Television and...Twitter has a bizarre meltdown
1. Considering seeing "Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny" sometime in the next four days. (Taking Monday and Wednesday off. Just have to clean out my fridge and do laundry somewhere in there. Also Wales is making noises about taking a day trip somewhere by car. I won't see the movie with Wales, for two reasons - 1)it's not her type of movie, and 2) she can't handle loud movies, TAR gave her issues. She's not a person I want to see movies with - she can't sit still.)
2. Finished The Diplomat on Netflix. Highly recommend. It's just eight episodes. Excellent cast. And ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger. Also a witty sexy political thriller. It's a workplace drama - which is my favorite, with all of the conflict stemming from the workplace. The lead characters are career diplomats. And I love everyone in the show. (Rare thing that.) It's been renewed for a second season.
Now on to the Night Agent.
3. The Bear S2 is available on Hulu now. I watched the first four episodes of S2. It's excellent. I think my favorite character is the pastry chef in Amsterdam. It's a lot of fast dialogue and banter in various scenes. The better scenes are the ones that focus on just one character. I like all of them, and they all have interesting and complex arcs. Also, it like the Diplomat are my favorite type of drama - the workplace drama. I love workplace dramas.
4. Somebody Somewhere S2 - is available on HBO - which I've caught the first two episodes of. It's a semi-autiobiography of comedienne, alt-cabret, and actress Bridget Everett's upbringing in Manhattan, Kansas. And basically goes in the direction - of what if she'd not moved to NYC and become a stand-up comedienne and actress, and instead moved to Lawrence, Kansas and become a bartender before moving back home to Manhattan, Kansas to take care of her ailing sister. The story picks up after her sister has died. The comedy subverts expectations in that her friends are homosexual and transgender, and the show depicts very little to no homophobic interactions. Drag King Murray Hill plays transgender Frank, a professor of agriculture at Kansas State University. But the main relationship in the series is between Sam Pire (Bridgette Everett) and Joel (her gay best friend), and it is both charming and deeply moving.
It's a relationship dramedy, without any romance. Which is a rarity nowadays.
5. Having digestive issues again. Also, I think I must have pinched a nerve in my neck since I have pain from my left shoulder all the way down to the fingers of my left hand. Feels a little better after icing it for a bit, and putting heat on it. (Probably need to stay off my cell phone - that may be the cause - too much time on Twitter, FB and playing Redecor?) OR it's just tension. Don't know.
But at least I managed to switch out my spring clothes for my summer clothes, and put the ones I'm not wearing any longer in bags to take down to the basement. I take stuff down there - and it goes away.
6. Did I tell you my niece is having a blast playing Park Ranger in Sequoia National Park? She's enjoying her job - which consists of telling people to put out their campfires, and chasing bears out of camp sites. The nearest town is two hours down the mountain. She did get sick for a bit - and had to go down to an urgent care to get antibiotics.
7. I'm almost done with "Moonlighting - an Oral History" - we're in the third season, and things are not going at all well. ( Read more... )
8. Twitter is having a bizarre meltdown after EM started temporarily limiting their tweets to 800 or something. I think people on Twitter have an abusive relationship with well Twitter.
[ETA: found it -
( Read more... )
I don't understand it. But I've never understood how that app worked.]
IDK. I'm not experiencing it at all. But I'm not on it that often.
There are folks going to Blue Sky, but it only has invites. Spoutible, Mastodone. I signed up for both Spoutible and Mastodone. But I can't find anyone that I was following on Twitter. Also not sure I care? I have more interaction and better interactions here and on FB, frankly.
What's interesting is how many lonely disconnected folks there are out there - whose only connection with people is Twitter.
2. Finished The Diplomat on Netflix. Highly recommend. It's just eight episodes. Excellent cast. And ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger. Also a witty sexy political thriller. It's a workplace drama - which is my favorite, with all of the conflict stemming from the workplace. The lead characters are career diplomats. And I love everyone in the show. (Rare thing that.) It's been renewed for a second season.
Now on to the Night Agent.
3. The Bear S2 is available on Hulu now. I watched the first four episodes of S2. It's excellent. I think my favorite character is the pastry chef in Amsterdam. It's a lot of fast dialogue and banter in various scenes. The better scenes are the ones that focus on just one character. I like all of them, and they all have interesting and complex arcs. Also, it like the Diplomat are my favorite type of drama - the workplace drama. I love workplace dramas.
4. Somebody Somewhere S2 - is available on HBO - which I've caught the first two episodes of. It's a semi-autiobiography of comedienne, alt-cabret, and actress Bridget Everett's upbringing in Manhattan, Kansas. And basically goes in the direction - of what if she'd not moved to NYC and become a stand-up comedienne and actress, and instead moved to Lawrence, Kansas and become a bartender before moving back home to Manhattan, Kansas to take care of her ailing sister. The story picks up after her sister has died. The comedy subverts expectations in that her friends are homosexual and transgender, and the show depicts very little to no homophobic interactions. Drag King Murray Hill plays transgender Frank, a professor of agriculture at Kansas State University. But the main relationship in the series is between Sam Pire (Bridgette Everett) and Joel (her gay best friend), and it is both charming and deeply moving.
It's a relationship dramedy, without any romance. Which is a rarity nowadays.
5. Having digestive issues again. Also, I think I must have pinched a nerve in my neck since I have pain from my left shoulder all the way down to the fingers of my left hand. Feels a little better after icing it for a bit, and putting heat on it. (Probably need to stay off my cell phone - that may be the cause - too much time on Twitter, FB and playing Redecor?) OR it's just tension. Don't know.
But at least I managed to switch out my spring clothes for my summer clothes, and put the ones I'm not wearing any longer in bags to take down to the basement. I take stuff down there - and it goes away.
6. Did I tell you my niece is having a blast playing Park Ranger in Sequoia National Park? She's enjoying her job - which consists of telling people to put out their campfires, and chasing bears out of camp sites. The nearest town is two hours down the mountain. She did get sick for a bit - and had to go down to an urgent care to get antibiotics.
7. I'm almost done with "Moonlighting - an Oral History" - we're in the third season, and things are not going at all well. ( Read more... )
8. Twitter is having a bizarre meltdown after EM started temporarily limiting their tweets to 800 or something. I think people on Twitter have an abusive relationship with well Twitter.
[ETA: found it -
( Read more... )
I don't understand it. But I've never understood how that app worked.]
IDK. I'm not experiencing it at all. But I'm not on it that often.
There are folks going to Blue Sky, but it only has invites. Spoutible, Mastodone. I signed up for both Spoutible and Mastodone. But I can't find anyone that I was following on Twitter. Also not sure I care? I have more interaction and better interactions here and on FB, frankly.
What's interesting is how many lonely disconnected folks there are out there - whose only connection with people is Twitter.