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Post by Kimby on May 29, 2023 12:55:31 GMT
And today’s. (Imagine my surprise to do so much better than K2!) Wordle 709 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 29, 2023 12:44:56 GMT
Yesterdays word: Wordle 708 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 28, 2023 3:55:05 GMT
Watched TAR over two nights (It’s a long one). Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tar, an intense orchestra conductor with a complicated personal life. (The actress who plays her partner, Nina Hoss, previously played the music instructor in The Audition.) www.imdb.com/title/tt14444726/
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Post by Kimby on May 28, 2023 3:24:02 GMT
Some “ interesting” looks here.
Lena Mahfouf‘s Versace is a tribute to J Lo’s green Versace gown that turned heads and raised eyebrows at the Oscars.
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2023 23:43:14 GMT
Bixa, if it WAS RAVEN , I wouldn’t have gotten it. I temporarily forgot that word existed!
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2023 21:13:06 GMT
Me either! Wordle 707 3/6 ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2023 14:48:58 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 27, 2023 5:08:35 GMT
On Sanibel Island FL - before the hurricane. Word is that it floated away, but will be replaced.
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2023 22:56:38 GMT
All the promos of the Barbie Movie look absolutely awful. Yet it seems to have gotten some good early reviews and it is “on our list”. So I’ll probably see it next year, if our library gets the DVD. www.imdb.com/title/tt1517268/Looking at the cast I see at least 11 Barbies and 6 Kens. WUWT?
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2023 15:33:02 GMT
Lily Gladstone, a Native American actress with Montana connections, at Cannes. I don’t like this appliquéd felt gown/robe, but it fits the Scorsese movie she starred in “Killers of the Flower Moon” and she IS standing on a red carpet…
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Post by Kimby on May 26, 2023 4:35:06 GMT
PARALLEL MOTHERS, with Penelope Cruz. Excellent movie, great performances.
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Post by Kimby on May 25, 2023 0:50:34 GMT
Mrs Cactus was lucky enough to see her live at Wembley Stadium many years ago.
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Post by Kimby on May 24, 2023 2:06:37 GMT
For me either. Wordle 703 3/6 ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 20:01:42 GMT
You got lucky with your 2nd guess, lugg! Well done!
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 13:29:50 GMT
Wordle 702 5/6 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 12:53:31 GMT
You missed your calling, K2. Instead of Forum Helper, you should be a film critic for a newspaper with wider viewership than our cozy little forum.
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 4:15:47 GMT
Tonites small screen viewing, THE MENU, starring Ralph Fiennes as a star chef gone a bit far with his innovating. A dozen or so diners are taken by boat to his exclusive dining room on a remote island for a choreographed 6-course meal. I see that Lugg saw it in January. We agree: weird, but also kind of wonderful. www.imdb.com/title/tt9764362/
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Post by Kimby on May 22, 2023 1:49:51 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2023 20:07:21 GMT
(Tamarisk is considered invasive in the American west, too. If it’s planted near waterways, it can spread like crazy, as it did in Utah’s canyons. Though it may be pretty while in flower, the thickets of sharp stiff branches are murderous for hikers.)
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Post by Kimby on May 21, 2023 12:45:56 GMT
Wordle 701 6/6 ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Barely made it. And I’m not sure what Kerouac did.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2023 14:32:05 GMT
I saw a blurb on Facebook about death and grief (a relevant topic for me lately) and it led me to OBSERVER by (scientist) Robert Lanza and (author) Nancy Kress.
It’s a novel based on the science of the multiverse. The science is pretty dense though it tries to explain really complex ideas in graspable language. The novel part is interesting enough to keep me reading.
Is it a coincidence that the Academy Award winning film we just watched - Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - is also about the multiverse?
And I recently had a dream in which my sister came back after dying three years ago and when I asked where she’d been, she said she wasn’t sure, but maybe on a parallel track…
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2023 4:11:38 GMT
Wordle 697 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2023 3:53:52 GMT
A few early wildflowers at the lake cottage. There’s still little patches of snow here and there and ice on the lake, but it’s breaking up rapidly. Pasque Flowers (aka Prairie Crocus) Buttercups
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2023 3:44:04 GMT
Two Academy Award Best Picture Nominated films this week: Runner up THE BANSHEES OF INISHERON www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/And the winner, EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE. www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/Banshees stars Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson who both also starred in In Bruges 14 years ago, both by the same director, Martin McDonaugh. A sweet, sad, funny film set 100 years ago on an island off the coast of Ireland. Everything, Everywhere won 7 Oscars including best picture and director and 3 of the 4 major acting awards. It also won for film editing, which doesn’t surprise me at all. It’s an interesting melange of martial arts and science fiction, with the metaverse taking center stage. Both well worth watching.
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Post by Kimby on May 17, 2023 15:46:19 GMT
Waiting for the ice on the lake to fully melt. It is dark colored and rotten, and free-floating, with openings between ice floes where ducks are dabbling.
I witnessed a pair of cinnamon teal mating in the water this morning. Yesterday I watched bald eagles catch fish in the small gaps in the ice. I speculate that the fish come near the surface for the oxygenated water and the eagles snag them with their talons.
Montana is (already) getting smoky air from Canadian wildfires, but it’s hard to tell smoke from the generalized low clouds and mist.
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Post by Kimby on May 17, 2023 14:48:18 GMT
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Post by Kimby on May 17, 2023 14:40:15 GMT
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN is a well-made documentary of a well-known but sadly mis-understood man. In his (first?) talkie, The Great Dictator, he made a speech that I liked very much, and so did FDR, who had him give the same speech at his inauguration. www.imdb.com/title/tt10193752/
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Post by Kimby on May 16, 2023 14:05:13 GMT
Wordle 696 4/6 🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Post by Kimby on May 16, 2023 3:15:53 GMT
Kimby, Those wild flowers are lovely. Do you ever try and spread their seeds/bulbs? I used to try to transplant wildflowers but they always died. Some have long tap roots impossible to dig out, others are just too fragile. The purple one is a Pasque Flower and they make seed heads with hairy achenes that I sometimes collect, if I can get to them before the deer do. Not having any success getting them to grow. But I’ve had better success getting Arrowleaf Balsamroot to grow from seeds I collected. (I’ll post photos when those are in bloom.)
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2023 17:27:53 GMT
Going to a runoff it looks like. I hope that’s good news.
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