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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2024 6:20:15 GMT
I like Mindy Kaling's dress!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2024 6:08:13 GMT
It seems that white-hot fury sharpens my brain power. Must remember. Wordle 1,053 2/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 imply musty
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2024 2:48:06 GMT
It all matters. If one suffers, we must suffer with that sufferer. Today pretty much sucked anyway, and this was the cherry on top ~ Wordle 1,052 6/6* 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 anger beast snake spade shale shave
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Post by bixaorellana on May 7, 2024 1:35:10 GMT
As god is my witness, I will never touch an allen wrench again!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 6, 2024 5:21:57 GMT
Whew! I just finished watching the last episode of Ripley. It keeps up the low level but constant suspense, but in this episode expands the picture of Ripley, fleshing out how he's grown into the construct of himself, with more sophistication and with "interests". He is still the same charmingly plausible snake, with those black, black eyes that neither reflect light nor give anything back.
But one overriding feature of the last episode almost distracted me from the plot and that is the depiction of Venice. To me, it may be the most beautiful and most otherworldly place on earth, a belief to which the cinematographer also seems to subscribe. Honestly, at shot after shot I caught myself murmuring, "ohhhhhhh". True, there is no way to capture the romanticism and magic of the place without being obvious or repeating what countless others have done. So what? Watch it and be dazzled.
Just another note about Andrew Scott's note-perfect performance -- I was thinking about how his straightforward, unadorned and natural American accent adds to the character's plausibility and rather wholesome, aw-shucks aspect. Then I remembered that Scott is 100% Irish. What an actor!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 21:09:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 7:18:09 GMT
I'm sure Xi feels like the biggest lion so is just showing his power. I don't know about that. If it were so, I doubt he'd bother carrying out this kind of diplomatic visit. Macron has never ceased to press him about Ukraine & meeting him in tandem with Van Leyen would seem a pretty clear statement of France's solidarity with the rest of "free" Europe and its interests.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 6:43:49 GMT
Wordle 1,051 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 mosey bench decal
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 6:38:55 GMT
I find it fascinating how Xi Jinping is so willing to communicate with western world leaders known for their contentious stance on China, trade, and security. There has been a recent flurry of such communication with the US, but this face-to-face with Macron and von der Leyen is really putting his head in the lion's mouth.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 6:27:31 GMT
What does the blindfold on that book cover mean, Whatagain? I just looked him up on Wikipedia -- most interesting, but a complicated story. This item stood out: in August 1914, when Belgium was invaded by Germany, Leopold's father, King Albert, \allowed Leopold to enlist in the Belgian army as a private & to fight. Leopold was twelve. Htmb, I looked up A Girl Returned & it sounds quite familiar, although I have not read it. I'll keep an eye out for it. This past week I read Something to Live For, which I got back in January. It's one of those books you take a chance on even though there is the dread that it will be a cloying feel-good read with strained humor. Not at all! Luckily I didn't read any of the (positive) reviews which were so eager to include spoilers, so got to enjoy the plot as it naturally unfolded. It turned out to be a fun and worthwhile book which I recommend. I'm including the Amazon link because it has no spoilers. www.amazon.com/Something-Live-Richard-Roper-ebook/dp/B0871L3C3J/ref=sr_1_1Now I am reading Life in the Garden, by Penelope Lively & enjoying it very much, as I believe many of you gardeners here would as well. For me, it was a bit of a slog at the beginning, as Lively got a little bogged down in discussing Virginia Woolf, and then again in talking about gardens and the Impressionists. Luckily I persevered, as she moved on to the styles of gardening in the post-Victorian age and just a wonderful overview of various influential garden writers.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 5, 2024 4:53:29 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 21:15:37 GMT
You will be The Smart One today. Wordle 1,050 4/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 paste fable valve value
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 18:24:55 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 18:20:01 GMT
Those of us who love the Stones, don't care whether others do or not. THIS is what I thought was important ~~
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 16:21:37 GMT
Don't throw cold water on his achievement, Kerouac!
