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shadowkat1. Interesting discussion of Dyslexia on CBS This Morning. But it is different for everyone -- this sort of generalizes about it.
But it does underline that it has nothing to do with intelligence.
2. For the Breaking Bad Fans - The Breaking Bad Movie: El Camino Trailer -- and the airdate? 10/11/19 on Netflix. (Don't you miss the days in which this stuff was available on cable? Or you just needed a cable subscription?)
And the article on it is HERE
Nearly six years ago, viewers of “Breaking Bad” watched the final episode of that series, in which the drug kingpin Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) emerged from hiding and sacrificed his life to rescue his one-time partner, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) from an Aryan Brotherhood gang. When White expired in a meth lab and the credits rolled, audiences believed it might be the last time they would see many of these characters.
But it turns out the story of “Breaking Bad” isn’t quite finished.
Netflix announced on Saturday that it will release a new “Breaking Bad” movie that will center on Pinkman, the excitable meth cook played by Paul, who was last seen in the TV series speeding off in a stolen Chevrolet El Camino to parts unknown.
The film, called “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” was written and directed by Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” and will be released on Netflix on Oct. 11. The film is also expected to be broadcast at a later date on AMC, the cable network where the TV series was originally shown from 2008 to 2013.
“It’s a chapter of ‘Breaking Bad’ that I didn’t realize that I wanted,” Paul said in an interview. “And now that I have it, I’m so happy that it’s there.”
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Netflix provided only the briefest plot summary of “El Camino,” which states, “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.”
Paul said in the interview that he was forbidden from revealing anything more about what happens in the film. But, like the show’s fans, he said he also believed he had said goodbye to the world of “Breaking Bad” when the TV series concluded.
“It was a hard, emotional thing for all of us,” Paul said. “And when the finale happened, we all got together and hugged it out and said I love you. And that was it.”
In his final screen appearance as Pinkman, Paul said, “I loved the way Jesse was flying through the exterior gates of the Nazi compound. He’s screaming, he’s crying. He’s got these emotions going through his body. And then it just cuts away from him.”
But Paul said that about two years ago, he received a phone call from Gilligan, ostensibly to talk about plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the debut of “Breaking Bad.”
“At the very end of the conversation,” Paul said, “he mentioned that he had an idea of where to take it from here, and he wanted to hear my thoughts on it. I quickly told Vince that I would follow him into a fire.”
Paul said he could understand if audiences were wary to revisit the conclusion of “Breaking Bad,” whose last episode remains one of the few highly regarded finales of the modern TV era. (A spinoff series, “Better Call Saul,” starring Bob Odenkirk, has stuck to the origin story of the Saul Goodman character, before Walter White crossed his path.)
But Paul said any potential misgivings were quickly dispelled when he finished reading Gilligan’s script for “El Camino.”
“I couldn’t speak for a good 30, 60 seconds,” he said. “I was just lost
in my thoughts. As the guy who played the guy, I was so happy that Vince wanted to take me on this journey.”
Even though, I am. I felt the series ended with Ozymandias. I didn't want any more after that. It's very odd -- the shows that have finales, and get spin-offs and get movies, I often don't want anything else from, while the one's that get cancelled and don't get any of that -- I do. I wanted more Buffy and Angel, I didn't care one way or the other about Bab5 once it ended, STNG once it ended, Game of Thrones once it ended, or Veronica Mars once it ended. But, I get more of those in either prequels, sequels, or weird continuations. While Buffy - no. Angel - no. Farscape? Got a movie. That was it. Star Wars? I wanted more, but it disappointed me and I got frustrated (so maybe it's best not too?) BladeRunner? I didn't want anything else.
Terminator? No. (Sarah Connor Chronicles - yes, Terminator movies? No) Vampire Diaries? No. X-Files? No. MASH? No. But I'd have loved more Merlin. Also, a spin-off for Lucifer and more of it.
