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Aug. 20th, 2023 10:09 am1. Discovered a cute little book shop on Courtyleou Road in Ditmas, Brooklyn yesterday. It's about a twenty-five to thirty minute walk, if that. (I tend to walk or take the train everywhere, as you all know, so thirty minute walks are nothing from my point of view. One of the lovely things about living in NYC is you can literally walk or take a train or a bus anywhere. You don't need a car to get anywhere in this city, at all. It's why many people don't drive or haven't bothered to learn.)
I was in the area to drop off the Talbots Return at UPS, and pick up groceries. It's small - so the collection isn't that wide, and mainly whatever they've decided to order. It has a good sci-fi collection by folks of color, and a decent non-fiction and fiction shelf. Plus a lot of indie comics, and a Batman graphic novel set, and a Catwoman volumn.
For once, I bought books in a shop. ( Read more... )
2. Been watching Dark Winds on AMC. It takes place in the 1970s, complete with the 70s cars and fashion. The 1970s had the worst cars (sorry, I despised them, you may love them. I just remember uncomfortable vinyl seats, tank volkswagons, gasguzzling Cadialliacs and Sedans. Cars didn't start to improve in design until the late 1980s and early 90s.
The show focuses on the characters of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in the Navajho Station Police Force, located on the Navajho reservation in Arizona. Robert Redford and GRR Martin are executive producers, but it is written, directed by, and stars Navajho. Since it's the 1970s, they refer to themselves as Indians.
The series is adapted from Tony Hillerman's mysteries.
3. As previously noted, finally saw Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar last night. I was surprised by it. The film is well done. I did, as in all Nolan films, struggle a bit with the gimmick.
He likes to play with time in all his films - however, I will state that the science behind time in each of them works far better than it does in other films and television series.
Interstellar, as in his other films, has a protagonist who sets out to be a hero or savior, but in reality struggles to save himself, and often needs to be saved (mainly from himself and his own ego or in one case the antagonist's. ( Read more... )
3. Making my way through the audio book - Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage County Murders and the start of the FBI - white people do not come out well in this book. (Which is hardly surprising). The murders are kind of gruesome and painful though. What happened, near as I can figure, is the Osage Tribe got rich off land that contained oil. The White People felt they should have gotten that land not the Osage Tribe and benefited from it. Also they viewed the Osage Tribe as out of control and uncivilized. (eyeroll)
4. It's a pretty day - barely a cloud in the sky. I should go frolic in it. But I also need to robot vacuum.
I was in the area to drop off the Talbots Return at UPS, and pick up groceries. It's small - so the collection isn't that wide, and mainly whatever they've decided to order. It has a good sci-fi collection by folks of color, and a decent non-fiction and fiction shelf. Plus a lot of indie comics, and a Batman graphic novel set, and a Catwoman volumn.
For once, I bought books in a shop. ( Read more... )
2. Been watching Dark Winds on AMC. It takes place in the 1970s, complete with the 70s cars and fashion. The 1970s had the worst cars (sorry, I despised them, you may love them. I just remember uncomfortable vinyl seats, tank volkswagons, gasguzzling Cadialliacs and Sedans. Cars didn't start to improve in design until the late 1980s and early 90s.
The show focuses on the characters of Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee in the Navajho Station Police Force, located on the Navajho reservation in Arizona. Robert Redford and GRR Martin are executive producers, but it is written, directed by, and stars Navajho. Since it's the 1970s, they refer to themselves as Indians.
The series is adapted from Tony Hillerman's mysteries.
3. As previously noted, finally saw Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar last night. I was surprised by it. The film is well done. I did, as in all Nolan films, struggle a bit with the gimmick.
He likes to play with time in all his films - however, I will state that the science behind time in each of them works far better than it does in other films and television series.
Interstellar, as in his other films, has a protagonist who sets out to be a hero or savior, but in reality struggles to save himself, and often needs to be saved (mainly from himself and his own ego or in one case the antagonist's. ( Read more... )
3. Making my way through the audio book - Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage County Murders and the start of the FBI - white people do not come out well in this book. (Which is hardly surprising). The murders are kind of gruesome and painful though. What happened, near as I can figure, is the Osage Tribe got rich off land that contained oil. The White People felt they should have gotten that land not the Osage Tribe and benefited from it. Also they viewed the Osage Tribe as out of control and uncivilized. (eyeroll)
4. It's a pretty day - barely a cloud in the sky. I should go frolic in it. But I also need to robot vacuum.