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Sci Fi series mini reviews, part two

This is a continuation of last entry. I wrote it all as one entry, but it was a lot of text, so I split it up. These last two shows are new.

Stranger Things (2016)

A US show. How can I put this. I enjoyed the show, but it incited great rage in me as well. It is so Steven Spielberg that I really was trying to make “Duffer brothers” (actual creators) be an anagram of “Steven Spielberg.” Some men simply cannot seem to see women as full people.
(“But we included all the types of female,” the Duffer...

Sci-Fi series mini reviews, part one

We got Apple TV, so suddenly we have access to way more shows. I’ve written up reviews of the ones we’ve watched recently—but I’ve divided them into two entries, as it gets long. Here’s part one.

Fringe (2008–2013)

A US show. We saw all but the final two-thirds of the final (fifth) season, when the show seriously went off the rails.

I really loved this series, which starts out as sort of an updating of the X-Files concept and then goes off in its own direction. Every episode does have some stic...

cosmos

These volunteer cosmos flowers are taller than I am--they're reaching for the sky.



(comments off--it's just to evoke a smile as you go through your day)

Amazon versus the Noblebright collection

Did you preorder the Noblebright collection through Amazon? Due to Amazon’s right hand not knowing what its left is doing, the collection got delisted, and all the preorders were cancelled. Amazon accepted that it was its fault and has indicated it would send a letter to people who had preordered, but who knows when that will actually happen? Now the collection is back up, so if you did preorder and your order was canceled, you can reorder here

If you preordered through another site (Kobo, Ap...

Away for a few days

Taking care of some family business and won't have much (if any) Internet access, so I'll be scarce through Saturday. But then I'll be back to plague you!

Her Britannic Majesty

The healing angel, who longtime readers of this blog will remember as a child of 9,10, 11... is soon to embark upon new adventures. Rather than going straight to college, he's going to try to work for a bit in the land of his birth--England. To that end, he had to renew his British passport, not used since he was a baby. (He's used his American one several times since then.)

Today it arrived, and wow, the words at the front are redolent with the fragrance of Empire:

Her Britannic Majesty's Secr...

dream albums, dream wardrobes

Wakanomori was given a t-shirt when he was last in England. It came wrapped around this album cover:



I have not ever heard this album, but when I was a little kid, I know my parents had a Jethro Tull album. My parents had quite the record collection. I remember once being babysat, and the babysitter brought her boyfriend over, and they proceeded to go through the record collection. I was Discomfited.

When I got a little older, I used to like looking through the various Beatles albums: Sargent...

A planet in a bottle of water

This bottle of water comes with Saturn in it:



I wonder if other bottles have other planets. I wonder if any contain Earth. That would be freaky recursive.

"I posted about it on Facebook"

I came online in 2006, which is much more recently than some of my friends here, but definitely makes me an online veteran compared with, for example, people in my neighborhood, or my family. As those people discover Facebook, they go through a version of what I went through when I joined Livejournal, becoming totally absorbed in online conversations, to the extent that they want everyone they know to be following along with their doings through that particular medium. They'll start telling m...

radio's private conversations

We have a stool in the kitchen, and on the stool a boom box sits. We have it there for its radio. (It used to also play CDs and cassettes, but no longer). Here is an illustration.



The radio is often on--we listen to the news or to music; we have it for background noise and companionship. If the phone (which sits above the boom box on the kitchen counter) rings, I usually turn the radio off to answer, but sometimes I just turn it way down.

Then, sometimes, later, I'll become aware of the radio t...