Category: play
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In Bloom
Eka and Natia are 14-year-old girls in Soviet Georgia during the 1990s rebellion there. That’s it. That’s what the film In Bloom is about, and it’s as drab and awful as it sounds. Old women fight with the girls over a loaf of bread. The girls find a moment of happiness in an afternoon get-together… Read.
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bonus day
The first films of the Wisconsin Film Festival will be shown tonight. We’ll see two of them, then we’re both off all day tomorrow, as well as all of next week, to attend the rest of the festival. In all, we’ll spend almost sixty hours in the dark watching 28 films. My Darling B took… Read.
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The West Wing
Been watching the first season of The West Wing not for the first time; re-watching just for fun and have only now come to the realization that it’s a comedy. The show sorta grinds to a halt whenever they try to get all serious about gummint. Bradley Whitford wasn’t the coolest dude on the show, no matter… Read.
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The Hunger Games
I finally caved in and watched The Hunger Games last night, and even after sleeping on it I have to wonder what all the fuss was about. Was it satisfying for fans of the book? I kind of doubt it. Fans of the book are usually all ate up about details that screenwriters thoughtlessly cut… Read.
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Wilbur
I cribbed the grain bill for this latest batch of beer from the menu of Next Door Brewing, a brew they call Wilbur because of the oats they add to the mash. My Darling B says it’s her favorite of all the beers they brew, so I’m going to see if I can make some… Read.
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Rear Window
Not that you asked, but I lied before when I said we weren’t going to do a damn thing on Sunday. I’m going to pause here in order to note that my Kindle asked me if I wanted to add the world “damn” to it’s vocabulary. First, yes. Second, I’m shocked, just shocked to find out that Kindles… Read.
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knobs
The awesome power in these little wooden knobs is hard to overstate. Honestly. I wouldn’t bullshit you about something as serious as that. Or about the fact that I wouldn’t bullshit you. Which is bullshit, and I’m sure you know it. Hmmm. Kind of wandered just a little bit. Didn’t take long, either, did it?… Read.
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The War
I spend a big part of last week stretched out in the front-room recliner, a box of Kleenex close at hand, watching the hell out of Netflix as I was trying, and failing, to fight off a head cold. After days of playing with it I ought to be a Netflix expert by now, but… Read.
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tickets
My Darling B, poised & ready to buy tickets to the Wisconsin Film Festival on the first day they were available. You would not believe how anxious she was … Read.
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solder
My soldering iron gave up the ghost yesterday and, as it turns out, it’s just about impossible to find a good soldering iron within walking distance of my house, in spite of the fact that there’s a Menard’s and a Radio Shack so close by that I could just about spit on them from where… Read.
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