This Is Drivel

Category: entertainment

  • Field Notes From A Catastrophe

    I’ve found I can’t help but read news stories and books about global climate change. They literally compel me to stop what I’m doing and read, I guess because the premise that we are poisoning the only planet we will ever have to live on is so obvious that I would always like to know… Read.

  • not hungry

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    We weren’t feeling very hungry when we got home last night, so we decided to watch the latest episode of Sherlock before we sat down to dinner, but while we hung up our coats and unpacked our bags we munched a little from the bowl of cashews that was sitting on the table. Cashews are… Read.

  • Elysium

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    The movie Elysium begins with a flashback. You can tell because it has the slightly out-of-focus, off-color look of an Instagram shot and the dialog sounds like you’re hearing it from the far end of a tunnel. The flashback introduces you to Max and Frey and shows you that they were childhood sweethearts. It also… Read.

  • buffering

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    We finally got a television. And so far, we’re disappointed. Mostly because it doesn’t play internet shows like we thought it would, but first things first: We ordered a new television from Amazon last week. They didn’t deliver it by drone, so there’s the first disappointment. Coming home to a drone-delivered television set would’ve been… Read.

  • earworm

    The song stuck in my head this morning is the Bobby Goldsboro version of “Watching Scotty Grow.” I loved this song when I was a kid and would crank up the volume whenever I was lucky enough to catch it on the radio. They just didn’t play it often enough for me back then. As… Read.

  • Sherlock

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    There was a gaping plot hole in the weekend’s episode of Sherlock – did you spot it? Sherlock gets a tip from a self-avowed train geek that a something fishy’s going on in London’s subway system. The train geek’s daytime job is to review the security camera recordings of subway platforms, lucky bastard, and he… Read.

  • PS3

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    We tried to watch the first episode of this season’s Downton Abbey last night using Amazon streaming video through a PS3. If that didn’t make any sense at all, here’s how that breaks down: First of all, yes, we’re fans of Downton Abbey. Roll your eyes all you want. We like it. Tim left us… Read.

  • setting up shop

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    What I did with my Sunday: Well, first I made a big, steaming pot o’ joe, same as I always do. Always. The day doesn’t start without a pot o’ joe. I don’t know if you’ve noticed that. If you have, and you’ve been wondering why your day didn’t start as early as every other… Read.

  • breaking bad

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    On the other hand, My Darling B and I binge-watched the last season of Breaking Bad this weekend, watching five episodes Friday night and finishing the rest on Saturday afternoon, and it was hugely satisfying. I can’t remember a more satisfying conclusion to a television series I’ve watched from the beginning. Not that there have… Read.

  • Side Effects

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    Side Effects was an oddly unsatisfying movie. Oddly, because it should have been, and I can’t pin down what exactly didn’t work for me. The plot seems sound. The acting was good. The movie looked great. But in the end it was just meh. Odd. OBLIGATORY SPOILER ALERT: I’m going to give away everything. I… Read.

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