Saw MOTHERING SUNDAY, a film based on the novel by Graham Swift. It has the longest nude scene I have ever seen and I wonder how anyone in life or film can walk around naked and seem completely at ease for so long. After a while, nudity loses its eroticism or sexuality. I wonder if this was the intention.
Watching SLOW HORSES, THE GREAT POTTERY THROWDOWN, SHETLAND, SEASON 6 and WHY DON"T THEY ASK EVANS.
Reading stories by Lily King, and the non-fiction, SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY.
What about you?
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I hope the nude scene wasn't Glenda Jackson. The trailer for that film didn't look very interesting to me. Going today to see Everything Everywhere All at Once. Planning on seeing Northman next weekend. And the Nicolas Cage movie where he plays himself if it opens around here. Watched first episode of Outer Range on Amazon. Jury is out until I see more episodes. Enjoying Tokyo Vice. Better Call Saul starts tonight. Coming up soon Barry, Ozark and Bosch. Plus, a new HBO show from David Simon and George Pelicanos.
Reading The Missing Piece by John Lescroart and some short fiction by Matthew Hughes. Just finished The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi. Fun but light weight SF novel.
Taken up bowling and doing a Friday afternoon league for something to do. After 3 weeks carrying a 180 average. Not bad considering I haven't bowled for 40 years.
Forgot to put in my name.
I hope you're enjoying Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Patti. I've not had the chance to watch it yet, but I keep hearing it's very good.
It was well done, Margot but it felt stretched. The Suchet show used to do these in less than 90 minutes so 3 hours seems excessive. Too many scenes admiring the beauty of its stars for my taste.
MS considers the events that make a writer start writing and I found that aspect very interesting. Also the effect the vast deaths of WW 1 had on the English people.
I don't have AMC so I guess I will have to wait until it turns up on Netflix--if I still care a year from now.
We're dealing with snow in Ohio. Carol's son's family showed up for Easter dinner and fun was had by all.
Diane and Carol plan to go shopping today, but the snow might delay that. I'm trying to finish another Library book so I can get caught up. Some of the Library books have Holds on them which means they can't be renewed. I also have a stack of REVIEW books waiting for me.
We're behind on SLOW HORSES, TOKYO VICE, and PICARD. We'll get caught up when we return to North Tonawanda.
Patrick is in Vegas with friends. He's on vacation. My sister just returned from a Viking cruise up the California coast (she's been on over 100 cruises!). I'll be happy to return home. No one in Ohio wears a masks...except for Diane and me! Stay safe!
No one wears than here either, George. We are also expecting some snow.
We still wear masks in the supermarket but not in restaurants, but we don't go to crowded places where the tables are too close together. Nevertheless, I got a cold over the weekend for the first time since before Covid, but it was just a head cold.
Catching up on MY BRILLIANT FRIEND and other stuff we missed while away (that we couldn't get as we didn't have HBO or Showtime there). Haven't watched the Christie yet, but we're watching the Suchet POIROTs and the Joan Hickson MARPLEs on Saturday nights (Brit Night here). It's always fun to recognize guest stars we've seen on so many other British shows Watched the first THE FIRST LADY last night, which Jackie liked way more than I did. Odd choices, if you ask me. Some (like Obama) got the voice down right but looked nothing like the person. In some cases, it was the other way round. If it wasn't for her, I'd never watch this. Also started the second series of the Val McDermid series set in Dundee, TRACES. We added several shows on Hulu to our list but haven't started them yet.
Reading 5 books currently - three collections of short stories, Stephen King's overlong BILLY SUMMERS (or is that redundant) and a new mystery set in the 1940s New York that is pretty good so far.
Nudity doesn't really bother me. I don't mind seeing naked people but I must admit there are some I'd rather not, especially if they are being spanked with a magazine that features them on the cover.
Kitty's woes continue. The first thing the at-home health care physical therapist did was screw up her good artificial knee. She's been in pain and unable to support herself on that leg for almost a week now. The therapist had been clued in on her major problems but not her knee and leg problems. **sigh** She had her CAT scan of her chest, abdomen, and pelvis in preparation for her upcoming valve replacement -- a thirteen-minute procedure that took over eight hours of hospital time. Go figure. Wednesday she has to have a heart catheterization to see if there are any blockages in her arteries. The following Tuesday, the cardiac team will review her case and (cross fingers) give the okay for the valve transplant, which will be done on May 3rd at the earliest. She's seeing her hematologist on Friday to come up with a new plan for her hemolytic anemia since her latest medicine for that seems to have acerbated her breathing problems. Again, all of this is serious but, with time, should be fixable.
