Monday, March 03, 2025

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Anonymous said...

Lovely weather, many great meals, great visit with my brother but someone out there could ruin any vacation, any country, any world. Not mentioning any names.My roommates are binging Only Murderers in the Building so I havent seen any TV but did catch The Last Breath and went to the SWFl Reading Festival and saw Alison Gaylin and Reed Farel Coleman. Oh and115 Years of Broadway Music.
How about you?

8:52 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

I hope you're enjoying Florida, Patti. Good to get out of the cold, anyway.

Another quiet week here. It was partly sunny in the 70s mostly. The weather has been very much to our liking since we've been here, though those who like it warm enough to swim might disagree. We didn't see any of the movies this year and had no interest in the Academy Awards, though my sister and brother were texting their critiques of the way people were dressed.

I did finish four books this week, so that was good. We watched BEST INTERESTS ( Acorn, I think), a well acted if depressing 4-part miniseries starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen as parents of a 13 year old girl dying of a degenerative neuromuscular disease. Horgan wants to keep her alive at all costs.

When watching THE AGENCY, Jackie discovered that Richard Gere had done a (eight part) British series called MotherFatherSon (written like that) in 2019. He plays an awful Murdoch-like media mogul (he's American, in England) whose word can make the difference between the current Prime Minister and the sort of slick but slimy opposition candidate (played by the ubiquitous Sarah Lancashire). Meanwhile, his 30 year old son, who he has put in charge of one of the newspapers, is way over his head, and has a stroke while drinking and using drugs. His ex-wife is Helen McCrory, who in real life was married to Damien Lewis, and who died a year after the series came out, of breast cancer. I think this might be Acorn too.

I am not very impressed with Robert DeNiro's ZERO DAY on Netflix, a timely but not believable series about a cyber attack that causes many deaths. The President, weak and running for re-election (Angela Bassett), appoints 80 year old former President Bill Clinton, I mean George Mullen, to head the commission investigating, though everyone "knows" Russia is behind it (but they're not). One of the worst things is Lizzy Caplan as Mullen's estranged AOC-like Congresswoman daughter, fingernails on the blackboard every time she appears. She is clearly a useful idiot for the real culprits. Plus, Mullen seems to have some kind of dementia, which nobody notices.

We're enjoying the latest REACHER, spacing them out every four days to keep up and always have one available. We're enjoying the French CASSANDRE (MHz Choice), set in Annecy, the usual cop out of water plot (the second in command's mother always refers to her as "the Parisian").

We watched the first episode(s) of series 12 of SILENT WITNESS, which featured an 18 year old Daniel Kaluuya as a gang member trying to keep his younger brother safe, but coming to a bad end (as does the brother - it was a real downer episode).

SPOOKS (MI-5) continues to be eerily prescient as each episode - series 8 was filmed in 2009 - has at least some elements that could be, as they say, "ripped from today's headlines." And the US (and the CIA in particular) is often the bad guy.

We watched the four episodes of the original 2000 series of REBUS (Britbox), with John Hannah as the Edinburgh cop. He might have been a little too young then - mid-30s - but the 90 to 120 minute running times covered the books fairly well. It wasn't resumed until 2006, with a wholly new cast led by 52 year old Ken Stott as Rebus. These are only about an hour, and the first one (at least) makes a hash out of the book it was adapted from, taking only some bare bones and making up the rest. Frankly, I prefer Hannah in general, and I really didn't like what they did with it, but we won't give up yet. I think Stott did three series before it was canceled. No word on if and when we'll be getting the new 2024 REBUS.

9:18 AM
Jerry House said...

It's been your basic do nothing week here. The weather has been skipping around from warm to cool to cold to rainy to sun shine like a drunk uncle trying to decide on what to order at a restaurant. It was too cool for the beach this weekend, so I took a nap. Christina and Jack went to the zoo where Christina tried to get a selfie with a highland cow. unfortunately, highland cows have very big heads and it was impossible to get a picture of the cow's head and Christina in the frame; she got several great pictures of the cows nostrils next to her, however.

Speaking of zoos, in another one far, far away, Mark had his interview with the Reptile Department. She's been assigned to Birds since she began six months ago and, while she loves Birds, her dream job is working with Reptiles. Now that his probationary six-month period is up, he hopes to get a transfer. For the past few months, he has been working with Reptiles on a volunteer basis one day a week, and they know him and like his work. Mark is a great and dedicated worker by he is very shy and an introvert and does not do well in interviews, so he is more than a bit nervous, especially when he was told that his volunteer work would not be considered in the interview. Nonetheless he thinks he did well. the Reptile people would be fools if they did not hire someone as awesome as Mark.

In the meantime, we got some photos Mark took of his friends the venomous snakes. Too each their own, I say. In the meantime Mark put on his bird manicurist's hat and sent some photos of Orion, the Great Horned Owl, whose talons he had to clip during nail day, and of Lincoln, the Gentoo Penguin, during nail and beak trim day. No matter what animal he works with, Mark has a fantastic job and I'm jealous.

Thing are very here on the animal front. Wonky Cat, Amy's neurologically damaged kitten is doing worse. She's now blind and her hypoplasia is getting worse, she's not eating , and is in pain. She will probably have to be out down this week.. Amy is devastated; she loves that cat, but when you have an animal and love that animal, there eventually comes a time when you have to be the grown-up and make the hard decisions. We've all been there and my heart goes out to Amy and to Wonky Cat (whose real name is Creme Brulee).

This week Erin and Trey began house hunting in earnest. He graduated last month with an engineering degree and it's time for them to move on with their lives together. I'm happy for them but I will miss Erin being around the house giving Jack dagger-eyes for his antics. And I will miss Duncan, Newcat, and the hedgehogs. They will be staying in the Gulf Breeze-Pensacola region, so we'll get to see a lot of them.

I've been trying for two weeks to get an appointment with my podiatrist to no avail. Either he's been blown away in the recent tornado that hit his street or he's in jail or dead. So I've booked an appointment with a new podiatrist for later this month. Fingers crossed I like him, something that's always a concern with a new doctor.

Despite the best of intentions, I still have not done my taxes.

To be continued.

9:19 AM

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