tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-283370902024-03-19T01:48:39.037-07:00Divers and Sundryvarious and assorted miscellany
Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.comBlogger8116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-53769848599944324012024-03-01T02:00:00.000-08:002024-03-01T06:04:24.822-08:00Spring!Happy Meteorological Spring!<div><br></div><div>I'm still out of state with my new grandbaby, who is growing by leaps and bounds and continuing to be the pride and joy of us all 🥰 His daddy went back to work after the first month, and I'll go home after the second month. My daughter will go back to work when the baby is three months old. She put up a lot of food in the freezer in preparation for the baby's arrival, and she is a good cook. They've been so good to me during my stay here. I'll miss them sooo much! I wish we lived closer, but we're planning our summer vacation now. We'll come back then.</div><div><br></div><div>Being a granny is The Best Fun!</div><div><br></div>Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-27368730408053580232024-02-22T02:00:00.006-08:002024-02-22T02:00:00.136-08:00Hellraiser (2022)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser_%282022_film%29" target="_blank">Hellraiser</a> (Hulu) is a 2022 supernatural horror film, a reboot of the Hellraiser franchise, the eleventh installment overall, and a second adaptation of the 1986 novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, which was adapted into the 1987 film Hellraiser. It gets mostly positive reviews, and I liked it, but given a choice I'd re-watch the original.
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Some things never change. And on that depressing note, please join me at <a href="https://alteredbooklover.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">the T Stands for Tuesday blogger gathering</a>, where we'll share a drink and visit.
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*******Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-18766883308650613812024-02-15T02:00:00.006-08:002024-02-15T02:00:00.154-08:00Doctor Sleep (2019)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Sleep_%282019_film%29" target="_blank">Doctor Sleep</a> is a 2019 supernatural horror film based on the novel by Stephen King. It is a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, a man with psychic abilities and a drinking problem, who struggles with childhood trauma caused by the horrors at the Overlook Hotel. I've forgotten now where I watched it but don't see it currently streaming anywhere. That's a real shame. It's definitely worth watching. The used DVD is available at Amazon for about $3.
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<blockquote>The chemistry of the universe is, in a way, in your morning cup of coffee — from the evolution of caffeine as a defensive chemical weapon in plants to the swirling eddies of milk and coffee fueled by diffusion, Brownian motion and other phenomena. After watching the video, you’ll never look at coffee the same way again.</blockquote>
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I only drink coffee in the mornings, and I drink it black and without any sweetening. I don't usually ponder weighty matters then, spending that time catching up on news stories, social media, and email newsletters. This morning I'll try to engage a different part of my brain.
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*******Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-3072310001541363622024-02-11T02:00:00.000-08:002024-02-11T02:00:00.216-08:00North of the Rio Grande (1937)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_of_the_Rio_Grande_%281937_film%29" target="_blank">North of the Rio Grande</a> (<a href="https://tubitv.com/movies/667841/north-of-the-rio-grande" target="_blank">Tubi</a>) is a 1937 Hopalong Cassidy Western film starring William Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, and Russell Hayden. This is Lee J. Cobb's first film role and is posted today because it's the anniversary of his death.
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*******Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-5122789519563260432024-02-10T02:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T02:00:00.148-08:00An Angel at My Table (film)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Angel_at_My_Table" target="_blank">An Angel at My Table</a> (Max) is an award-winning 1990 biographical drama film directed by Jane Campion. The film is based on Janet Frame's autobiographies and and is divided into three parts. It follows Frame beginning with her years growing up in a poor family, through her years in a mental institution, and into her writing years afterwards. I tend to avoid films based on true stories, but for some reason I watched this one. It's one of those movies I wish I'd seen years earlier. That said, her life was horrifying, and this film is hard to watch. There were times I cried and some times I had to look awawy. I'm glad it ended well for her, but what it took for her to get there will break your heart.
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For Yu Hui Tseng, drinking tea isn’t simply a daily habit or a cultural norm, but a spiritual practice at the very core of her being."
