Day #21 of the 30 Day of Television Challenge

This is Day #21 of 30 Days of Television Challenge

The prompt is A favorite documentary, science or nature series or mini-series (can't be a reality show) (the prompt was not my idea, it was atpo omn - the only one who gave suggestions. )

I don't know, I'm not a huge doc fan and I'm drawing a blank on nature series.

Because there's been an increasingly annoying trend towards obscure 1950s and 60s television series that no one can watch now or would want to. (No offense but most of those shows were horribly racist, sexist, and dated.) The television series has to be post 1980s and available either on a streaming service,cable or network/broadcast television. I know you have watched television since the 1980s. Stop picking shows from your childhoods.

Mine? Ken Burns Country Music Documentary - which is among the few that I watched and enjoyed all the way through - much to my considerable surprise. (I realized I enjoyed country music far more than I thought.)

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Day#17 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

Day #17 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge


The prompt is A Zombie film, song, television series or books series that you enjoyed.

It should be noted that I don't like zombies. Although I get the metaphor - particularly now. Some of the maskless wonders remind me a lot of zombies.

That said, I've seen a lot of zombie films. I'm going with a musical, just because.

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Mine is Anna and the Apocalypse. Basically it's a Teenage Christmas Musical in England, with Zombies. It wasn't as good as I thought it would be, but still entertaining.

For someone who doesn't like zombies, I've apparently seen a lot of zombie movies.

Day #230 of the Corona Virus Diaries...

My walks are keeping me sane, I think.



Mother is doing okay. She's catherizing father, and regaling us with all of the details. Meanwhile she talked to her friends and brother, and felt the need to regale me with their activities as well.

My brother life sounds the same - as if nothing has changed since COVID.
He already has a fire pit - so doesn't need to buy one to have guests in the winter months - assuming he figures that out.

Niece is dating. Sigh. And she is her parents daughter - despite what she thinks. The hottie from California, who everyone is into, has eyes for niece. You've seen photos of niece, does this surprise you? It shouldn't.
I feel like my niece is living out a netflix teen Covid romance.

Also she went to the emergency room.

Me: Wait. What?
Mother: I asked the same thing.
ME: And?
Mother: Seems her friend broke her foot -
Me: Ouch.
Mother: Or her ankle, can't remember which.
Me: Doesn't matter. What happened?
Mother: Not much - she went with friend to emergency room, stayed with her, and came home. Wasn't that amazing?
ME: Considering we're in the middle of a pandemic, I'm amazed they let her.
I'm beginning to wonder if she lives in another reality - I'm in COVID, she's not.
Mother: You're brother is relieved she's socializing despite COVID, the summer she was too isolated with her parents.
Me: Not that isolated. I was more isolated than she was as a teen...with no COVID.

Also, I'm not as impressed by niece going to emergency room with friend as mother. I went to the emergency room in college with a complete stranger, whose name I didn't even know. Granted it wasn't during a pandemic.

Anyhow after talking to mother, and having watched most of Bly Manor - I realized it was a beautiful day and I needed a walk.



Walk was lovely. I even exchanged a greeting with a nice attractive guy who is close to my age. At a social distance of ten feet of course. Saw his face - and he kind of saw mine. He had friendly eyes.

And I saw the bagpiper, who I kept hearing at various points - the plaintive haunting cry of bagpipes. He could play - so it wasn't bad.



And I've taken a break from the news. I don't know what is going on and don't care. Cousin on FB was scheduling Thanksgiving and Christmas Zoom Family Gatherings with her immediate family. Mine doesn't do Zoom, we call each other. We're not gadget happy.

The cemetery calms me. After some meandering, I find my depression, fears and anxieties melt away. The crystal blue of the sky, the warmth of the brilliant sun, and the trees falling over me...



I walked a total of 4.2 miles today - sore afterwards, I felt lighter than I did when I started. Less weighed down by information. I also went to the grocery store - where I managed to get a $100 gift card towards my next grocery purchase. My Food Town points were above the 87,000 points required for a card. I had over 100,000 points. They'd never checked the number of points received. And I almost didn't give her the Food Town Card to look at today.

The Universe seemed to decide to elevate my financial woes this week - I found out that Con Ed adjusted my rates based on my actual meter readings resulting in quite a bit in credits, and my pay isn't being reduced.
I'm taking this as a sign that I'm doing the right things and to stick to my path.

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1. I've come to the conclusion that telling people you don't want advice on social media is akin to throwing a stick and telling a dog not to retrieve it. This little bit of understanding (because I can't spell epipthany) comes via my observance of various folks on FB not asking for advice, and in fact advising folks not to advise them - only to get nothing but advice.

People just can't help themselves, can they? Kind of like pavolov's dog.

Hence the reason on Dreamwidth folks often turn off comments.

2. Finished The Haunting of Bly Manor

It was...okay. The first three or four episodes are actually creepy and do a good job of building a sense of dread. Then...it kind of goes downhill for a bit in regards to pacing...I got bored. Kiss of death for a horror series - boredom. I fast-forwarded out of boredom. A first.

The series works best when it focuses on Dani - the au pair, and when we are in Dani's point of view. Everyone else - not so much.

The plot? Ah. ( Read more... )

Overall? Compelling but quite flawed, and extremely slow in places.

3. Watching the play What the Constitution Means to Me" on Amazon. This is the one woman or two person play that was shown across the country from 2017 until about when the pandemic hit. And filmed and streamed once the pandemic hit.

Heidi Schreck’s show What the Constitution Means to Me is a (mostly) one-woman performance that shifts between constitutional history and personal storytelling. Schreck opens the show by re-creating her own teenage speech about the Constitution for the American Legion and then considers that experience with her understanding of the role of women in American history — and the history of women in her family. After both an Off Broadway and Broadway run, a filmed version directed by Marielle Heller is now available to watch on Prime Video. Here, two Vulture writers discuss what this latest incarnation of What the Constitution Means to Me means to them.

It's funny in places, but mainly feels like an extended rant or a scream of rage. Although I agree with her. And what she states needs to be said.

Also, she does rip apart the insanely toxic male society that we currently live within - the society that is trying to kill us at the moment.

Using the Constitution to show what should be done and what should be followed.

Adds to it - with young fifteen girls debating the US Constitution. They even do a debate on the stage - regarding whether they should abolish the US Constitution.

Worth watching, particularly the last debate.