SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE was a terrific movie-so true to the book, so well-acted however I found it very hard to follow the Irish dialogue. Should have waited for the closed captions on TV, I guess. Watching the new Ted Danson show, which does not have the heft of THE GOOD PLACE and the setting is pretty depressing but it is still well done. I wish I liked SILO more and I wish I had the focus for SAY NOTHING. So I have been watching a lot of documentaries on you tube and Kanopy.
Go Lions!
Just started the new Charles Baxter novel (BLOOD TEST) and am reading Stanley Tucci's WHAT I ATE FOR A YEAR.
Trying to shake the depression of the election. Just one decent appointment might help. One reason to think a democracy will survive. Can we throw it all away after three hundred years?
Hoping you have a good Thanksgiving. What's new? Love you all!
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Diane and I saw & JULIET at Shea's Performing Arts Center yesterday. Love that jukebox musical where Juliet lives and gets to sing Brittney Spears songs! Fun!
Diane is packing for our trip to New York City. Patrick and Katie will be hosting Thanksgiving for the third straight year.
This afternoon, we're going to see WICKED. No interest in GLADIATOR II.
Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone! Stay safe!
I hope you are feeling better. We don't have Apple+ or Disney + so don't watch those shows. We did watch JOY on Netflix last night. Very good. I don't remember that New Zealand actress Thomasin McKenzie in JOJO RABBIT or THE POWER OF THE DOG, both of which we saw, but she did a wonderful job here. Sadly, the real character died at 39.
Watching our usual mix of things on Acorn, Netflix, Britbox, MHz Choice, etc. Jackie watches darker shows in the afternoons - DEXTER for one, the Aussie Western TERRITORY, etc. I read.
We went to our favorite Italian restaurant for my birthday yesterday. Don't feel any older. We finally had a couple of inches of rain this week - not nearly enough to make up the deficit since September 1, but it was something - and could get more this week, unfortunately including during the Thanksgiving Parade on Thursday. Also Tuesday and Friday mornings, they say.
Reading some non fiction, including Marie Brenner's THE DESPERATE HOURS: ONE HOSPITAL'S FIGHT TO SAVE A CITY ON THE PANDEMIC'S FRONT LINES, about the New York-Presbyterian system. It's amazing how short - and defective - a memory so many people have about what a terrible job Trump did with this, as he and his awful minions plan to go after people like Dr. Fauci who were actually trying to make things better. With RFK Jr. at the helm, expect a return to measles and other epidemics.
What's the use? We're old, that's one thing. But surely these people in Congress have children and grandchildren they (supposedly) care about. Do they really thinking declaring "there's no such thing as climate change" will save them for what is coming?
Jesus wept.
An author I follow commented that "the next four years are not going to be that bad, people." I was not going to argue because it's his internet space and not the time or place for me to come off as a ranting and raving loom. But, I did respond that I hope he is correct. Recent Cabinet appointments make me pessimistic. Of course, doom, gloom, and disaster are very seductive. Maybe I am over worried.
Been watching EVIL on Netflix. Not sure how many seasons were produced. Enjoying the show. Has good special effects and some neat visual perspectives. Nice cast of characters. The four young actors playing the lead's young daughters are given a lot of scenes as well. They're not just background filler.
Listened to Don Winslow's CITY OF DREAMS that had a really skilled narrator. Winslow's storytelling keeps me interested but don't have much lasting impact.
Started another WALKING DEAD novel, THE FALL OF THE GOVERNOR, PART ONE. Entertaining popcorn with wicked villains.
Both children will be home for Thanksgiving. I have a turkey trop that morning where I will walk and Boy #1 will run. I always enjoy the all-you-can-drink coffee and muffins. But, last year they ran out of coffee and I was so, so, so disappointed.
Hope you are felling better, Patti.
Still escaping into books and TV as much as possible to cope with the daily horror of politics. Thrilled the Cowboys won.