My latest biopsy for prostate cancer was positive, meaning that future treatment may involve removal of the prostate, radiation therapy, or just waiting. Before a final decision is made, they are going to do some genetic testing on the cancer cells to determine how aggressive it is. It's not a life threatening situation right now, but it may be life altering. May we live in interesting times.
All of this means we may have to give up our apartment and move in with Christina and her family so that someone else will be on hand in case of any emergency. Jessamyn has also offered but her home has just too many stairs. It's a bitch getting old but, again, we should be coming out of these health issues fairly well.
We had a quiet Easter. We had planned on out annual outing to Blackwater State Park where we rent a pavilion but...well, life. The girls and their brood were able to make it, though, and had a great time even though it rained like stink. Amy took the opportunity to teach everyone how to draw bunnies and there was much laughter, good times, and good food.
Kitty and I plan to be there next year.
Watching OPEN RANGE, MOONKNIGHT, John Oliver, BOARDING SCHOOL, and a whole bunch of bad Bela Lugosi flicks. To this Kitty has added a bunch of home reno shows and snarky YouTube postings on the royal family.
Books read recently include RAZORBLADE TEARS by S. A. Cosby, GWEWDY'S FINAL TASK by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, and UNEXPECTED NIGHT by Elizabeth Daly. I'm still catching up on short stories from THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION from the mid-50s. Currently reading THE KAIJU PRSERVATION SOCIETY a fun read from John Scalzi. Next up, another collection of Joe R. Lansdale's novellas.
Have a great week, Patti. Stay safe.
Patti, it is raining in eastern Ohio right now. The current temp is 36 degrees and sleet is in the forecast for this afternoon. Conditions will be similar tomorrow when we drive back to North Tonawanda.
Phil had the prostate surgery rather than the radiation and had a speedy recovery. It was the colon cancer that got him.
So happy you take such joy in your family and that they are nearby. A real blessing.I had the genetic testing with my breast cancer and it came in with a low chance of traveling. Pray God they are right.
Stay an extra day, George. Not worth traveling in it.
Jeff-had no idea TRACES was based on Val McDermid. I will give it a try. I wonder what the best impersonation of a first lady was. I am not sure why they needed to do three of them.
I hate that the Monday comments have turned into a series of crappy medical reports! So I’ll say “we’re fine” and stop. Don’t have any fancy channels so watched nothing, though I paid the $300 cable bill. Read a couple of short stories. Rainy here.
Val McDermid came up with the idea. Amelia Bullmore, an actress who was the boss in SCOTT & BAILEY but who has also written plays, is doing it with her. Very Scottish, which is never a bad thing. Most recognizable character is the guy who plays Steve in LINE OF DUTY. And Vincent Regan.
Jerry, good luck with all the medical woes. Don't know if it's an option for you, but I had GreenLight Laser surgery on the prostate. You can get the details on Wikipedia. Very simple and quick and painless. And all best wishes to Kitty.
An update on the Easter outing at Blackwater State Park: Mark saw two snakes that he HAD to catch. The first meant that he had to walk across a cold river (with Jack trailing behind him), the second had mark traversing marsh land. (Mark is the one who is training to handle venomous reptiles.) Yuk!
Most of my health / medical news is fairly good (and is about Glen). The retina specialist says all is fine with his eye, and he will see him again in 6 months. He does have blood pressure problems and will see his doctor later this week, but that will probably be taken care of easily. He gets too upset about things.
Jerry, I hope things go better for both you and Kitty. I admire your optimistic outlook, and I am sure that helps. And it is wonderful that you have good family support.
I finished THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig last week. I did not like it quite as much as I expected, but that is my fault for having expectations. I still enjoyed it a lot. Maybe a bit on the light side, but it gave me food for thought, and I like that. Something I read said it was fantasy mixed with magical realism but I don't really understand the meaning of magical realism.
I am currently reading Rebecca by du Maurier and am very close to finishing it. I don't know if I had read it before but I certainly feel that way as I read it. We are going to watch the Hitchcock film (again) soon.
I love Rebecca, book and movie, but not everyone in my book group did. They tend to like books with
social issues. This did for me ( class ) but they saw it as a romance. Glad to hear there is a good resolution for Glen!
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