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Apparently Joss Whedon has parted ways with The Nevers, which is coming to HBO in the Summer

Question posed on FB - "When did Joss Whedon become Brian Fuller?"

LOL!

Good question.

Followed by..."what was the last show that Brian Fuller actually stuck with?"

ME: Possibly Pushing Daisies, which admittedly didn't last long.

I was thinking about that when I was trying to watch the first episode of S1 Discovery "On Demand", and realized Fuller was the original show-runner, who parted ways after the first season.

Whedon appears to be doing the same thing.

Day#252 of Corona Virus Diaries/Lockdown - Happy Thanksgiving!

To those who celebrate.

I've had a good day. Spent most of it chatting with folks, cooking, and watching the Thanksgiving Parade and The Connors.

Zoom Chat
Mother and I had a long chat this morning, and bro and I texted each other.
Extended family Zoom chat at 2 pm went well - and was sort of cool, considering we were all chatting by video feed on Zoom from various corners of the United States: Tampa, Florida (Aunt K's group - the priest, her sister Aunt M, Aunt M's hubby's great aunt, and of course Aunt K - all sitting in her house evenly spaced with the windows open, fans on, and masks on (except for uncle and great Aunt. Aunt M and Aunt K are former nurses.) Chicago, Ill - (Aunt L, Uncle P (the artists/writers), cousin H, and her family - she hosted), Seattle, Washington (Cousin J who works for Microsoft and had formerly worked with Jeff Bestos at a new rocket company), Novato, California (Aunt C and D), and West Chester, PA (Uncle D and Aunt J).

So I talked to people in Florida, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington simultaneously. Gotta love technology. Cousin J apparently loved working with Jeff Bestos (my family and coworkers adore Amazon and has had nothing but pleasant experiences - the only people who appear to hate it - are online friends and church friends...who weirdly like the evil Walmart and Barnes & Nobel. Mileage? It varies.)

Also was able to clear up two mysteries.( Read more... )

Overall the chat went well. Texas contingent dropped out at the last minute.
Mother asked if they were pleased I joined - I honestly don't know, nor care. I was invited, I came.

Thanksgiving Dinner

The flowers (roses and day lilies) my father sent me are still going strong. I changed the water, and trimmed the stems again, and got rid of the blooms that had kind of completed their arc.

I cooked a game hen - possibly a bit too long, although still good. I might have overcompensated. Last year - I'd under-cooked it. So was wary. Also now they provide single hens, instead of two in a package - which I'm very pleased by. I split them in half, and have one half tonight, and one tomorrow. For sides? I got stuff from Foodkick and heated them up in the microwave - green beans with garlic, roasted root vegetables, and quinoa. Sauce? White wine, citris, honey, fresh rosemary, and the neck, heart and liver of the bird.

Now, I'm heating up my pie. While my brother and niece were happy to have made their first pies. (I bought a frozen gluten free pumpkin pie from Main Pies.)

The rain ended, the clouds cleared, and it turned into a beautiful day in the 60s. One of the warmer Thanksgivings to date.

The parade while odd, was not that different. It focused more on minority dance presentations. The marching bands weren't in evidence. And everything was pretty much New York based. But there were still decent floats, balloons and musical performances - from Broadway casts, and various commercial products. Missing were the crowds, the audience, and of course the marching bands.



I'm feeling very grateful and thankful at the moment. For what I have, and for not losing any of it.

2020 has been a hellish year, I'm very grateful for what I have.

Next Day in Book Challenge...

Because I have no idea which day it is...I think it is Day 28 in the very long Book Challenge - whose link keeps disappearing on me.

The prompt is ...Name a book with antonyms in the title

Just in case you're think WTF? Antonyms are a word and its opposite.

After some looking I found a book I'd read with antonym's in the title.

Lisa: Bright and Dark by John Neufield

I read this book in the fourth grade - we were living in Pennsylvania at the time, and I checked out at the book mobile that came by - or rather that one of my best friends took me too - the one into books, not the one into horror movies. I had two best friends, Marcy and Debbie. I was closest to Marcy, who loved books and to tell stories. Anyhow, Marcy introduced me to the book mobile - and I checked out Lisa: Bright & Dark - a book I adored and haunted me years later.

I still have vague memories of this book - specifically a scene where the protagonist falls through a plate glass window. It's a novel about mental illness, specifically bi-polar, and delves into the fraught relationships between friends and family - how mental illness affects those relationships. Unlike similar novels - in this one, Lisa's friends work together to get her the help she needs.

Lisa Shilling is 16, smart, attractive—and she is losing her mind. Some days are light, and everything is normal; during her dark days, she hides deep within herself, and nothing can reach her. Her teachers ignore what is happening. Her parents deny it. Lisa's friends are the only ones who are listening—and they walk with her where adults fear to tread. This classic novel of a teenager's descent into madness, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, has remained a best seller for close to thirty years

Day#24 of the Gratitude Challenge

This is Day 24 of the Gratitude Challenge.

The prompt is What about social media are you grateful for?

Short answer? You. All of you.

Long Answer? The friendships and connections that I've made with others over the years. Which is another way of stating that I'm grateful for all of you. It's like having hundreds of pen pals from all over the world.

Because of social media - I've met people in Sweden, Greece, Japan, India, UK, France, Spain, Russia, Brazil, Ireland, Africa, and across the United States and Canada.

I remember one Christmas, my mother looked over my shoulder as I was reading posts on Live Journal on their computer (I was visiting them at the time) - and asked, wait, "you are corresponding with someone in Greece?"

Through social media - I've learned people are people wherever they may be.
More connects us than divides us. And we can share so much, without ever seeing each others faces. That we are all more than our gender, our ethnicity, our race, our sexuality, etc. We are unique individuals. We each bring something special to the world. We are all gifts. And we are in this together - for good or ill. And we can only get through it together.

I've learned so much from my friends on social media. I've gained so much. You've taught me so much about myself and the world around me, and you continue to do it every day. And you've often kept me sane when things seemed too difficult to bear.

So the best thing, the thing I'm most grateful for on social media is all of you.