But alas. They don't listen to me. Which you all are most likely pleased about. ;-)
Anyhow, I may or may not check out the BB film -- I did like Jesse Pinkman. Actually he was the only in the series that I liked at the end.
3. Good news, my apartment didn't have any gas leaks -- so no repairs are required in my apartment. Apparently none of the apartments along the "M" line had any issues.
In other news, I'm flirting with Chemistry.com. I've posted a profile -- I just don't want to spend money on it yet. ($6.95 and up...) Everything costs money.
Did get some hits, and two people saved me as a favorite, and one liked my photo -- if this is true or not is up in the air -- they are trying to get me to subscribe and I'm on the fence. So they finding ways to give me incentative. So far haven't seen any matches -- the guys are all much shorter than I am, or much lower income. They've also put me as a Negotiator/Director personality type, while pairing me with Builders..I don't know if that works. I miss the INFJ/ENFJ personality typing...at least I understood it. Who knows, maybe it is the same. Although they just asked me ten questions and what my hand looked like.
[I did a better job with the photo this round -- I used a somewhat flattering pic of me in a bathing suit on the deck of a ship in Costa Rica, in front of the sunset. All you really see is the silhouette. Of course this was twenty pounds ago. But I'm technically on a diet -- moving slowly towards one...so perhaps I can fit into said bathing suit again come March. I can see why people might like it -- it's gutsy.)
Goes to show you if you find the love of your life? You probably accidentally collided and the Universe decided to put you together to amuse itself.
4. Tried the second book in the Time Served series (about the lawyer) but it was bad. It was about a spoiled rich girl - work-a-holic attorney who is being forced to take time off by the firm. She thinks she's the best lawyer ever and no one is worth her notice. It's sort of funny in some respects, they have locked her out of the elevator before 7 AM and after 7PM, and denied her access to the network at home and before 7Am and after 7am, and during weekends. (Although I don't know why she can't just email stuff to herself -- possibly a confidentiality issue or security issue?) So, what does she do? Tries to bully the IT guy into ignoring these instructions. The IT guy gets turned on by her -- because he's as much a cliche as the attorney is. Honestly, this writer needs to stop writing about workplaces she's never entered in her life. And unlike the last novel, there's no interesting legal subplot or side characters to grab my notice. And... in the last novel, the heroine and hero were likable, these guys aren't.
That's my difficulty with contemporary romance novels -- the character development is almost non-existent. The writer relies heavily on cliches and well-worn tropes about business, law, medical profession, etc, and there's a lot of boring sex.
Also the two characters act like teenagers regardless of their age. And, they are usually between the ages of 20-32, because no one over that age has a romance. The guy is often older than the woman. In this one at least, the woman is the high-powered mean attorney and the guy is the IT nerd, but they still fall into sexist stereotypes, offensive ones actually.
Ugh. Smart Bitches...you've let me down AGAIN. Although to be fair they did rec both with reservations.
Also gave up on The Cooking Gene, White Fragility, and flirting with Black is my Body, a selection of personal essays/stories. Tried reading the first one -- but realized halfway through that I really didn't want to read about someone being stabbed and what it was like to be brutally stabbed in a mall by a crazy white guy.
So, I'm reading a historical romance about a female jewel thief in 1800s London (I think it is 1800s, it could be early -- it's in St. Giles, which is a scary part of London and a den of thieves in all American written historical novels. Whether this is true in actuality? I've no clue. My British history is sort of limited to one year in the Sixth Grade, when I did a research report on Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada -- (I got a blue ribbon at the history/sciences fair. I created a map, aged it, drew a picture of Drake (which looked like him), hand wrote a paper (we didn't have computers or a type-writer back then), and his sail boat -- which I made out of wood with my Dad. I was 12.) Other than that -- everything I know is from books, British costume dramas, my father the frustrated history major and my mother who reads the stuff as well, plus online historians.
