Updates...on shower among other things..
Jun. 26th, 2023 08:01 pm1. After spending most of the day trying not to worry about my shower - I must have checked my text messages multiple times - I came home to discover that they had fixed it!
This was after I put a notification on the list next to the super's door, and coming with various workarounds. Begging Wales. Using my sink. Filling up a pot with cool water and using the hot water mixed with it to bath.
I came home, went to the bathroom - and discovered someone had been working in the shower - and that the faucet was completely fixed. Whoopee! I was very relieved.
One of the many benefits of renting - is having someone else fix things like this - and pay for it. I don't have to. It's included in the rent.
It's actually cheaper to rent than own in New York City. I don't know about elsewhere.
2. Chidi was telling me to see the movie "Past Lives" - IDK, it's a movie with subtitles - I find those easier to watch on television. The only movie I really want to see is Oppenheimer. But I'm not certain when it comes out.
Not until July 21.
I like Christopher Nolan films. And I adore Cillian Murphy, the rest of the cast is nothing to sneeze at.
My difficulty is I no longer enjoy movie theaters. I enjoy watching movies and being immersed in a film. I also like seeing them with other people. But..in most movie theaters I can barely see the screen. People play with their cell phones. And the seats aren't comfortable (not in the city at any rate), and you have to get reserved seats. I may have to investigate movie theaters in Manhattan.
I may need to buy a new television set soon.
3. Twitter...ah..Twitter...
* Appparently you can grow a penis, who knew?
Poster: I would not click on and read this if it was literally the last content on earth..
"ProPublica
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New: How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured. https://propublica.org/article/penis-"
ABT: Same would literally rather watch paint dry.
[I do a double take. Okay, 1) why would you want to grow a penis? and 2) why would it leave men desperate and disfigured? and 3) do we want to know. And 4) I didn't know you could do that? Also, apparently they've never watched paint dry (I have), this sounds more amusing. And if you didn't want to bring attention to it - or read it, why did you retweet it so everyone else can see it?)
Twitter continues to prove that people are nutty, in case we didn't already know this.
* Why RFK JR feels the need to show off his chest on Twitter.
The other thing - that Twitter had on it? An insane number of pictures of Robert F. Kennedy Jr doing shirtless pushups, lifting weights, and showing off his big chest. He's 69. I don't know why he felt the need to post these pictures. I'm not going to vote for a body-builder on steroids for a lot of reasons. Even if he was in his forties, I wouldn't vote for him. And haven't. Body-builder's aren't the brightest cogs on the planet, and aren't appealing to me on a good day. Promoting that is only going to motivate me vote against you (not that I required much motivation - RFK is a nitwit who drank the fascist koolaid), not the other way around. One of our best President's was confined to a wheelchair, he was clever - diabolically clever, but clever. How great your body looks is not what gets you elected, if it was, we'd have had different Presidents.
* Tech billionaires challenge each other to a cage fight
I don't know if you've heard this yet? But apparently Mark Z (FB) and Elon M (Twitter) have challenged each other to a cage fight. This was before we found out the Proud Boys and Proud Nation were fighting each other. Hmmm, maybe they will all kill each other for us, and we can just eat popcorn and watch anything else? Can we convince the Doofus, Kennedy, and Putin to fight each other in a cage fight? The Modern version of Gladiators...watching cage fighting between nitwit billionairs.
* Women don't get obsessed by historical events like men do, according to Joyce Carol Oats - much to the annoyance of well most of Twitter
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, Joyce Carol Oates kept posting about how only men got obsessed with historical events like the Titantic, and women got obsessed with music, dance, gardening, fashion, reading, and well men. A lot of women on Twitter, myself included, told her to speak for herself. Quite a few Phd's and Professional female historians were offended. To which she replied - that she wasn't talking about professional historians but people who got scarily obsessed about historical events. Apparently Joyce Carol Oats has never spent much time on a History discussion board - or the Hamiliton fandom.
I think JCO is trying to figure out people's Titantic Obsession. I've got news for her - it's not gender specific. Men just are nuttier about taking extreme risks than women are, that's all.
4. On a book front...
* Making my way through the Crimes of Marian Hayes, which is better than expected. It's about a Duchess who discovered that her husband is a bigamous, and shoots him, while really intending on robbing him. He may die (it's unclear), meanwhile her blackmailer - is blackmailing her to stop her husband from making his mother's marriage legitimate and making him the legal heir. He doesn't care if someone else becomes a Duke, he just doesn't want to be one, being perfectly happy being a Highway Man, and well, he doesn't believe there should be any Dukes.
Both characters are smart and sardonic.
* Trying to Listen to an oral history of Moonlighting - but the narrator is grating on my nerves. And it is a bit too glowing of Moonlighting. It's clearly meant to be a fan peice and not an actual depiction of how the show was made. Disappointing. Also, I wanted more gossip.
