Needs to change the name of The Woolgathering to The Dust Gathering.Apparently fat mamas can generate about as many comments as any post ever...lucky for me since I've had nothing of substance to comment on recently. I guess I could throw in a few media nuggets...
Via Netflix Watch Now I've ...wait for it...watched a couple episodes of a show called Dexter. It is/was on Showtime and is the story of a good serial killer. Basically a kid with a unhealthy thirst for blood is taught to focus his urges on the least savory among us, especially people who seem to get away with murder. This puts him in a Interview with the Vampire mode as I recall it. Lestat in his early New Orleans days fed on unsavories. Such is it with Dexter. Ironically he works for the Miami Police Department during the day as a forensics examiner, exposing him to all sorts of bloody crime scenes, with which he has a creepy affinity. So far so good. Not remotely like your normal TV watching. Dexter is creepy mostly, but you're forced to develop an affinity for him as he pretty much narrates the whole thing and understands very well his own shortcomings.
As for reading, I just added another Bill Bryson book to my growing list, this one his original Lost Continent. After living in England for almost 20 years he returns to the US and spends a couple months driving all over looking for the perfect town. Of course he never finds it, and it probably never existed, but along the way (and following in the tire treads of Travels With Charlie) he experiences a lot of small town America, warts and all. It's more cynical and mean-spirited than his later travelogues, like Walk in the Woods, Neither Here Nor There, or In a Sunburned Country, but still hilariously funny through much of it. I've recommended before, and I'll do it here again, but read The Short History of Nearly Everything. The best science writing, ever. Hilarious, illuminating, spectacular.
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I've heard about Dexter, but have never had the motivation to see it yet. Now that Netflix does unlimited streaming, it's probably a good time to catch it.
Indeed.
Since Sarah is going to Orlando for a computer tech conference, she put a couple of my movies up to the top of our list. When I say my movies, I mean the ones that she has no interest ever seeing. For example, I have an old B movie about a yeti and an old black and white Dracula.
The Abominable Snowman and Nosferatu are the two movies I have coming next week. These are good man home alone with children movies in my opinion.
p.s. The children will not be viewing these movies.
Nosferatu is available for streaming...now for free.
Nosferatu among the many "Dracula" movies I've either already watched or have put in my queue over the past couple of years. Better than the Bela Legosi "Dracula," and the Dracula actor, Max Shrek (?), is a truly frightening guy. But don't expect to be quaking in your boots all that much. This is a silent film from - what - 1929? Much has been learned in the time since then about what trips our scary trigger. It is interesting more as a historical study of how folks used to try to scare people in movies.
Does Sarah not let you adjust the queue yourself?
Dexter - sounds unique & interesting.
Must, MUST get around to "Short History of Almost Everything" one of these days. Alas, my reading pace is so far behind yours & Stephen's as to be laughable.
I can't get streaming on my school laptop because I don't have the operating system required. Sarah's does however, but I really don't like to mess with her school computer. She has everything from her school on it as well as her masters work.
I can arrange the queue if I so desire, but I generally let her arrange movies that we see together. We can have three at a time so I see the ones that I want to see whenever.
T. Clog: Cheri and I have separate queues in Netflix under one subscription. It keeps the phrase "Who picked this piece of crap?" limited to very rare occasions.
I just get the roll of the eyes every now and again. It's cool. Sarah did ask me yesterday, "What in the world is Land of the Lost?" I said, "Exactly, it's deep within the Earth." I then explained that it was a old television show from the early 70's. I use to watch it when I was a young lad.
I like it when she asks me about my odd selections.
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