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Video Mondays: Peter Asher: Everywhere Man This documentary is almost like a real-life Forest Gump story, in that Peter Asher seems to have been in every part of the British pop music scene of the 1960s.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/video-mondays-peter-asher-everywhere-man/

Video Fridays: Lahaina Shoreline No movie review today (though I would highly suggest seeing the following movies before they depart theaters:... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/video-fridays-lahaina-shoreline/

Video Mondays: The Odyssey & Matt Damon’s Nth Attempt to Get Home Waiting for the three hour extravaganza to begin... got my popcorn, gonna hold back on my Diet Snapple as long as possible, three-hour movie and all. ... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/video-mondays-the-odyssey-matt-damons-nth-attempt-to-get-home/

Video Fridays: What is Maddy’s Secret? I saw this one with my friend Jen and she called it quirky. I’d say, interesting story about an online food influencer who has an eating disorder.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/video-fridays-what-is-maddys-secret/

A Computer/Photographer Road Warrior Contemplates a Backpack Upgrade Given how many days I’m going to be away and how things were less than satisfactory when I last traveled to Hawaii taking only my iPad as my travel computer, I needed to revisit whether I need to upgrade my computer/tech/camera bag situation.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/a-computer-photographer-road-warrior-contemplates-a-backpack-upgrade/

Another Summer Blogging Reassessment I just got my bill for the year’s WordPress blog hosting. This happens every time. You’d think I’d be impervious to seeing the amount.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/another-summer-blogging-reassessment/

Video Fridays: Toy Story 5, Friendship & the Value of Unstructured Play I grew up in an era with parents where the idea of “play” was marginally tolerated, if only as a means to get us kids out of the parents’ “hair.” And even then, it was the reward for having completed all of one’s chores and only allowed once all the work needing to be done had been completed.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/video-fridays-toy-story-5-friendship-the-value-of-unstructured-play/

LEGO Build: Hotel-to-Church-to-Movie Theater All day Saturday (from noon to past 6AM this morning), I worked on upgrading/redesigning the city’s movie house.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/07/lego-build-hotel-to-church-to-movie-theater/

Video Mondays: “Back in My Day” Authors & Word Processor Edition This one popped up in my feeds and hit me like a nostalgia bomb. It probably doesn’t help that a week ago I was struggling to get a version of Windows running on my Mac Studio so that I could retrieve AskSam files containing journals that I wrote in 1997.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-mondays-back-in-my-day-authors-word-processor-edition/

Video Fridays: The Skill of Reading in a Short Attention Span Digital Age Growing up in the 1960s I was not a “reader” as a kid. Being the middle kid of five it was important that I kept my head on a swivel and maintained “situational awareness” of whatever was going on in our busy household (even though I would not know that phrase for decades).... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-fridays-the-skill-of-reading-in-a-short-attention-span-digital-age/

Video Fridays: The Infectious Joy of Anna Lapwood, Organist This one popped in my feeds and I immediately identified with the artists love of her art and how the art feeds this thirst to know or experience more through this medium.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-fridays-the-infectious-joy-of-anna-lapwood-organist/

Video Wednesdays: Intentionally Disorienting Back Rooms Wow. I knew that this was listed as a “horror” film, but not from the tradition of slasher films (which I’m not a fan of).... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-wednesdays-intentionally-disorienting-back-rooms/

Video Mondays: Disclosure Day Opening weekend, I skipped the 11AM SMC: Do the Right Thing, because I wasn’t sure I was up for a “double feature.” Having come to this neighborhood theater for several months I was a bit surprised by the lack of a crowd, albeit I am here more than 20 minutes early.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-mondays-disclosure-day/

Video Fridays: The Art of LIFE Noble Notebook Manufacturing This one popped up in my feed and I found the video very meditative. I think that it’s the combination of handcraft and small factory work that I found mesmerizing.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/video-fridays-the-art-of-life-noble-notebook-manufacturing/

LEGO Build: Brick-Built Building Signs After I finished building Avengers Tower yesterday, I wanted to do some things that needed be done for the buildings that will be hard to reach once I get the train tracks in.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/lego-build-brick-built-building-signs/

LEGO Build: Avengers’ Tower (76269) I skipped this mornings Atheist meetup (at the downtown Capitol One Cafe) in part because I didn’t get to sleep until 4AM and woke up with a bit of a scratchy throat.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/lego-build-avengers-tower-76269/

The Chaos & Fog of Glendington [A Short Story] The day began with the kind of thick grey fog that made walking dangerous, but it was his routine, even on vacation, to begin the day with a nice brisk walk, fog be damned.... https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2026/06/the-chaos-fog-of-glendington-a-short-story/