Anyhow, the romance is between the jewel thief and a bow street runner hunting her down. She was raised by a sort of Fagin character. Feels like the female take on Oliver Twist. She's a breath of fresh air after the last two books I read, both contemporaries, with door-mat heroines.
I'm thinking of sticking to the historical romances from herein, I'm always annoyed by the contemporaries. I guess if you like lots of kinky sex...but wouldn't it get boring reading it? My own imagination is far more clever possibly due to reading fanfic and Nancy Friday and well, being me.
We'll see if my own contemporary romance sees the light of publication or completion. Completion right now would be nice. It's longer than my sci-fi novel is at the moment, which has more to it. Granted I have a tendency to get bored with my own plots -- and slowly they become more convoluted as I go. Also, a weird need to fill in all the details. The reader does not need all the details. (These get thrown out by the second or third draft.)
But it does underline that it has nothing to do with intelligence.
2. For the Breaking Bad Fans - The Breaking Bad Movie: El Camino Trailer -- and the airdate? 10/11/19 on Netflix. (Don't you miss the days in which this stuff was available on cable? Or you just needed a cable subscription?)
And the article on it is HERE
Nearly six years ago, viewers of “Breaking Bad” watched the final episode of that series, in which the drug kingpin Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) emerged from hiding and sacrificed his life to rescue his one-time partner, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) from an Aryan Brotherhood gang. When White expired in a meth lab and the credits rolled, audiences believed it might be the last time they would see many of these characters.
But it turns out the story of “Breaking Bad” isn’t quite finished.
Netflix announced on Saturday that it will release a new “Breaking Bad” movie that will center on Pinkman, the excitable meth cook played by Paul, who was last seen in the TV series speeding off in a stolen Chevrolet El Camino to parts unknown.
The film, called “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” was written and directed by Vince Gilligan, the creator of “Breaking Bad,” and will be released on Netflix on Oct. 11. The film is also expected to be broadcast at a later date on AMC, the cable network where the TV series was originally shown from 2008 to 2013.
“It’s a chapter of ‘Breaking Bad’ that I didn’t realize that I wanted,” Paul said in an interview. “And now that I have it, I’m so happy that it’s there.”
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Netflix provided only the briefest plot summary of “El Camino,” which states, “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.”
Paul said in the interview that he was forbidden from revealing anything more about what happens in the film. But, like the show’s fans, he said he also believed he had said goodbye to the world of “Breaking Bad” when the TV series concluded.
“It was a hard, emotional thing for all of us,” Paul said. “And when the finale happened, we all got together and hugged it out and said I love you. And that was it.”
In his final screen appearance as Pinkman, Paul said, “I loved the way Jesse was flying through the exterior gates of the Nazi compound. He’s screaming, he’s crying. He’s got these emotions going through his body. And then it just cuts away from him.”
But Paul said that about two years ago, he received a phone call from Gilligan, ostensibly to talk about plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the debut of “Breaking Bad.”
“At the very end of the conversation,” Paul said, “he mentioned that he had an idea of where to take it from here, and he wanted to hear my thoughts on it. I quickly told Vince that I would follow him into a fire.”
Paul said he could understand if audiences were wary to revisit the conclusion of “Breaking Bad,” whose last episode remains one of the few highly regarded finales of the modern TV era. (A spinoff series, “Better Call Saul,” starring Bob Odenkirk, has stuck to the origin story of the Saul Goodman character, before Walter White crossed his path.)
But Paul said any potential misgivings were quickly dispelled when he finished reading Gilligan’s script for “El Camino.”
“I couldn’t speak for a good 30, 60 seconds,” he said. “I was just lost
in my thoughts. As the guy who played the guy, I was so happy that Vince wanted to take me on this journey.”