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*******Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-61391681503593920802024-01-31T02:00:00.000-08:002024-01-31T02:00:00.148-08:00Children<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgSnlq74pBNUNZChlNoXZqvXT3lUR5-hZdd4JrdMyPgRMo7matqpCWwwlCp47v0Nlit1uAb8MKOQtItz4N-nZK9J5BPZJZuMbalF2OooEfUZOaVjRHoLfLrf25GsX1iNh3P1v9l0lckPh3pOmgXFuT7S3NTMVzyUASmQJHY1KGCtLgh5gfSJK/s2000/ChaplinTheGameOfLotto1865.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1665" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOgSnlq74pBNUNZChlNoXZqvXT3lUR5-hZdd4JrdMyPgRMo7matqpCWwwlCp47v0Nlit1uAb8MKOQtItz4N-nZK9J5BPZJZuMbalF2OooEfUZOaVjRHoLfLrf25GsX1iNh3P1v9l0lckPh3pOmgXFuT7S3NTMVzyUASmQJHY1KGCtLgh5gfSJK/s400/ChaplinTheGameOfLotto1865.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Game of Lotto (1865), by Charles Joshua Chaplin</td></tr></tbody></table>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_%28short_story%29" target="_blank">Children</a> is a short story by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" target="_blank">Anton Chekhov</a>, who died on this date in 1904 of tuberculosis at the age of 44. You can read this story <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anton-chekhov/short-fiction/constance-garnett/text/children" target="_blank">online at this link</a>. It begins,<blockquote>Papa and mamma and Aunt Nadya are not at home. They have gone to a christening party at the house of that old officer who rides on a little grey horse. While waiting for them to come home, Grisha, Anya, Alyosha, Sonya, and the cook’s son, Andrey, are sitting at the table in the dining room, playing at loto. To tell the truth, it is bedtime, but how can one go to sleep without hearing from mamma what the baby was like at the christening, and what they had for supper? The table, lighted by a hanging lamp, is dotted with numbers, nutshells, scraps of paper, and little bits of glass. Two cards lie in front of each player, and a heap of bits of glass for covering the numbers. In the middle of the table is a white saucer with five kopecks in it. Beside the saucer, a half-eaten apple, a pair of scissors, and a plate on which they have been told to put their nutshells. The children are playing for money. The stake is a kopeck. The rule is: if anyone cheats, he is turned out at once. There is no one in the dining room but the players, and nurse, Agafya Ivanovna, is in the kitchen, showing the cook how to cut a pattern, while their elder brother, Vasya, a schoolboy in the fifth class, is lying on the sofa in the drawing room, feeling bored.
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They are playing with zest.
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Divers and Sundryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01759655568104782267noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28337090.post-73382043614478016222024-01-29T02:00:00.001-08:002024-01-29T02:00:00.148-08:00Tumbbad<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbbad" target="_blank">Tumbbad</a> (watched <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tumbbad-Sohum-Shah/dp/B08KWMLYX8" target="_blank">on Amazon Prime</a>, no longer available there) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language folk horror film. Reviews are mostly positive. I enjoyed it. Definitely different from my usual fare. It is set in the cursed village of Tumbbad, where it always rains. Plot description from Wikipedia:<blockquote>In 1947, Vinayak Rao tells his 14-year-old son Pandurang about the Goddess of Prosperity. She is the symbol of unlimited gold (wealth) and grain (food) and the earth is her womb. When the universe was created, she gave birth to 160 million gods. Hastar, her first and most beloved offspring, was greedy for all her gold and food. Hastar managed to acquire the gold from the goddess but the other gods attacked him just as he was about to acquire her food. Then, the goddess saved him on the condition that he could never be worshipped and would be forgotten by history. For years, Hastar slumbered inside his mother's womb...</blockquote>
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What shall I do with this absurdity —<br />
O heart, O troubled heart — this caricature,<br />
Decrepit age that has been tied to me<br />
As to a dog's tail?<br />
Never had I more<br />
Excited, passionate, fantastical<br />
Imagination, nor an ear and eye<br />
That more expected the impossible —<br />
No, not in boyhood when with rod and fly,<br />
Or the humbler worm, I climbed Ben Bulben's back<br />
And had the livelong summer day to spend.<br />
It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack,<br />
Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend<br />
Until imagination, ear and eye,<br />
Can be content with argument and deal<br />
In abstract things; or be derided by<br />
A sort of battered kettle at the heel.<br /><br />
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I pace upon the battlements and stare<br />
On the foundations of a house, or where<br />
Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from the earth;<br />
And send imagination forth<br />
Under the day's declining beam, and call<br />
Images and memories<br />
From ruin or from ancient trees,<br />
For I would ask a question of them all.<br />
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The poem, described by Wikipedia as "a passionate indictment of a man wrestling with age", can be read in its entirety <a href="http://public-library.uk/ebooks/109/47.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. It was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" target="_blank">W.B. Yeats</a>, who died on this date in 1939 in France at the age of 73.
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I've shared all the snow people I have for this season, although I have a few that serve as Christmas tree decorations. Maybe I should put some of those with winter decorations so I have enough to post one a day through January. Here's Sia's song "Snowman":
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