Although I am still watching SUCCESSION, BARRY and a few regular shows, I have drifted into watching THE DOG HOUSE, a real tear- jerker about dogs and the people they rescue, JEWISH MATCHMAKER, and PORTRAIT ARTIST OF THE YEAR. Oh, and COUPLES THERAPY. Am I losing the ability to follow a narrative?
I finished HELLO, BEAUTIFUL. And my dilemma on what to read next was solved when Megan's new book arrived.
No movies, but I did go to see ALADDIN at the Fisher Theater in Detroit. Although the music was all new to me, I enjoyed it and most of all enjoyed the staging. Funny to see a musical where only one woman had a speaking part. When did staging become such an important aspect of these musicals. I also saw COSI FAN TUTTE, a student production, but very competent. It was in a brand new auditorium at Oakland University in Rochester where there were NO HAND RAILS. Are they kidding? Do they know the age group that comes to these things?
How about you guys?
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I'm glad you've been able to get out for a few shows, Patti, but I agree with you about the handrails! And I'm looking forward to reading Megan's newest, too!
Thanks, Margot. Hopefully they will install them soon.
Diane and her sister Carol spent Mother's Day weekend in New York City enjoying Broadway shows and great restaurants with Patrick, Kati, and Carol's granddaughter (who now lives in Brooklyn), Annie. I stayed home and caught up on my reading (and pizza!).
Last week was warm and rainy. This week promises to be cooler and dryer.
I finished the second season of PERRY MASON. I enjoyed it and hope it gets renewed for a Third Season. But I'm pissed that Perry didn't apologize to Ginny for his oafish behavior!
A friend of mine who lives in Midland, Michigan suffered major water damage as heavy rains caused his basement to flood. Stay dry!
We don't watch any "reality"-type shows. It's fiction or nothing. We watched the second in the second series of DALGLEISH (A Certain Justice, one of the later books in the series, one I didn't read). SPOILER ALERT: The second I saw the guest cast I picked out the murderer, as I've seen him in recent years as the killer in several other shows - most recently MAGPIE MURDERS. (END SPOILER) Interestingly, Sara Stewart, who plays the awful murder victim (this horrible barrister) in the Dalgleish, turned up last night as an American Mafia princess in GRACE("Dead Man's Grip") on Britbox or Acorn. Still watching the other series, including STAR TREK: DISCOVERY series 4. Finally finished the second series (only two are available) of the New Zealand ONE LANE BRIDGE, but you need to like the "woo woo" factor to really like this, and I found it more annoying than good. Finished the second series of ASTRID; the third is not available here yet. Still watching LUCKY HANK and FROM.
Singer Steve Earle has a severely autistic son who goes to a special school in New York where the ratio of staff to students is one to one. Earle does a fundraising concert for the school every year in December at The Town Hall. Besides his own group, he always gets special guest starts. In 2016 it was Graham Nash and Shawn Colvin. In 2018 it was Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi. In 2019 it was Josh Ritter, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires. Last December, the first since the pandemic, was supposed to be Bruce Springsteen. The prices were outrageous and it sold out immediately, but the concert had to be postponed for some reason and the rescheduled date is tonight, with David Byrne as the main guest. We have tickets. We've also seen Earle once with Lucinda Williams and another time with Lucinda and Emmylou Harris.
I'm reading EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONE. Great premise but I'm still not sure about it. Also reading ONCE UPON A TOME: THE MISADVENTURES OF A RARE BOOKSELLER.
My comment vanished into the ether. It was probably boring anyway.
Jerry, that has happened to me so many times that I always send myself an email copy in case I have to post it again.
Is it just on my blog?
Yeah, I don't know why I am watching these series. They are not competitions except for the portrait painters. I am about to try Jury Duty on Freevee, which everyone is raving about.
Nice Mother's Day! Wish Megan could be here but she is marching 20, 000 steps a day for the WGA.
Well, if you haven't been keeping with it, SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE is perking along rather well in the new season. I might look at JURY DUTY as well, though it does seem like more a question of how much the "mark" actually didn't know the series was a put-on. The reviews seem more mixed than raves, that I've stumbled across.