Not fixing a first world problem doesn't help anyone, just like cleaning your plate doesn't feed the starving elsewhere.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 16:18:09 GMT
Because you have something wrong with you?
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 16:17:12 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 1:56:42 GMT
Sometimes it just gotta be that way.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 4, 2024 1:53:58 GMT
While we await the Met Gala, here is the red carpet from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2024. Prepare yourself for People Dressing Appropriately. Well, except for Fetterman, who always looks like an asshole in that hoodie get up. Look how nice his wife looks! He couldn't put on slacks for her benefit, at least? Oh yeah -- the other exception is Coco Rocha, some species of model. She looks like Michael Jackson came back from the dead & draped himself in organza. Kelly O’Donnell gets my vote for the standout good look of the evening. deadline.com/gallery/2024-white-house-correspondents-dinner-photos-red-carpet/
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 22:29:53 GMT
This is not recent viewing, nor is it all non-series and some of the entries are movies, but ......... Some of you will be thrilled to have this information. The rest of you just avert your eyes ~~~ frockflicks.com/upcoming-frock-flicks/
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 22:26:26 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 22:24:28 GMT
Awwwwww ~~ happy happy congratulations, dearest Cheery! Love that name, too.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 22:23:01 GMT
I was accepting it as the actress's natural accent, since I didn't know where she was from. She sounds like people I know from Quebec.
But re: when European languages in the new world became different from their versions in Europe .......... I believe you can assume that any US & (probably) Canadian accent in a given language is one of the older variations of that language. People in the new world brought their ways of speaking with them and, with no mass media to keep them in tune with the old world, those versions are preserved in some fashion to this day, even as the mother tongues back in the old world evolved differently.
One obvious case would be Cajun French, which was brought to the new world by people from the rural areas of the Vendee region of western France when they began to settle in Nova Scotia in 1604.
It is said that the way people speak in Charleston, South Carolina is probably similar to how Shakespeare spoke, for instance. Some elements of US English are considered archaic in England -- calling the two in a card deck a "deuce" for one. Appalachian speech is an obvious instance of an older way of speaking English persisting into the present. I imagine anyporters from Canada could cite other examples.
Because of that, Krieg's decision to not go full-bore accent seems a solid and practical choice.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 19:52:36 GMT
I would love to see that. It looks as though Vicky Krieps alone would make it worthwhile, not to dismiss Viggo Mortensen, of course. There looks to be genuine chemistry between them in the trailer.
Is it a movie from any one country? I looked it up & got this:
Release date May 31, 2024 (United States) Countries of origin MexicoCanadaDenmark Languages EnglishSpanishFrench Also known as Hasta el fin del mundo Filming locations Durango, Mexico Production companies Talipot StudioRecorded Picture Company (RPC)Perceval Pictures
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 19:39:43 GMT
It is wonderful!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 19:37:47 GMT
Lugg, that sounds terrible and indeed very frightening. Did you have someone there to bring you tea and water and wake you up to ask if you're okay? I so hope you're on a fast track to complete recovery. Thank you for the nudge to all of us about boosters!
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 19:21:11 GMT
Great to see you back here, Lugg & hope all is well. Thanks for the recommendation & the notification of the tv show. Again, you are made of stronger stuff than I. Two things that have plagued me my whole life are insomnia and being a complete sniveling wimp about anything eerie. But I wish all you grownups joy of the novel & the show. Edited to say ~ PEE ESS: Sorry if I sounded offhand about your health & well-being. I just this moment read your post in the Covid thread. That sounds dreadful and miserable. Honestly had no idea, but fervently hope you recover completely very soon.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 16:50:40 GMT
Wordle 1,049 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 aisle perch unwed ebony I wonder if lurgy is related etymologically to logy: www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/logyMerriam-Webster says that the first known use of logy in that sense was in 1847.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 16:38:37 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 3, 2024 16:30:06 GMT
Wasn't last year when Kim Kardashian wore the Marilyn Monroe dress (from Some Like It Hot - ?) to the Met Gala and blew out the seams with her big butt?
Don't say I'm not up on culture!
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