No Internet until yesterday, so I am a day late. I am almost entirely settled in. My bed is together, my tv working, my computer on but I have had no chance to walk around and it looks like we have a lot of rain coming our way.
Saw the doc shorts at the Detroit Art Institute and was not impressed. Maybe we see too many good docs on TV now. Or maybe forty minutes is an awkward length. The best one was about this sensational female basketball player from Delta State in the seventies. She was the only woman or first woman drafted by the NBA but declined. And instead raised a family.
I am hoping to go to the library tomorrow and get a card so I can start reading again. I did get my books unpacked today. Despite giving away many, I still have too much for the three bookcases I brought.
Anyway, what is up with you?
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Glad to see you have gotten settled in. I detest moving which is why I stayed 30 years in my previous apartment.
Been watching the Andy Warhol documentary on Netflix and Pieces of Her which is a bit of a potboiler. Went to see The Outfit with Mark Rylance which is very good.
Reading Nine Lives by Peter Swanson and Shamus Dust by Janet Roger.
Baseball is here. At least some spring training games. The only sport I watch a lot of. trying not to watch too much news. Way to depressing.
I enjoyed the Warhol doc. Too bad a man of such talent would have traded it all to be handsome. Hoping to see The Outfit this week. Love Mark Rylance. My husband loved baseball but no other sport too. Hoping the sense of fear at what I just did leaves soon. Mostly the quickness of it all was jarring.
Glad you're settling in. I hate moving too. Even going to and from Florida for three months (as we are now up to) is a major hassle, but at least it is a short term one.
What are we doing? Same old, same old mostly, though we did have dinner with my cousins on Sunday night at the far south (Boca Raton) of Palm Beach County.
Mostly watching streaming series, plus a few on networks and PBS. Finished the final season of the British/French THE TUNNEL, which was less interesting than series two and a major downer at the end. Watched COBRA (series two), which almost hit a little too close to the current world situation. Finished series 6 of the Swedish SANDHAMN MURDERS (of 7, so far) and series 3 of the French SPIRAL. We watched the first 90 minute CHELSEA DETECTIVE, starring Adrian Scarborough, and enjoyed it. Lovely London settings. Watching POIROT ("The Third Floor Flat") and MISS MARPLE (A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED) on Saturdays, along with ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE. Val McDermid & Amelia Bullmore's TRACES is worth a try. Series 3 of THE BAY (Morecombe) is now available, with a new Sergeant (played by Marsha Thomason, who was also in COBRA). I like RESERVATION DOGS on Hulu.
PIECES OF HER we found unwatchably bad.
Our other current obsession is the word games - Wordle, then Quordle, and even Octordle. I know my mother would have loved these.
Agree on Mark Rylance. We've seen him on Broadway in his Tony-winning performances in BOEING BOEING and JERUSALEM, as well as LA BETE. He was great in all of them.
Glad your move to the apartment went well! In the Old Days I would have said, "There is no such thing as Too Many Books!" But now, I'm slowly donating books to the Library Book Sale or thrift stores each week.
Another rainy week with some snow forecast for this weekend. Diane is focused on Spring Cleaning. I'm focused on hiding.
Diane and I watched THE ADAM PROJECT on Netflix. It's a Time Travel story that should have been a lot better given a good cast.
I've made a big push to read the stack of Library books this week.
Hope you got my forwarded email from BOUCHERCON about Megan hosting NOIR AT THE BAR. We're going! Stay safe!
No, I did not see it. I think I lost some emails and text messages over the last week. Well, maybe I will reconsider going then.
The only thing I have watched is THE DROPOUT. And reruns of The Larry Sanders Show. My new tv is very bright. My eyes aren't used to it.
Right now I am changing my address on about a million different things.
Hit the vwrong key and ended up as Lastyear instead of my name.
Glad things are (mostly) settling in!
The world is reflecting my gloom suitably, though it is good to see all but Cawthorn and Carlson backing off Putin worship. Trump, I'm sure, still doesn't know whether Putin is 85% as good as he himself is, or maybe only 60%. And these are our senators on the Judiciary Committee. Yes they are.
Using the higher-powered Dell, which for no obvious reason doesn't work as well with videophoning as the clunky Acer, but it's a bit of an adjustment, as I had to decouple it from the gaming suite Alice has installed in the living room, while Alice sees patients remotely from the attic bedroom. (Fell down the lower set of attic stairs this past Wed., three bounce fall, in too-insouciantly coming back down after carrying something heavy up there...hadn't pulled up slightly loose pants again sufficiently, just enough cuff on the carpeted, handrailless stairs for my heel to lose traction and suddenly my train of thought was rudely refocused. Nothing Too badly damaged, though certainly banged and scraped enough. No damned fun.
