Friday, March 15, 2024
Ship of Fools
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Cooking with Blobby
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
12 of 12
So I'm doing my 167th 12 of 12.
Normally it is 12 pictures taken on the 12th of the month. Since I only post once per day, you get my images the following day. All pictures taken with my iPhone. Click images to enlarge, if you choose.
Created by Chad Darnell and picked up from, what I can tell, any number of random bloggers who then link back to him and vice versa. Chad is no longer doing this, nor is successor coordinating the linking of other 12 of 12'ers anymore.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
It's Over
Mike's "witty" comments in his selections aside, he wasn't even around for the first half of Oscar night because he was at an actual Oscar party - and I quote - "have been asked to play piano for a "friend" (ok, I added those quotation marks) who is singing one number."
There may have been an audible groan by me at the thought of someone in P-Town speak-"singing" "What Was I Made For", because you just know that was the "number". ....and that Mike was tinkling the ivories (not a water sports/pachyderm euphemism.....probably) is just precious. And I just know he volunteered more than he was "asked".
Wow - there are a lot of quotation marks above. All perfectly cromulent.
Maybe it was due to the time change, but I assumed this thing started at 20:00 as it usually does. It did not. So we missed Jimmy Kimmel's monologue which is usually good, but who knows. I suppose YouTube does. And we missed an award or two, nothing the internet couldn't catch me up on.
The show? Blah. It seemed so forced, even more so than usual. And really? A standing ovation for the stars of Twins???? I'd get it if both of them were dying. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be.
Due to Mike's piano recital, he was virtually non-existent in our normal texting back-and-forth for the first half of the show.When he did arrive, it was fun. Maybe that's the sweet spot: miss the first 30 minutes of the broadcast and only chat for half of it.
As we went into this, Mike and I diverged in our selections by 11, which is a lot for us....and the same as last year (I just checked). And like last year, Mike won by one.
It seems I still let emotion and not logic dictate two choices (more really, but some of those paid off. I was very correct about the best actress........thank you!) - director and song. Had I just picked one correctly, it would have been a tie. I stepped up with the animated stuff; he with the screenplays. There was only one category were we both picked incorrectly.
But from the accounting firm of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe, here are the official results from the 13th Annual Academy Award Guessing Games®
Best Picture - both wonMonday, March 11, 2024
My Music Monday
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Guess Again
I haven't done an official count over the years, but I'm feeling that Mike has bested me at this more than I him. It irked me because usually I saw more of the movies than he. This might not be the case this year. That dude sat through Scorseses 3+ hr movie. Even I wouldn't do that for a win.
I have a hunch that Mike's husband sees most of the movies, or fully through, and fills Mike in afterwards. Though I do know we all saw Maestro and we all know how that turned out {shudder!}
We "planned" to see more of the movies o the list, but it just didn't happen. At least not before this telecast. Woulda. Coulda. Shoulda.
We don't call it a "guessing game" for nothing. Here we go:
Best Actress in a Leading Role Annette Bening – Nyad Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall Carey Mulligan – Maestro Emma Stone – Poor Things
Saturday, March 09, 2024
Rockin' Chair
Friday, March 08, 2024
App of the Month
I'm an easy mark. Cleary.
Strands is the name.
It is about connecting adjoining letters - in most directions - to form words. Well, words that are four letters and higher.
BUT - there is an unknown theme to each day and you gots to figger it out.
On the plus side, you don't get dinged for guessing words that are not in the theme. Actually, do enough words that don't fit and you can have a 'hint'. Until yesterday, I hadn't used the 'hint' button, but I was struggling. Finding LOTS of words, just not the right ones. And I also needed to try it out for this post. Win-Win?
Thursday, March 07, 2024
Cooking with Blobby
Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Nada
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Odd Couple
Monday, March 04, 2024
My Music Monday
Sunday, March 03, 2024
Past Life
We finally saw Past Lives this weekend. It's been on the short list for a while and we finally found the time
It's an American production with at least a Korean-American female lead, Greta Lee (whom I adore). I'm not sure i the male lead is fully Korean or not.
Much of the film is spoken in Korean, so there are subtitles.
It is something of a love triangle story. The simple premise is two friends are separated by immigration and reunite 24 years later, though she has married. He comes to visit.
Early in the movie, the now married couple speak of In-Yung and it's carried out throughout the movie to a degree.
It is a Korean belief of providence which is specifically between two people and every person who meets or even sit in the bench together has some In-Yun between them from their past lives. When the In-Yun is layered 8000 times the two people are destined to be married/or is to live happily ever after.
I found the movie to be well made and decently acted. For all it's early praise, I see why it got a best picture nod but not anything for acting. It's good, but not over the top good.
If' you're looking for Dune 2 or a Fast the Furious movie, this isn't for you.
2024 Movie Count / Goal: 04 of 15
Saturday, March 02, 2024
the Lake
Part of me commends him on trying to become Shep's friend.