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Some nights you just really have to make macaroni and cheese from scratch. NOM. (At least I cut the recipe in half, and I added sauteed onions in vermouth.)
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Sonofabitch, I'm going to miss this President.
Nice essay here on Why English is so weird.
The NY Times on climbing monster Alex Honnold. At one level, free-soloing can be seen as the most extreme expression of the same progression: One generation aid-climbs a route, the next climbs it in record time, the next free-climbs it, then it's time for someone to climb it without ropes. But free-soloing is so much more dangerous and frightening, even to highly experienced climbers, that a vast majority want no part of it. [This article appears to have been posted before Dean Potter's death in Yosemite.]
Noted for later:
Biographical essay on Dorothy Sayers.
The Atlantic has an appreciation of Mary Bennett.
I'm impressed by the VeteransforKaepernick hashtag on Twitter. Good stuff.
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Since I won't remember, I'll do my reading Wednesday now.
Just Finished: The Untold Tale by J. M. Frey. Billed as a meta-portal fantasy. What it was was a bog-standard portal fantasy adventure with a seriously dubious romance (dubious in the sense of dub-con) and a ton of awkward social-justice language, built around multiple two-dimensional characters. I could see a concept worth exploring there, but the execution was poor and I cannot recommend it.
Currently reading: I Capture the Castle because I'm in that kind of mood.
Next up: Probably An American Childhood.
I'm cranky the library has not yet come through with either the new Jemisin or the new Elliott. WTH, library! Gimme!
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I'm most of the way through the first season of Wynonna Earp. Cannot say it's awesome: it has not caught me the way the first season of SPN did. But one thing I can say for it is that it has multiple female characters with different personalities, who all have their own roles to play in the plot. The Earp sisters are the most important characters in the show. But I could do without the tired love triangle/competition over Wynonna, and I don't find any of the male characters appealing in the least. They're all assholes, even when they're supposed to be the good guys.
Unless the last few episodes really turn the corner, I won't be watching the next season.
OTOH, Steven Universe is making me so happy.
I may give Stranger Things a try, although really I need to watch the 2nd season of Jane the Virgin.
And courtesy of the "beebs" extension on Chrome, I can watch GBBO as it airs! Plus The Chronicles of Nadiya, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Nadiya goes to Bangladesh to visit her family and cook, and it's pretty awesome.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
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Sonofabitch, I'm going to miss this President.
Nice essay here on Why English is so weird.
The NY Times on climbing monster Alex Honnold. At one level, free-soloing can be seen as the most extreme expression of the same progression: One generation aid-climbs a route, the next climbs it in record time, the next free-climbs it, then it's time for someone to climb it without ropes. But free-soloing is so much more dangerous and frightening, even to highly experienced climbers, that a vast majority want no part of it. [This article appears to have been posted before Dean Potter's death in Yosemite.]
Noted for later:
Biographical essay on Dorothy Sayers.
The Atlantic has an appreciation of Mary Bennett.
I'm impressed by the VeteransforKaepernick hashtag on Twitter. Good stuff.
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Since I won't remember, I'll do my reading Wednesday now.
Just Finished: The Untold Tale by J. M. Frey. Billed as a meta-portal fantasy. What it was was a bog-standard portal fantasy adventure with a seriously dubious romance (dubious in the sense of dub-con) and a ton of awkward social-justice language, built around multiple two-dimensional characters. I could see a concept worth exploring there, but the execution was poor and I cannot recommend it.
Currently reading: I Capture the Castle because I'm in that kind of mood.
Next up: Probably An American Childhood.
I'm cranky the library has not yet come through with either the new Jemisin or the new Elliott. WTH, library! Gimme!
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I'm most of the way through the first season of Wynonna Earp. Cannot say it's awesome: it has not caught me the way the first season of SPN did. But one thing I can say for it is that it has multiple female characters with different personalities, who all have their own roles to play in the plot. The Earp sisters are the most important characters in the show. But I could do without the tired love triangle/competition over Wynonna, and I don't find any of the male characters appealing in the least. They're all assholes, even when they're supposed to be the good guys.
Unless the last few episodes really turn the corner, I won't be watching the next season.
OTOH, Steven Universe is making me so happy.
I may give Stranger Things a try, although really I need to watch the 2nd season of Jane the Virgin.
And courtesy of the "beebs" extension on Chrome, I can watch GBBO as it airs! Plus The Chronicles of Nadiya, which I cannot recommend highly enough. Nadiya goes to Bangladesh to visit her family and cook, and it's pretty awesome.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.