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Little successes
Weird day. We got record-breaking rains last night from whatever of Ida hit New Jersey, and lots of flooding led to closed roads and accidents. Nobody made it to work on time, my boss eventually gave up on trying altogether, turned around and went home.
The Lessons by Cadwell Turnbull
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
Record of a Spaceborn Few is still my favorite Wayfarers novel but this was a delight to read from start to finish. If you like James White's Sector General novels, this is the closest thing I've read to one of them in ages (but way less offensively sexist). It's Chambers's first Wayfarers story ( Read more... ) -
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I'm working on a Natasha vid, which has led to me rewatching Civil War and Winter Soldier, and trying to convince myself to rewatch Ultron. Civil War makes me so angry, but a thing in particular that bugged me the most this time around is the presentation of the Sokovia Accords. "Here is the thousand page document," says Ross to the Avengers, "It's ( Read more... ) -
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cw: covid
I've had an annoying allergy thing this whole past week, the kind of thing that often hits me in the summer, though usually not this late in the summer. Itchy eyes, runny nose, scratchy throat, an overall unpleasant time. It feels like allergies and I wrote it off as allergies and resolved to suffer through it, but since we're in pandemic ( Read more... ) -
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Black Widow
I really enjoyed it! I will say that it seemed sort of like they, in typical Marvel mode, held some stuff back for a sequel, and it's not clear that there will be a Black Widow 2, so I think that's a big part of why there's been some dissatisfaction from fans about how the movie tried to tell Natasha's story.
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Last night I went into New York for Puzzled Pint, which was held outdoors in Central Park. It was my first time in NYC in a year and a half, my first time riding a train in a year and a half, my first time seeing
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My Opera Subscription
I've kept rolling over my Met subscription as dates were cancelled during the pandemic. Eventually, I figured, the Met would come back and I'd still want to have a subscription, and in the meantime letting them keep the money was a small way to support the arts.
Anyway, it's looking like there will be a fall season, and I think I will feel ( Read more... ) -
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Only Connect is back on tomorrow night!!! This entry was originally posted at https://seekingferret.dreamwidth.org/382281.html. Please comment there using OpenID. There are
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It Could Lead to Dancing by Sonia Gollance
Full disclosure, I am friends with the author. But even fuller disclosure, I am friends with the author because
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One Day at a Time Goes to See La Clemenza di Tita.
Syd: I am so excited. I read that the part of Annio is a trouser role, a male part played by an actress in men's clothing.
Elena: Really? So this opera is gender non-conforming! Like you!
Abuelita: You make everything gay. Even the opera is gay to you.
Oh, Abuelita... Elena did not need to make opera ( Read more... )