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This was after I put a notification on the list next to the super's door, and coming with various workarounds. Begging Wales. Using my sink. Filling up a pot with cool water and using the hot water mixed with it to bath.
I came home, went to the bathroom - and discovered someone had been working in the shower - and that the faucet was completely fixed. Whoopee! I was very relieved.
One of the many benefits of renting - is having someone else fix things like this - and pay for it. I don't have to. It's included in the rent.
It's actually cheaper to rent than own in New York City. I don't know about elsewhere.
2. Chidi was telling me to see the movie "Past Lives" - IDK, it's a movie with subtitles - I find those easier to watch on television. The only movie I really want to see is Oppenheimer. But I'm not certain when it comes out.
Not until July 21.
I like Christopher Nolan films. And I adore Cillian Murphy, the rest of the cast is nothing to sneeze at.
My difficulty is I no longer enjoy movie theaters. I enjoy watching movies and being immersed in a film. I also like seeing them with other people. But..in most movie theaters I can barely see the screen. People play with their cell phones. And the seats aren't comfortable (not in the city at any rate), and you have to get reserved seats. I may have to investigate movie theaters in Manhattan.
I may need to buy a new television set soon.
3. Twitter...ah..Twitter...
* Appparently you can grow a penis, who knew?
Poster: I would not click on and read this if it was literally the last content on earth..
"ProPublica
propublica·
14h
New: How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured. https://propublica.org/article/penis-"
ABT: Same would literally rather watch paint dry.
[I do a double take. Okay, 1) why would you want to grow a penis? and 2) why would it leave men desperate and disfigured? and 3) do we want to know. And 4) I didn't know you could do that? Also, apparently they've never watched paint dry (I have), this sounds more amusing. And if you didn't want to bring attention to it - or read it, why did you retweet it so everyone else can see it?)
Twitter continues to prove that people are nutty, in case we didn't already know this.
* Why RFK JR feels the need to show off his chest on Twitter.
The other thing - that Twitter had on it? An insane number of pictures of Robert F. Kennedy Jr doing shirtless pushups, lifting weights, and showing off his big chest. He's 69. I don't know why he felt the need to post these pictures. I'm not going to vote for a body-builder on steroids for a lot of reasons. Even if he was in his forties, I wouldn't vote for him. And haven't. Body-builder's aren't the brightest cogs on the planet, and aren't appealing to me on a good day. Promoting that is only going to motivate me vote against you (not that I required much motivation - RFK is a nitwit who drank the fascist koolaid), not the other way around. One of our best President's was confined to a wheelchair, he was clever - diabolically clever, but clever. How great your body looks is not what gets you elected, if it was, we'd have had different Presidents.
* Tech billionaires challenge each other to a cage fight
I don't know if you've heard this yet? But apparently Mark Z (FB) and Elon M (Twitter) have challenged each other to a cage fight. This was before we found out the Proud Boys and Proud Nation were fighting each other. Hmmm, maybe they will all kill each other for us, and we can just eat popcorn and watch anything else? Can we convince the Doofus, Kennedy, and Putin to fight each other in a cage fight? The Modern version of Gladiators...watching cage fighting between nitwit billionairs.
* Women don't get obsessed by historical events like men do, according to Joyce Carol Oats - much to the annoyance of well most of Twitter
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, Joyce Carol Oates kept posting about how only men got obsessed with historical events like the Titantic, and women got obsessed with music, dance, gardening, fashion, reading, and well men. A lot of women on Twitter, myself included, told her to speak for herself. Quite a few Phd's and Professional female historians were offended. To which she replied - that she wasn't talking about professional historians but people who got scarily obsessed about historical events. Apparently Joyce Carol Oats has never spent much time on a History discussion board - or the Hamiliton fandom.
I think JCO is trying to figure out people's Titantic Obsession. I've got news for her - it's not gender specific. Men just are nuttier about taking extreme risks than women are, that's all.
4. On a book front...
* Making my way through the Crimes of Marian Hayes, which is better than expected. It's about a Duchess who discovered that her husband is a bigamous, and shoots him, while really intending on robbing him. He may die (it's unclear), meanwhile her blackmailer - is blackmailing her to stop her husband from making his mother's marriage legitimate and making him the legal heir. He doesn't care if someone else becomes a Duke, he just doesn't want to be one, being perfectly happy being a Highway Man, and well, he doesn't believe there should be any Dukes.
Both characters are smart and sardonic.
* Trying to Listen to an oral history of Moonlighting - but the narrator is grating on my nerves. And it is a bit too glowing of Moonlighting. It's clearly meant to be a fan peice and not an actual depiction of how the show was made. Disappointing. Also, I wanted more gossip.
( Read more... )