

No, we're not talking about downtown Richardson, where we're going to get the ho-hum, sticks-and-bricks, four-story apartments (Polk Street Residences) with the least amount of "retail ready" space possible that still allows the city to call it mixed-use.

We're also not talking about Richardson's future Arapaho DART Station redevelopment, where we're going to get...who knows what?