My reading for the last few days was BEWARE THE WOMAN, which was terrifying and beautiful. Of course, I am her mother.
TV: SUCCESSION, BARRY, TED LASSO, PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR (Tubi), THE DOGHOUSE (HBO MAX).
Happy birthday to my daughter-in-law, Julie Nichols, a great mother, daughter, wife. Julie works for Michigan Legal Services, representing people who can't afford an attorney.
What about you?
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Haven't seen any movies in the theater in months. Rio Bravo is considered a great western but I have never warmed to it. I never thought Dean Martin looked right in a western. And Ricky Nelson can't act.
On TV watching-From, Barry, A Spy Among Friends.
Read Ozark Fogs by Eli Cranor and Farewell Earth's Bliss by D. G. Compton (a sf novel from the the sixties). Not reading a biography of James Ellroy.
Weather has been nice. Mostly in the high 70's for the next week.
A super happy birthday to your DiL! And congrats to Megan; your unbiased take on her latest echoes those of people who are not related to her.
Our own birthday girl this week was Christina. Her first grade class gave her a little part and she, Walt, and Jack took a birthday vay-cay to Montgomery, Alabama, over the weekend; much time was spent in hot tubs, relaxing. She sent me a photo of a llama they had found, but my rat of a daughter did not bring it home for me.
On our animal front, things are well. Potato the hedgehog was pretty sick early on, but some antibiotics put him back in fighting form. Giving oral antibiotics to a recalcitrant hedgehog is an experience not to be missed. The animal shelter where Amy works started the week off with a rabid fox that had bitten three people (none at the shelter), and ended the week with a confiscated parrot named Piedmont. In addition to a vacabulary, Piedmont can meow like a cat and make growl noises. We were tempted but we did not adopt the bird.
School ends on Friday and Jack has his fifth grade graduation this morning. I'm not ssure when this sort of thing began. When I was in school back in the stone age, we did not have any of this stuff -- graduation was strictly for high school seniors. Now there's ceremonies for graduating from kindergarten, first grade, fifth grade, and so on. Today the kids go to primary school, intermediate swcholl, middle school, and high school. rather than elementary, junior high school, and high school; also we did not have public kindergarten or pre-K. I think I'm old.
Chritina, Mark, and I went to a pottery/ceramics class on Monday. Chritina is making a beautiful bowl, Mark is making a rather tricky goblet, and I am doing a dinky little tray for change that a third-grader would be ashamed to take home. It actually fun. We'll be glazing our works of art tonight.
Because last week's post vanished into the ether, I have a long list of books read over the past two weeks, which I will contue on another post. Stay tuned...
Happy Birthday to Julie! And I'm glad that your reading's been good, Patti. I would have expected no less of Megan - never been disappointed in anything of hers that I've read...
I'm looking forward to reading Megan's new book. Meanwhile I've fallen behind on my many Library books because of the recent trip to Ohio.
Katie and a friend saw Taylor Swift in concert last night in Foxboro. Patrick has Beyonce tickets for Vegas in August.
I hate this Debt Limit kabuki dance. We have so many problems yet we waste time and resources on a manufactured political problem. Dumb.
Diane hosts her Book Club this week. They're reading HANG THE MOON by Jeannette Walls...and they're all liking it. Stay safe!
It was a pretty scary book.
Yeah, I could have done without Ricky Nelson, but he sure was pretty. Walter Brennan was a lot of fun although I had trouble understanding what he was saying.
Jerry leads a very different life from the rest of us. You might enjoy DOG HOUSE if you get Max.
I have not seen a rock concert in 25 years, I bet.
The political situation in this country is headed off a cliff.
RIO BRAVO is one of Jackie's favorite movies. I liked it too, as did Bill Crider.
I'm afraid on Eric Rohmer, I'm in the "like watching paint dry" school. CLAIRE'S KNEE? Yawm.
Since there are so few concerts in New York this year by people we like, our plan is to see more shows. We have tickets every other week for the next month, starting Wednesday (we only go to matinees as a rule) with GREY HOUSE, which sounds like many horror movies. It's written by Levi Holloway and directed by Joe Mantello, and starts Laurie Metcalf and Tatiana (Orphan Black) Maslany, George's favorite. Also upcoming: KIMBERLY AKIMBO and FUNNY GIRL.
The Steve Earle concert was very enjoyable, with David Byrne, Terry Allen and Kurt Vile.
Watching as before - LUCKY HANK, FROM, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL, the various French shows, DALGLEISH, GRACE, plus BEYOND PARADISE (finished), POIROT and FOYLE'S WAR on Saturdays.
We added ROUGH DIAMONDS, set in Antwerp. The Orthodox Jewish Wolfson family has been dealing in diamonds for generations. When Yanki, the youngest son, kills himself, brother Noah, who left the firm, the family and his faith, returns home and has to deal with organized crime and a zealous prosecutor. It's mostly in Dutch and Yiddish, with English and French in some parts, 8 episodes on Netflix.
Since the third (and final?) series of HAPPY VALLEY (boy, is that name ironic) is being released this week, we are watching the first two series again. Sarah Lancashire was terrific in this one.
Been considering ROUGH DIAMONDS. I miss Shitsel.
It's worth trying. I miss SHTISEL too. I guess we're not getting that last series after all.