And the fifth episode of HARRY WILD (Jane Seymour's series with her as a retired English professor and troublemaking mother of an Irish police detective) was a solid one, as well, with the sixth back down to pleasant enough.
I'd been missing the FX series THE PATIENT on cable, and since it's Mostly for Hulu, they haven't allowed catching up on demand, but did catch the last episode cablecast and will check it out going forward, at least for a bit. Will also give Sarah Goldberg's new series on IFC, SISTERS, a look, at least, as BARRY winds down. LUCKY HANK seems wrapped for season one with 8 episodes, and those might be it (AMC hasn't announced a second season as yet); Odenkirk is being heavily promoted as a reason to watch the second season of IFC's THE BEAR.
WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS continues.
Enough tube notes! You can't be more dull than this, Jerry. Preservation a la Jeff's precautions for some reason seem useful on Patti's blog.
I found the first episode of WHITE HOUSE PLUMBERS amusing in several places. Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux as Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy are an unlikely comic pair, but they made me laugh.
Well, the fired CIA cowboy and the all-but-fired FBI Nazi were inherently comic...when not getting ready to murder someone. Starz has taken the opportunity to put up repeats of the even better Watergate series GASLIT, as well...and the writers' strike has had me appreciating the opportunities to catch archived episodes of those other espionage comedies, ARCHER and THE VENTURE BROS.
No Starz, no AMC plus, no IFC, no MHZ, and Xfinity raised my bill by $30 a month--for nothing it seems.
Watching From, Barry and A Spy Among Friends. No movies this week.
Finished Blind Spot by Thomas Mullen. Now reading Ozark Dogs by Eli Crandor.
Had some nice days so I have been siting outside and reading. And working on my tan.
My own comment just disappeared. Yikes. Some nice weather, Steve. Wish I had a spot to sit outside.
Buggy Blogspot. No real courtyard there, Patti?
Late again because we walked at the Alice Keck Memorial Gardens this morning, near downtown Santa Barbara. Then went to a lovely cafe for breakfast which has fantastic muffins (and desserts but I don't indulge in those). The muffins are bad enough.
I agree on the handrails. Stairs have always been a problem for me, due to vertigo, but now it is worse. I would not even attempt to go up or down stairs in that situation.
We have been watching: SLOW HORSES (and enjoying it a lot), DEATH IN PARADISE (same), WILL TRENT, and rewatching some other shows.
This week I read THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty. I liked it but not as much as I would expect since it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Maybe it will appeal to me more on a second read; maybe I just have a bias against novels set in the South.
I am currently reading the latest book in the Slough House series, BAD ACTORS.
Some comments disappear from my blog, too, but usually they end up in the Comments folder under Spam, and I can restore them to the correct post. At least the ones I know about.
I have always thought Welty's short stories are better than her novels.
Yes, I have some vertigo too but also a bad knee.
Morning walks are the best kind.
All the disappearing comments give me a ready-made excuse for my usually late replies.
I had been watching WALKING DEAD and began the super-evil Negan season. At this point the show seems to be trying to humanize him a little. I'm annoyed by that, I hate the despicable character, and have not gotten back to it.
I'm struggling to finish listening to IVANHOE. The story very wordy and talky; that makes since considering the time it was written.
Wife, Boy #2, and I attended the Madison Chamber Orchestra on Friday and I enjoyed it quite a bit. The show began with a brief section of the opera being written by the composer in residence. The rest of the show was Beethoven with a pianist.
I started reading the eBook of ENGLISH PASSENGERS. Enjoyable so far as some English travel to Tasmania in the 1850s to look for the Garden of Eden. At this point they are looking to hire the few surviving Tasmanian native population - the rest were killed by the English - to guide the group upriver.
My son and grandson are watching the Walking Dead. I gave up after a few seasons. I always enjoy classical music.
Watched the three-episode series 3 of Grace and now watching The Bay. Just finished Samantha Jayne Allen's second novel set in rural Texas titled Hard Rain. Now reading Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane. Reminded me that I first learned about him at Bouchercon in St. Paul in the 1990s and found a first edition of his first book in Fargo ND on my way home to Winnipeg. Only Bouchercon I ever attended.
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