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proximoceptionFree days are continuing to be assassinated - by weather last week, this week by cleaning for houseguests, next week the actual houseguests then by grading etc. But getting the two I did was enough to restore my patience.
(There's ways to chop up evening time such that people get things done, but you need cooperation for that. Hard to describe how difficult even the tiniest negotiation can be.)
The houseguests are coming to see Niagara Falls, chiefly, which in even non-vortical Februaries is the center of a permanent, omnidirectional ice storm extending a half mile. Not pleasant. And they're from Virginia.
Stuck with one or two tv episodes a day in the meantime, media-wise. We were enthralled by the first True Detective episode, though the second regressed a bit into HBO-show cliches. We snickered our way through Downton Abbey 2. Strange how consistently great production values are these days even on terribly written shows. You'd think tv writing would have enough of a craft basis that scripts could also be made consistently, I dunno, workmanlike at least? We tried The Good Wife, which was that in its way, but merely that, which probably answers my question - a beautifully shot house, no matter how predictable, is still beautiful. Scripts not so much.
(There's ways to chop up evening time such that people get things done, but you need cooperation for that. Hard to describe how difficult even the tiniest negotiation can be.)
The houseguests are coming to see Niagara Falls, chiefly, which in even non-vortical Februaries is the center of a permanent, omnidirectional ice storm extending a half mile. Not pleasant. And they're from Virginia.
Stuck with one or two tv episodes a day in the meantime, media-wise. We were enthralled by the first True Detective episode, though the second regressed a bit into HBO-show cliches. We snickered our way through Downton Abbey 2. Strange how consistently great production values are these days even on terribly written shows. You'd think tv writing would have enough of a craft basis that scripts could also be made consistently, I dunno, workmanlike at least? We tried The Good Wife, which was that in its way, but merely that, which probably answers my question - a beautifully shot house, no matter how predictable, is still beautiful. Scripts not so much.
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