Up early this morning (for me), and we will be leaving soon to go pick up some shoes I ordered. Walking shoes and sandals, my feet are too bad to wear much else. While we are out we will go to our independent bookstore, Chaucers, but I probably won't buy anything because I have too many books.
Glen just bought a fantastic book of photographs from Blackwell's in the UK: JOHN ALINDER: PORTRAITS 1910-1932. I finished reading BAD ACTORS by Mick Herron, now I am ready for another book in that series. I started reading MURDER IS EASY by Agatha Christie, one of her standalone books, and am about half way through.
We have been watching: SLOW HORSES, DEATH IN PARADISE, the original CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, plus the new CSI: VEGAS series.
Happy birthday to Julie in Michigan and Christina in Florida. I would not mind seeing Montgomery, Alabama again. I am sure it has changed since I was there.
I want to see Jerry's list of books read.
Tracy, despite what that rascal George Kelly says, you can NEVER have too many books!
I give up. I tried three times to post the list of books I read and each time the internet ate them after first showing up on your feed.
Glad you liked RIO BRAVO, Patti. Along with ONE EYED JACKS it's my favorite western. So much more fun than the draggy self importance of THE SEARCHERS. Note how entertaining it is when nothing much is happening, and note the same thing in Hawks' other really good movies, which is most of them.
Jerry-if you sent it to me in an email, I can post it. pattinaseabbott@gmail.com
Tracy-last two pairs of shoes are unwearable because of this bone on the top of my feet.
MP I also like THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE, THREE GODFATHERS, SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON, THE UNFORGIVEN and many more. In my childhood, westerns reigned.
As long as I send an email with my post to myself (in fact, I don't even have to actually send it, just in the Send Later file), I don't seem to have problems with disappearing posts.
I just put it up on my own blog, Patti.
Yikes. Two cats are enough adventure for me at the moment, Jerry. One, our newer and more paranoid cat, decided to temporarily not be afraid of me yesterday, and came out from under one of the beds she (Whiskers, her previous keepers' name for her) likes to hide under, and go into a love fest on me, rubbing against and being petted and scritched by me, climbing all over me while I lay on the floor...alas, after an hour in a tight space on the wood floor, I had to rise, and she walked rather than ran away...but I haven't seen her since. I hope that won't be the last interaction we have for another month and a half. (She eats, drinks and uses her litterbox when not hiding...and will from her hiding places complain if I hang around my office for too long, so that she doesn't feel comfortable coming out to eat, since I'm still here.)
Happy birthday to your Julie, as well, Patti! Showtime Women has some films, even some directed by other men, that allow women to cry and whine...beyond such contexts that, say, Fran Drescher sitcoms or soaps/Hallmark movies/Lifetime Movies do...those on the Showtime channels tend to be A Bit Better, I'm suggesting.
Speaking of which, what keeps our fellows here sticking with FROM? Does it ever bother to explain much of anything? Then again, I couldn't tolerate the endless sulking teasing of YELLOWJACKETS, either.
I've been catching up with BREEDERS, THE PATIENT with Steve Carell, ASTRID, and sticking with SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, BARRY, WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS, and to some extent with A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW and BLINDSPOTTING, and hope that even TRUE LIES (on my bubble, and probably on CBS's), THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, WILL TRENT, ANIMAL CONTROL, DIGMAN! and MINX (also more good than great)--as well as the promised HIGHTOWN and SHINING VALE--will return for another season.
Though for some films of a certain age that allow women characters to be a Wide Range of things the "Hays Office" wouldn't allow for for decades, one can listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34OGCcw2Ck (1933 in film with guest a certain Detroit-area native). They do manage to forget it was Jane Wiedlin, powerful musician crush of mine, who was the Singing Telegrammer in CLUE.
Alice a bit under the weather. On the BRAT diet for the day.
Patti, my feet problems are bunions, plantar fasciitis (heel pain), and Morton's Neuroma (which actually has lessened over the years. I do have sensitivity on the top of my feet, not actually pain though. Doesn't affect my ability to wear walking shoes, though.
Oh, that BRAT diet is a common friend.
My mother had the same bone on the top of her feet and had it shaved down and had constant pain after that so I am trying to live with it. THE PATIENT seems like a million years ago now. Funny how these short series fade quickly. If you haven;t named Steve Carell I would have had no idea. I sort of like SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE but it needs more story.
Condolences, Tracy...most Specifically women's shoes seem to be torture devices, anyway. Hope your situations improve and you don't feel too deprived while wearing walking shoes and sandals...
And a rec for tonight: FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK, will be broadcast at 10p ET/PT by most of the dominant PBS stations in your area (and then later on some of the secondary stations, and probably will run on the World Channel network). What I've seen of this documentary about the late '60s and mostly early '70s all-women rock band is pretty damned good.
SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE is picking up a bit more narrative this season, I think. And I would suggest it has the least glamorized cast of any US series I can recall; a plus, I think.
Alice managed some vegetable sushi, as well (rice, albeit treated rice, with seaweed and sliced veg). Increments, increments. If she continues to feel afflicted, she's looking into venturing into oatmeal, too...brave old worlds!
Yikes, Patti. Sounds like the wiser choice.
Thanks for the sympathy, Todd. I will be happy if nothing gets worse with my feet, and I don't really mind sporty shoes exclusively.
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