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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 02:37:10 JST Kim Scheinberg

   I've reread Stephen King's _The Body_ far more times than I've watched the movie it became*. It has so many poignant resonant quotable lines about friendship—the kind you can only have at ten

   But as someone who still buys Pez by the pound, I love that this is what made it onto the poster

   RIP Rob Reiner

   *this is true of another novella in King's quadrilogy Different Seasons—Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—whose movie adaptation is the #1 movie of all time on IMBD. I prefer the novella

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 02:52:22 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @kims There's a wild bit of videogame trivia attached to that movie. In the original Pokémon game and a couple subsequent ones, the TV in the player's house is playing Stand By Me.

     Why this movie of all movies?

     Apparently, it's a bit of a cultural touchstone for a generation of Japanese people because it was used in a fairly popular "Learn English" module, with the module capstoning at watching Stand By Me in English (I assume because the reproduction rights were reasonably cheap and the protagonists are about the age demographic of the students in the curriculum, but that's just guessing).

     Where am I going with this? I think it's interesting that we can't ever really know where the things we put into the world are going to go. Might as well try to predict the path of one gust of wind. Or the eventual resting place of a sunbeam.

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     Dave Nanian (dnanian@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 19-Dec-2025 22:41:44 JST Dave Nanian

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     @kims Wait—you can buy Pez by the pound?!?