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All right, the kitten has a home with me. Her name is Bear because of the stubby tail and how she growls when she eats.

( I love all the animals equally, but some are more equal than others )

My team laid the worst goose egg today. The fan base is completely melting down on twitter and the message boards, and I am enjoying it! Posers. Back in MY day we counted first downs as a win and didn't expect to go anywhere in December, and we still loved our loser team. . . Some of that was true.

Spotify’s Gimlet studios released its latest podcast today — Case 63. An English language adaptation of creator Julio Rojas’ Caso 63, this 10-episode audio drama follows a New York psychiatrist (Julianne Moore) who begins treating a patient (Oscar Isaac) that claims to be from the year 2062. Following a format that presents itself as recorded therapy sessions, listeners are taken along for the ride as the story quickly evolves into something that threatens the boundaries of the possible and the real.

10 episodes of 10-15mins each. I'm halfway through but I'm really enjoying it. Both actors do an amazing job. It's pretty heavy into world ending pandemics, so make sure that won't make you feel worse about real life.

Halloween Charcuterie

I went to the lake this morning to swim, and I only stayed in about half an hour, but wow am I sore. These are not the muscles I was working out when I made myself elliptical and lift. I took the weekend off hoping to soak up some sun and sleep at night, but it's supposed to start raining tonight and not stop until Thursday. Alas. But, I did not get sunburnt, and I'm really enjoying the book I started!


I've been saving Solos on Amazon Prime for when I really needed it on night shift. That moment came last night, and OMG I loved Mackie's episode Tom so much. And Helen Mirren's Peg because she is amazing and the two eps are connected. I bawled so much. They are designed to make you cry but it is excellent story telling by excellent actors. It's all about family.

These two plus Morgan Freeman's Stuart are the best, and highest rated. I also thought Anne Hathoway's Leah and Uzo Aduba's Sasha (though this is the most pandemic contenty one of them all, so it might not be for everyone) were good. I hated Jenny because cringe and Nera because it's pregnancy horror.

The series ponders what it means to be human, arguing that we are connected to others through shared experiences, even in our most isolated moments.

I also finally watched this video of Oscar Isaac, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Kline, Jessica Chastain and others talking about their teacher at Juilliard, their time at school, and acting. It's fun, informative, and interesting, and Mackie is very fuzzy, Oscar's gray hair is beautiful, and Jessica asks the hard questions. They're all so smart, and they get it. They talk about the racism, elitism, and sexism they faced and is ongoing in today's culture.

Masculinity and Hawaii 5-0 op-ed, but I thought she hit several good points. The only reason I can deal with all the ridiculously over the top action and violence is that Danny too is often going "Really?". As far as Steve/Danny goes, in this case I'm easy and could go either way. Platonic is just as meaningful to me as if they did become a couple. Unlike, say Dean/Cas from supernatural, Steve and Danny are much more complete characters and their trauma is totally different. BFFs would be a happily ever after for them. Similarly, I like the new series The Rookie because an older Nathan Fillion is a breath of fresh air next to a lot of the examples were given of toxic masculinity in the police force.

In Oscar Isaac news:

Triple Frontier Shows Netflix Using the Narcos Template to Shine a Light on Veterans’ Issues I'd like to see this movie actually start a conversation about veterans' issues, but it looks a little heavy on the pew-pew-pew kill-all-Mexicans front.



Oscar Isaac looks real good though, and apparently he's taking a year off after Star Wars, so less stuff in the near future from him.

( Into the Spider-Verse spoilers? )

Basically, I'm super excited for this movie, and make sure you sit through the credits for the extra scene.


ETA: I'm trying out the poll option just to see what folks would rather see around here.

So, I went and saw the late show of Annihilation last week. It's been a while since I saw a movie after 3pm, there were definitely more people there, but not a crowd. I'm glad I don't have a problem going to the movies by myself, because it's a lot easier to coordinate. Nothing new in the trailers but there was an extended one for Rampage which continues to look like a fun romp (though I have no nostalgia of the game like my coworkers), and I continue to be interested in A Quiet Place. I'll be glad when Red Sparrow moves on. I'm neither interested in Russians or spy movies, though Jennifer Lawrence continues to be beautiful.

( cut because probably less people have seen this one, and it really didn't work for me. . . )

However, it's got a 79 on metacritic, so maybe it's a "me" problem instead of a movie problem.

tl;dr - I'm going to try to read the book, because it is an interesting premise and I think I would have loved the girl's science crew if the movie had just gotten out of it's own way. It felt like it was trying to be Arrival in tone, but it just tried to get too clever and for me it failed to even be that entertaining. Thank goodness for the giant lime coke I was drinking.





Saw Black Panther enjoyed it a lot. Maybe I should have seen it a little earlier, because all the hype about Killmonger made me super excited, and I felt like he didn't live up to it. Not the character or his backstory. I think maybe I wanted some inner conflict? I say all that as someone who can not write a villain to save my life. I don't know? But I did save as many write ups as I could about the movie so I could read them after I watched it, and maybe they will change my mind.

I echo every good thing everyone has said about the women, they were a group of spectacular actors and characters. Shuri is the most adorable little sister ever. I was more than half in love with all of them, and good thing because they got to emote a lot more than poor T'Challa did. They did a lot of heavy lifting to keep us caring and the plot moving.

I listened to the soundtrack when I went grocery shopping after and really enjoyed it. Give it a listen if you haven't yet.

There was an obnoxious dude in the back, ruined the ending by laughing over the slightly overwrought sunset scene. So there goes my enjoyment of watching movies with others.