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These daily entries are going to end soon - partly because I'm losing steam, and we're slowly opening up again. New York City is tip-toeing its way back. Granted they lifted all the mask mandates - but to be honest the mandates weren't why people wore masks - people wore them, because they realized they worked. And workplaces, stores, public transportation, hospital, etc did the same.
The plexi-glass makes me nervous. I'm glad crazy workplace never went that route.
Regarding crazy workplace - apparently it does work 24/7 when it can get away with it. I got emails from Breaking Bad Manager to the lawyer regarding my Painting Project.
1. The Kennedy Center Honors for 2020 - were postponed to May 2021, and will air in June. They are honoring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Allen, a violinist that I've not heard of (because I don't keep track of that sort of thing), Garth Brooks, and Joan Baez. Dick Van Dyke was thrilled - at 90 something to be honored - it's the caper on his career (he stated) and he loved the more intimate gathering. (Individually spaced tables on the Kennedy Center Opera Stage, looking out on an empty audience. Each could bring a few guests. Baez brought Dr. Fauci because she'd struck up a correspondence with him after painting his portrait and posting it online.)
Mother brought it up in our chats today. But she forgot about Joan Baez.
2. Mother also talked about her friends who have to go to Germany to get needed Cancer treatment. ( Read more... )
Meanwhile, church acquaintance is still drumming up funds for her expensive cancer treatments in Mexico. ( Read more... )
3. Tried to watch episode five of "The Nevers" and it didn't hold my interest. It reminds me a great deal of how I felt towards Dollhouse and Marvel Agents of Shield - I didn't like any of the characters, so didn't care. It's an odd thing about writers - I can fall in love with one of their works, but not like anything else they write. And often wonder - how they came up with the one I did like. Actually this is true of many artists - television actors, singers, bands, etc. Often I will like one thing they did - love it to the point of fannish obsession, but nothing else.
This does however happen more with writers than any other artists for some reason or other.
I don't quite know why that is?
ETA: Just found out that Claudia Black has a role in the sixth episode. And they do a big twist of sorts. I'm not sure I'll like the twist - too comic booky. But I only have two episodes left - so I might as well finish the season.
4. I had a bit too much sugar today - and my nerves are all a-tingly. ( Read more... )
5. Grey's Anatomy keeps removing characters from its roster.( Read more... )
6. Speaking of killing off characters or removing them from your roster? Mare of East Town surprised me in its fifth episode. It killed off a character that I didn't expect it to kill off. Granted these shows do, but this shocked me.
The series is filmed on location in suburban Philadelphia during the winter months - reminding me why northeastern winters can be dreary.
( filming per Wiki was on location in suburban PA subbing for Chester County and Delaware County )
I spent my childhood in Chester County. And this reminded me more of Allentown and Delaware. Not the rolling country-side where I grew up. But it is true - I was a kid in the 1970s, and Chester County was a tad more rural back then, and a lot less housing. Also we tend to romanticize the past in our heads.
But I don't remember the area being that dreary. Of course they are filming in late fall and winter, and the northeast is dreary that time of year.
Mare - is in her early 40s, has a grandchild by a dead son, and a living teenage daughter applying to colleges. She's divorced, with her mother, as portrayed by Jean Smart, living with her. Julianne Nicholson plays her best friend (I'm a fan of Nicholson, and all the female actresses in the series). Dating a college creative writing professor, and the detective who has come down to help her with the case.
There's two cases, which at first appear to be interconnected, but in reality most likely aren't. One is the missing girls case - or the case that has gone on for several years now - and Mare can't manage to solve, and is the whole reason the detective was sent to help her. The other is a murder - the case he is sent to help her with, and resolve, and they believe is potentially linked to the other case. (It's not.)
I'm finding it compelling - more than expected. It is depressing though. And not meant for the faint of heart.
The plexi-glass makes me nervous. I'm glad crazy workplace never went that route.
Regarding crazy workplace - apparently it does work 24/7 when it can get away with it. I got emails from Breaking Bad Manager to the lawyer regarding my Painting Project.
1. The Kennedy Center Honors for 2020 - were postponed to May 2021, and will air in June. They are honoring Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Allen, a violinist that I've not heard of (because I don't keep track of that sort of thing), Garth Brooks, and Joan Baez. Dick Van Dyke was thrilled - at 90 something to be honored - it's the caper on his career (he stated) and he loved the more intimate gathering. (Individually spaced tables on the Kennedy Center Opera Stage, looking out on an empty audience. Each could bring a few guests. Baez brought Dr. Fauci because she'd struck up a correspondence with him after painting his portrait and posting it online.)
Mother brought it up in our chats today. But she forgot about Joan Baez.
2. Mother also talked about her friends who have to go to Germany to get needed Cancer treatment. ( Read more... )
Meanwhile, church acquaintance is still drumming up funds for her expensive cancer treatments in Mexico. ( Read more... )
3. Tried to watch episode five of "The Nevers" and it didn't hold my interest. It reminds me a great deal of how I felt towards Dollhouse and Marvel Agents of Shield - I didn't like any of the characters, so didn't care. It's an odd thing about writers - I can fall in love with one of their works, but not like anything else they write. And often wonder - how they came up with the one I did like. Actually this is true of many artists - television actors, singers, bands, etc. Often I will like one thing they did - love it to the point of fannish obsession, but nothing else.
This does however happen more with writers than any other artists for some reason or other.
I don't quite know why that is?
ETA: Just found out that Claudia Black has a role in the sixth episode. And they do a big twist of sorts. I'm not sure I'll like the twist - too comic booky. But I only have two episodes left - so I might as well finish the season.
4. I had a bit too much sugar today - and my nerves are all a-tingly. ( Read more... )
5. Grey's Anatomy keeps removing characters from its roster.( Read more... )
6. Speaking of killing off characters or removing them from your roster? Mare of East Town surprised me in its fifth episode. It killed off a character that I didn't expect it to kill off. Granted these shows do, but this shocked me.
The series is filmed on location in suburban Philadelphia during the winter months - reminding me why northeastern winters can be dreary.
( filming per Wiki was on location in suburban PA subbing for Chester County and Delaware County )
I spent my childhood in Chester County. And this reminded me more of Allentown and Delaware. Not the rolling country-side where I grew up. But it is true - I was a kid in the 1970s, and Chester County was a tad more rural back then, and a lot less housing. Also we tend to romanticize the past in our heads.
But I don't remember the area being that dreary. Of course they are filming in late fall and winter, and the northeast is dreary that time of year.
Mare - is in her early 40s, has a grandchild by a dead son, and a living teenage daughter applying to colleges. She's divorced, with her mother, as portrayed by Jean Smart, living with her. Julianne Nicholson plays her best friend (I'm a fan of Nicholson, and all the female actresses in the series). Dating a college creative writing professor, and the detective who has come down to help her with the case.
There's two cases, which at first appear to be interconnected, but in reality most likely aren't. One is the missing girls case - or the case that has gone on for several years now - and Mare can't manage to solve, and is the whole reason the detective was sent to help her. The other is a murder - the case he is sent to help her with, and resolve, and they believe is potentially linked to the other case. (It's not.)
I'm finding it compelling - more than expected. It is depressing though. And not meant for the faint of heart.