The Crooked Castle
Two movies, a party, malaise, a poker game, and the first Bristol outing of the year.
“The BFG” is beautiful, kind of charming, and REALLY boring. The pacing is both soporific and bad, and no effort has been made of give anyone over the age of eight anything to connect to.
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Random bits from Facebook:
June 29:
Today was going to be a perfect day to row the perimeter of Geneva Lake: Clear, not too hot, with little wind, and on a weekday so no horrible crowds. I got everything together yesterday evening, went to bed early, got up early, loaded the car… And the car wouldn’t start. I pulled down the canoe and called for a tow. I have been looking forward to this for over a year, and having to abort the plan at this late stage HURTS. There will be other days, it will happen, but… GRRR.
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Apropos of nothing in particular:
I took four years of honors lab sciences in high school, and a year of honors chemistry, with labs, in college. I invariably did very well on the exams, and often lost a letter grade for the poor quality of my labs. I wish once, in all of that time (and we might as well add the lab courses from middle school to this), an instructor had bothered to tell us what the point of the labs was, because I was too hostile and paranoid to figure it out for myself. Continue reading
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