Pasolini wrote a famous essay in 1975, “The Disappearance of the Fireflies,” which, at that time, was already starting to become very noticeable. Of course, the essay was really about capitalism.
Personally, outside my childhood in the countryside, I noticed fireflies in the outskirts of a largish city some 20 years ago, then nothing for a very long time, and then I saw a few when I lived for a brief period of time in a really remote place, like an hour from the nearest highway. No trains anywhere near, too.

Off-topic, but if you don’t know Pasolini, I urge you to read his last interview which seems particularly gloomy as it appears to foreshadow his own death just a few hours after.
One memorable quote:

I listen to the politicians – all the politicians – with all their little presumptions and I turn into a mad man as they prove they do not know which country they are talking about, they are as far away as the moon. And together with them there are the men of letters, the sociologists and the experts in any kind of field.

CrEdit: Sidney Harris

Isn’t that the plot of “Predestination”? If I understood it correctly.

Thanks. I’ve been wondering what Marilyn Manson has been up to lately.

Edit: Also, I think Karen Allen wore overalls at least once in Indiana Jones. Kinda hot, in an unpolished way.

This just in…

Because of car radio? Vertical integration, you know.

Where’s the photographer in the reflection?

I wouldn’t think they feel the need to be “given that right” by anything or anyone. Which is part of what makes them so toxic.

Certain antidepressants will make you balloon.
And, of course, you will feel a lot better.

It’s all fun and games until they literally atomize your entire body, assemble totally different atoms in a totally different place so they take on your former shape and call that “beaming.”

“Hey, my eyes are up here!”

That was… surprising.

Getting some flashbacks to this:

W.T.F.

♪ Get off
Twenty-three positions in a one-night stand
Get off
I’ll only call you after if you say I can ♪

Do you want to sell your house?
◻ Yes
◻ Ask me again later

The right hand of V-3’s Jim Shepard was pulled into a wood planer machine, resulting in significant damage to two fingers and minor injuries to others. After being rushed to the hospital, a plastic surgeon performed multiple surgeries, including two flesh grafts and a bone graft. The recovery process was challenging, involving his hand being temporarily attached to his groin to facilitate healing. Once they cut it loose again, he resumed playing guitar with the hand still completely bandaged and released one of V-3’s finest records, “Negotiate Nothing”, later that same year.

I just realized James Hong is still around. He’s pushing 100.

Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize you. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

BTW, I just now realized that Shelley Duval died last year. Such a great actress.