1) Taking your enjoyment however small, forcing you to take care of yourself and being prepared if you don't, plus couple goals and the kind of welcome we all wish we got.

2) Finally got to see The Eternals. I liked it, but I can see why it might not have done the usual box office, even outside of a pandemic. ( Read more... )

1) Injury solidarity and 'tis the season to gift friends.

2) I'm looking at episode 2 season 6 of The Great British Baking Show and they're talking about how hot it's going to be in the tent while the bakers are trying to make a chocolate dessert. And what catches my eye are the men with two layers of clothing including flannel on top and the fact ( Read more... )

1) When you're the sidekick and not the superhero, also a snow globe for cats and this bit from our Canadian friends just made me laugh.

2) I have not laughed so much in a while - the Disney+ shorts series Dug (the dog from Up) made Mike and me laugh so much we had to pause the stream several times. We've watched the first 3 (of 5) episodes and the ( Read more... )

1) Cats like fetch too, though you might be able to calm them in unexpected ways. Also, best not to overprepare and maybe this is how Riverdance got started.

2) We watched the new Dune last night. ( Spoilers )

1) Since I only use accounts here and at Pillowfort I didn't notice the suspiciously timed FB empire outage. But I heartily agree with this assessment of where our behavior has led us:

"a key part of the value of the internet, originally, was in its resiliency of being highly distributed, rather than centralized, and how it could continue to work ( Read more... )

1) Daschunds are definitely not desiged for a tight turning radius and cats aren't always good with kids.

2) Thanks to Petzi for these thoughts about the Sopranos. I never watched the show and know nothing about a resurgence, but this was an interesting view of what it was saying about the state of America to come. It made me curious enough ( Read more... )

1) Simultaneously entertaining and alarming your kitten, dogs making their own song, and a dog proving that confusion is clear across species. Pigs decide floods are fun, fish decide a duck is their leader, and humans and animals can heal one another. Also, a lot of us probably feel like this by day's end (Mike said it was just missing a dropped ( Read more... )

1) Family portrait and guinea pigs being zen, plus a bird and cat deciding to keep to themselves and a happy cow playing fetch (listen to the moos!)

2) Was asked by a friend what we've been watching lately and aside from Professor T and Unforgotten on PBS, it's been rather haphazard. We're seeing Penguin Town on Netflix which is a rather fun ( Read more... )

1) Connecting to others…unsuccessfully, sometimes successfully, and sometimes definitely not. Also, connecting on a national scale -- I'm rather amused by how Bradley James created his own Merlin fan video.

2) This article on mental health changes during the pandemic revealed more to me about people's behavior than their mental health.

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1) Saw Loki Episode 5. ( Read more... )