Recent recommended views: Neil Gaiman adaptation HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES, first review in decades of THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (such a matter-of-fact film), finally got around to the good, most-recent season of THE GOOD FIGHT (oddly, the grind? of the weekly network series on THE GOOD WIFE made for a better series, Edward Burns's umpteenth mining of his adolescence SUMMER DAYS,SUMMER NIGHTS was amiable. SHINING VALE on Starz is a good horror comedy, about Courtney Cox's recovering-burnout writer haunted, with her family to a lesser extent, by Mira Sorvino's ghost in their new rural house. Soupcon of THE SHINING mixed with GHOSTS in some ways, and in quality somewhere between GHOSTS US and the apparently much better, less sitcommy and more improvisational GHOSTS UK mothership. Gave the Showtime Uber dramatization a shot ahead of the HBO LA Lakers series, but along with BILLIONS, I don't think I need too many more glossy series about childish billionaires having tantrums.
PBS is a network, Jeff. Just not as much In Pattern as the other big broadcast nets (if more so than MyNetworkTV these years...the local affiliate runs their primetime block in Very Late Night/Early Morning). Hell, World Channel and PBS Kids and Create are networks, too, in our multiplex broadcast network reality nowadays.
Just got the first season of THE GOOD FIGHT at my new library. I know I have seen the first two seasons but I may as well repeat.
I figured it was you, Steve. I think you have used that once or twice.
Glad you’re getting settled in! I envy your rain, storms here have been going south of us, and we need rain. I read THE SILENCED WOMEN by Frederick Weisel, which I enjoyed for its strong character building and a pretty good serial killer plot. I wish our PBS channel had those Christie shows Jeff is getting, we’d watch them. For the first time in over 30 years, I didn’t watch any of the NCAA basketball tournament.
In the garden, the Crocuses are finished but the Daffodils and Narcissus are in full bright yellow bloom and the Camillias are starting to bloom. Also, the stone fruit trees all over town are blooming, and are beautiful.
Nothing blooming here yet, Rick. It is 45, windy and cold.
I don't get them on my PBS either but I can watch them on Britbox.
Rick, we're watching the Christies on Acorn or Britbox (or both). I know you didn't like A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED (the book) much, but the television adaptation was very well done. The Poirots seem to be set in the late 1930s while the Marples are definitely post-WWII.
Glad to hear that the move has gone relatively well. You seem very calm to me after all the changes and work related to the moving.
Nothing much going on here. We still don't get out much. I have tons of things to do around the house, things that have piled up and been ignored for a while. And lots of cleanup in the yard. The front part has to be neat, etc. as part of the condo association rules. That part is good exercise for me, though.
I just finished reading the third book in the Cadfael series (MONK'S HOOD). I liked it even better than the second one and I did not think that was possible. Rick recently sent me THE CADFAEL COMPANION, a reference book about the series, especially locations and historical background. It is very cool, tons of information, and I am learning a lot.
Before that I read DEATH LIKES IT HOT by Gore Vidal (as Edgar Box). Published in 1954. It is #3 of a series about Peter Sargeant, a publicist who is an amateur sleuth. This one is set in the Hamptons. Fun to read.
We watched the new James Bond movie (NO TIME TO DIE) on BluRay disc a few nights ago. I liked it fine. Too long though. We are almost done with all the David Tennant Doctor Who episodes and will be moving on to the Matt Smith episodes. We also plan to watch DEADWATER FELL, and after that AROUND THE WORK IN 80 DAYS.
I had forgotten all about Edgar Box. Not sure I ever read one either.
No gardening for me. I will miss the exercise.
Glad the move went okay. Moving is evil. We need to join the Federation of Planets so that we have transporter technology.
Thankfully, we missed the 11 tornadoes that descended on North Texas Monday afternoon and evening. A lightning strike took out our power from just before 2 to just after 9:30 Monday night so we lost about half of the fridge contents. We were able to dash out between storms and get some ice around 4 and save some stuff, but some had to go.
When the power came back on, there was a loud and very strange noise nearby. Soon, we had a fire engine parked out on the street in front of us and firefighters were walking around the house across the street to the ally where two transformers had exploded and burned. A short while later they left. They were soon back twice more as another transformer exploded and burned and then again right before midnight as yet another one blew up and caught fire.
So, no fun, but seeing the massive amount of twister destruction is a reminder that things could have been way worse.
I have also seen the first episode of THE CHELSEA DETECTIVE and enjoyed it a lot.
KRT
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