I was lucky enough to see MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG on Broadway in June of 24 so I was eager to see the filmed version. Seeing everything in closeup rather than as you see an a stage sort of threw me off. Still it was worth seeing if you like Sondheim, which I do.
The weather here is awful. So cold that everything is icy and a fear of falling makes me walk even less assuredly.
Saw two concerts one with the DSO with a terrific violinist and the other was Detroit Chamber Orchestra.
Watching the Beatles Anthology on HBO. So much footage I don't remember seeing before.
My street in Philly in the fifties.
What about you?
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Western NY is a cold, snowy place right now. Diane returns from her Caribbean cruise tonight--no more 80 degree temps! Single digit temps are in the forecast!
The TV networks love snow games and the Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills played one yesterday at Highmark Stadium. I'm sure there was lots of booze in the stands to "keep away the cold."
While Diane was vacationing with Patrick, Katie, my sister Karen, and her daughter Tara, I focused on completing a lot of time-consuming projects. With the Holidays approaching and Diane hosting the Christmas Day meal, I tried to work ahead on blog posts knowing time will be short when the kids are home and guests arrive.
A couple of our friends have fallen on ice and suffered dramatic injuries: concussions and paralysis. Stay safe!
I am terrified of falling and very bad at walking on ice. Tempting to go to an independent living facility next year so I don' have to negotiate these sidewalks. Glad your family got away from it. And it's only December!
The last four or five days have been cold, gray, and drizzly, as if the weather decided to reflect Florida's politics. Bah!
t even the weather cannot tarnish our good mood, because Erin is engaged to be married! She and Trey have been together for seven years, dating since Erin was in high school; the two have always been the perfect couple. Several months ago, Trey (ever the gentleman) asked Walt and Christina for Erin's hand, saying that he did not want to rush things but would wait until the time was right. They went off for a romantic weekend together, and on Saturday Erin posted a picture of her hand with the an engagement ring on it. About damn time. I thought. No date has been set yet.
While Erin and Trey were off gallivantin' and courtin' and sparkin', we had Duncan for the weekend. For reasons I cannot understand, that phlegm-inducing allergen likes me and insists on spending all his time with me, including sleeping on my pillow. Oh well. Now at least I can complain about this one thing I did to help Erin and Trey along their path of true love.
Speaking of animals, Happy the Beagle mix turned nine this past week. (Duncan turned eleven two weeks ago and is now a literal graybeard.)
Jack was over the roof this week because his picture appeared in the local weekly. His eighth-grade English class had a lesson on newspapers and Jack was photographed actually reading an actual newspaper. Many years from now, he can pull out that picture to show his grandchildren that there once were actually things known as newspapers.
Amy, Erin, and Christina are the master crocheters in the family. and Amy was clearing out some of her excess yarn -- an amount equal to several truckloads, I believe. Prior to offering the yarn free on Facebook Marketplace, Amy let Christina take whatever she wanted, so yesterday Christina went over and scored so-o-o-o much yarn (Erin was still away being all romantic and stuff). We can look forward to crocheted everything over the next few months.
Started streaming BLUE LIGHTS on Britbox -- an easy show to get hooked on.
Read two novels this week A DEADLY AFFAIR AT BOBTAIL RIDGE was the fourth in Terry Shames' Samuel Craddock mysteries; she just published book #12 so I have a bit to go. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY was the only Michael Crichton book I had not previously read. A thoroughly enjoyable caper novel with an interesting protagonist, and chockful of interesting facts about Lopndon -- the highs and lows -- during the 1850s. I also read two hefty anthologies: Charles Ardai's GREAT TALES OF CRIME AND DETECTION collected 34 stories from the pages of EQMM and AHMM, and Stefan Dziemianowicz;s GREAT HORROR STORIES was an instant remainder with 101 stories with little-known tales mixed in the better-known. Bill Pronzini's TALES OF THE IMPOSSIBLE collected 19 stories of "impossible" crimes. Great stuff. And Gary Lovisi's A MYSTERY, CRIME AND NOIR NOTEBOOK brought together a number of articles and essays about great collectable paperbacks. Lovisi's fanboy enthusiasm made up for some poor proofreading and copy editing -- all in all, an entertaining look at some lesser-known paperbacks of the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
Keep smiling, avoid the ice, and have a great week, P{atti!
I really should have watched BLUE LIGHTS before dumping BRIT BOX.