Even though, I am. I felt the series ended with Ozymandias. I didn't want any more after that. It's very odd -- the shows that have finales, and get spin-offs and get movies, I often don't want anything else from, while the one's that get cancelled and don't get any of that -- I do. I wanted more Buffy and Angel, I didn't care one way or the other about Bab5 once it ended, STNG once it ended, Game of Thrones once it ended, or Veronica Mars once it ended. But, I get more of those in either prequels, sequels, or weird continuations. While Buffy - no. Angel - no. Farscape? Got a movie. That was it. Star Wars? I wanted more, but it disappointed me and I got frustrated (so maybe it's best not too?) BladeRunner? I didn't want anything else.
Terminator? No. (Sarah Connor Chronicles - yes, Terminator movies? No) Vampire Diaries? No. X-Files? No. MASH? No. But I'd have loved more Merlin. Also, a spin-off for Lucifer and more of it.
But alas. They don't listen to me. Which you all are most likely pleased about. ;-)
Anyhow, I may or may not check out the BB film -- I did like Jesse Pinkman. Actually he was the only in the series that I liked at the end.
3. Good news, my apartment didn't have any gas leaks -- so no repairs are required in my apartment. Apparently none of the apartments along the "M" line had any issues.
In other news, I'm flirting with Chemistry.com. I've posted a profile -- I just don't want to spend money on it yet. ($6.95 and up...) Everything costs money.
Did get some hits, and two people saved me as a favorite, and one liked my photo -- if this is true or not is up in the air -- they are trying to get me to subscribe and I'm on the fence. So they finding ways to give me incentative. So far haven't seen any matches -- the guys are all much shorter than I am, or much lower income. They've also put me as a Negotiator/Director personality type, while pairing me with Builders..I don't know if that works. I miss the INFJ/ENFJ personality typing...at least I understood it. Who knows, maybe it is the same. Although they just asked me ten questions and what my hand looked like.
[I did a better job with the photo this round -- I used a somewhat flattering pic of me in a bathing suit on the deck of a ship in Costa Rica, in front of the sunset. All you really see is the silhouette. Of course this was twenty pounds ago. But I'm technically on a diet -- moving slowly towards one...so perhaps I can fit into said bathing suit again come March. I can see why people might like it -- it's gutsy.)
Goes to show you if you find the love of your life? You probably accidentally collided and the Universe decided to put you together to amuse itself.
4. Tried the second book in the Time Served series (about the lawyer) but it was bad. It was about a spoiled rich girl - work-a-holic attorney who is being forced to take time off by the firm. She thinks she's the best lawyer ever and no one is worth her notice. It's sort of funny in some respects, they have locked her out of the elevator before 7 AM and after 7PM, and denied her access to the network at home and before 7Am and after 7am, and during weekends. (Although I don't know why she can't just email stuff to herself -- possibly a confidentiality issue or security issue?) So, what does she do? Tries to bully the IT guy into ignoring these instructions. The IT guy gets turned on by her -- because he's as much a cliche as the attorney is. Honestly, this writer needs to stop writing about workplaces she's never entered in her life. And unlike the last novel, there's no interesting legal subplot or side characters to grab my notice. And... in the last novel, the heroine and hero were likable, these guys aren't.
That's my difficulty with contemporary romance novels -- the character development is almost non-existent. The writer relies heavily on cliches and well-worn tropes about business, law, medical profession, etc, and there's a lot of boring sex.
Also the two characters act like teenagers regardless of their age. And, they are usually between the ages of 20-32, because no one over that age has a romance. The guy is often older than the woman. In this one at least, the woman is the high-powered mean attorney and the guy is the IT nerd, but they still fall into sexist stereotypes, offensive ones actually.
Ugh. Smart Bitches...you've let me down AGAIN. Although to be fair they did rec both with reservations.
Also gave up on The Cooking Gene, White Fragility, and flirting with Black is my Body, a selection of personal essays/stories. Tried reading the first one -- but realized halfway through that I really didn't want to read about someone being stabbed and what it was like to be brutally stabbed in a mall by a crazy white guy.