Kevin's comment reminds me I am happy U of IL football had a last second win against Rutgers. They even moved up in the rankings from 25 to 22. A surprising move after almost losing to an unranked team team that was 6-4.
More and more I find reading difficult. My son complains about it too. I watched Season one of Evil. But where are the most recent seasons? I think there is at least a season 3. Hoping to see WICKED on Thanksgiving. I missed ANORA, it came and went too fast.
Patti, are you feeling better now? I am sorry you are having difficulty reading. I do read slower now but I am enjoying reading.
Jeff, dinner at an Italian restaurant for your birthday sounds nice. I don't feel any different but I don't like being over 75. I think I should be happy about that though.
Nothing exciting going on here, except we hope to get some rain today and tomorrow. I am looking forward to watching movies on Thursday and Friday.
Last night I stayed up late reading A DARKER DOMAIN by Val McDermid, the second book in the Inspector Karen Pirie series. It was an excellent book that grabbed me immediately. A woman reports that her father has been missing for over 20 years, from the time of the Miner’s Strike of 1984. This doesn't really fit into the Cold Case criteria for Karen's department, but she takes it on anyway. There is a second case, where new information shows up for a kidnapping that also took place in 1984. I liked that the story went back and forth between 1984 and 2007.
Before that I read the Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion, about a socially challenged genetics professor, Don Tillotson. He lives an orderly life, planned to the last detail, but he has few friends. He decides he would like to find a wife, so he comes up with a questionnaire to eliminate women with habits or interests he could not tolerate. Probably an unrealistic story but lots of fun. I don't usually read romantic comedies, and I didn't really realize that this was one when I started it, but I liked it anyway.
Glen is reading two books now:
KIND, BUT KIND OF WEIRD: SHORT STORIES ON LIFE'S RELATIONSHIPS by Joey Held. The stories seem like they are taken from a longer story. They have a lot of description and detail but end abruptly. The stories are pretty short and he only has a few left. I will definitely give that book a try.
The nonfiction book he is reading is NATURE'S MUTINY by Philipp Blom. The subtitle describes it well: "How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present." He has read about half of that one, and he says that it does discuss the Little Ice Age and its effects on European life at that time, but also has a lots of digressions from that topic.
Those who cower before Drumpf don't love them enough. Those who agree with Drumpf don't love anything more than their hatred.
I expect it will be bad, Gerard, but the Drumpf level of incompetence will continue.
Paramount +, if I'm not mistaken, as it was broadcast on CBS for its first season, which I enjoyed.
Further hopes for a full recovery soon, Patti. Meanwhile, our fun is the steam heat system failing on us on Friday, and the attempt on Saturday to fix it by our local technicians sort of quarter-fixed it. Space heaters are doing their part now, but it's a patchwork solution, and we're uncertain as to when it will get fully fixed. Meanwhile, there's some imbecile shouting unintelligibly out on the street...as we live across from an elementary school, just about to let out, this can't be fun for the kids and staff, either.
And a post-natal Happy Natal as well, Jeff.
I enjoyed DARKER DOMAIN. I recall it having a rather dark ending as well.
Hope it's not too cold there yet, Todd.
Val McDermid is one of the best. And I like that character especially.
I feel better but still tired. I remember it dragging on for both you and George. I will check out Paramount for Evil.
DARKER DOMAIN did have a dark ending, but it wasn't depressing, so that was good. I am eager to read the next one in the series.
I was watching EVIL on Netflix. I just online and four season are listed on Paramount Plus. I see Netflix only has the first two seasons. Nuts, I'll have to stop after season two.
In the 40s, so we're dealing with T-week space-heaters. Incentive to wash/dry clothes, and bake and use the water distiller. Glad you're feeling somewhat better...relax as much as possible.
Did not know DARKER DOMAIN has a sequel. I just checked online and see there several in the series. I wonder how many of those I might have read and forgotten about.
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