Yes, the weather has sucked here too since the start of November. We haven't had (so far) any major storms, but it has been almost unrelenting in it's wind and cold, the kind of weather where you hate to leave the house. Jackie is almost constantly complaining about being here. We leave in less than four weeks and we'll be in Florida until Easter. We leave the day after Easter Sunday.
We're holding off on the series - BLUE LIGHTS, PLURIBUS, LANDMAN - where they release one episode a week, until they are almost complete. We have started a couple of Apple shows but have many saved to start when we finish up what we're watching. Jackie totally hates SEVERANCE, for one. We're watching THE MORNING SHOW, but I'm having a hard time deciding who is more annoying a character, Jennifer Aniston or Steve Carell.
Jackie finished the last two series of the Canadian CONTINUUM herself. I long lost interest. We did finish the Aussie political drama TOTAL CONTROL (on AMC+). We're up to the fifth (and last) series of the Norwegian cop show WISTING (also AMC+), though these only have four episodes per year. Watching a number of French shows.
Jackie wanted to watch 28 DAYS LATER (again; we saw it 20 years ago) before watching 28 YEARS LATER, but then she felt "do I really want to watch this with what is going on in the world?" so we quit. I know Patti didn't like BAD SHABBOS, but my cousin called it "the funniest thing I've ever seen" and Jackie wanted to watch it. Let's just say, Patti was right. The only thing I liked about it was Method Man as the doorman. A bunch of awful, shallow, stereotyped, obnoxious jerks, not worth your time, and completely unfunny.
But I had friends that quite like it, Jeff. Different sense of humor I guess.
I agree. But both of us agreed that it was bad. Plus, I hate that kind of passive aggressive behavior the mother showed.
I had a hard time getting started today. But here I am. It has been fairly quiet here, except for eye doctor appointments. Last week, Glen went to his retina specialist, because his ophthalmologist had noticed some swelling in the retina of one eye. The doctor said everything looked OK and to discontinue the drops prescribed by the ophthalmologist, so that was good. This coming Friday, I have an appointment with our ophthalmologist to have another laser procedure to clean up some film on one of my cataract lenses.
What have we been watching? The last episode of BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES in the 11th season. We enjoyed it and are looking forward to Season 12 sometime next year. In the meantime we will catch up with more MIDSOMER MURDERS, and maybe some COLUMBO. Last night we watched our three NCIS shows. We like all of them and they are all different. We have watched the first KAREN PIRIE episode in the 2nd season. Although I just read the book that season 2 is based on in late 2024 (A DARKER DOMAIN), I am trying to figure out how much the story has been changed for the TV adaptation.
Glen is now reading CRIMSON SNOW: WINTER MYSTERIES, a short story book edited by Martin Edwards. He has liked 3 of the 4 short stories he has read, and has just started a novella in that book by Victor Gunn.
I recently read GOODBYE TO BERLIN by Christopher Isherwood. I did not particularly enjoy reading it, I found it too depressing, but I think I am in the minority.
I am now rereading one of S.J. Rozan's books in the Lydia Chin & Bill Smith series, THE SHANGHAI MOON. I read it about 15 years ago, and I remember at the time I did not like it that well. But the subject matter is something I should like, and I am a big fan of the series, so I decided to give it another try. I am just twenty pages into it but liking it so far.
I had my lenses cleaned in the spring. Right now I am having trouble finding anything that grabs me-both in books and tv.
We watched the Stiller & Meara documentary tonight. I enjoyed it. I still remember their routines on Ed Sullivan.
Seeing something on film really is different from seeing it on stage, isn't it, Patti? I remember feeling that way when I saw Les Miz on film after I'd seen the stage show. It is different. I hope the weather clears up for you.
Really enjoyed that one. I never thought they were too funny but I thought their lives were very interesting.
Be glad you live in CA, Margot.
I never posted on Monday. Was quite busy.
Took a three-day weekend and got Boy #1 moved in to his new apartment in Minneapolis. Everything went fairly well except for the dang couch being too wide to fit through the doorway. We weren't going to try and take the front door off the hinges.
On Monday I was telling people about the kid and where he lived. I said, "I thought kids were supposed to less expensive as they got older?"
Snow here in Southern Wisconsin has not been too bad and I am thankful for a working snowblower.
Heard audio of a new translation of BERLIN SHUFFLE that was first published in 1937 and set in 1920s Berlin among some down-and-outs. Interesting read of post-war poor people and low-level crooks and pimps.
The author fled Germany after the Nuremberg laws and ended up in England. The English labeled him an enemy alien and sent him to Australia. He was freed from that status and took a ship back to England in 1942. The ship was sunk by a U-Boat.
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