So, I'm reading a historical romance about a female jewel thief in 1800s London (I think it is 1800s, it could be early -- it's in St. Giles, which is a scary part of London and a den of thieves in all American written historical novels. Whether this is true in actuality? I've no clue. My British history is sort of limited to one year in the Sixth Grade, when I did a research report on Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada -- (I got a blue ribbon at the history/sciences fair. I created a map, aged it, drew a picture of Drake (which looked like him), hand wrote a paper (we didn't have computers or a type-writer back then), and his sail boat -- which I made out of wood with my Dad. I was 12.) Other than that -- everything I know is from books, British costume dramas, my father the frustrated history major and my mother who reads the stuff as well, plus online historians.
Anyhow, the romance is between the jewel thief and a bow street runner hunting her down. She was raised by a sort of Fagin character. Feels like the female take on Oliver Twist. She's a breath of fresh air after the last two books I read, both contemporaries, with door-mat heroines.
I'm thinking of sticking to the historical romances from herein, I'm always annoyed by the contemporaries. I guess if you like lots of kinky sex...but wouldn't it get boring reading it? My own imagination is far more clever possibly due to reading fanfic and Nancy Friday and well, being me.
We'll see if my own contemporary romance sees the light of publication or completion. Completion right now would be nice. It's longer than my sci-fi novel is at the moment, which has more to it. Granted I have a tendency to get bored with my own plots -- and slowly they become more convoluted as I go. Also, a weird need to fill in all the details. The reader does not need all the details. (These get thrown out by the second or third draft.)
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Date: 2019-08-27 03:22 am (UTC)My problem was never crippling though it was on occasion embarrassing, if for no other reason than I was nearly twenty before I learned I wasn't like everyone else. We only had two reading groups when I was in grade school. I was always in the high one. I remember wondering why the kids in the low group just couldn't do it. If there had been writing groups I might have been in the lower to my horror. ;o)
(ETA) Speaking of not understanding: I wondered why you had a sudden interest in chemistry. Then it hit me. Oh, that kind of chemistry!
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Date: 2019-08-27 12:50 pm (UTC)It wasn't that I couldn't make out the letters or shapes -- so much that they were teaching them phonetically, and I couldn't make out certain sounds or reproduce them. When they switched in the second grade to sigh and see, that helped. But I still struggled with flipping letters and skipping spaces -- mine was more spatial. It's hard to explain. But I don't think I ever saw it the way she describes it. And I struggled with writing for a while because I flipped things. My early writing shows a lot of backwards B's and C's and D's. Like you -- I have good and bad days. There are days that I read rather quickly and have no problems, others when it's like wading through quick sand, and often depends on how distracted I am. And I feel as if the words make no sense.
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Date: 2019-08-27 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-27 08:44 am (UTC)ETA And if a character is a Bow Street Runner this must be set before the establishment of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829.
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Date: 2019-08-27 12:41 pm (UTC)ETA And if a character is a Bow Street Runner this must be set before the establishment of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829.
Interesting, because in the chapter I just read, there is a brief two sentence mention of how the Bow Street Runners were struggling with funding ever since the Metropolitan Police got established, but still were more effective. So...it must take place around 1830s. It's after the War with Napoleon, because the Captain of the Runners had fought in France with the hero, another of the runners. So, 1830s or 1840s?
Apparently the writer decided that the Bow Street Runners were still operative shortly after the Metropolitan Police was established?
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Date: 2019-08-27 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-27 03:19 pm (UTC)That's what it says in the book -- so apparently this writer did her research. Also it puts a date or period on the novel - early to mid 1800s. Most of the historical romances, I've noticed, take place in Britain (usually London or near it) around the early to mid 1800s or 19th Century. We do get a few that are 18th Century, and several in the Middle Ages, although those are rarer now -- and tend to have been published prior to the 21 Century. Also they are mostly in Britain.
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Date: 2019-08-27 12:27 pm (UTC)So, it did exist and was a notorious slum? Cool. I was beginning to wonder if they were making it up, but since it's so many of them....