Somm
A few years ago, on a flight to London (which seems as exotic as a rocket ride to the moon now) I watched the third installment in a documentary series, […]
Category Archives: Movies
“You British don’t have a monopoly on snobbery, you know.” “Well, not a monopoly. More of a controlling interest.”
It seems that all my outings last week led to me getting sick. Not with COVID, but with the bug that appears to be going round. I took most of […]
“I’ve never been so scared in my entire life. And I was in an elevator with Saddam Hussein.”
Somewhere, hither and thither, I’ve snuck in watching a few movies over the last (checks notes) eight months. Long Shot (imdb | rotten tomatoes) A Quiet Place Part II (imdb […]
“Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out by money.”
After a tough work week (though, admittedly, my vacation day on Friday was super-relaxed) we decided to watch a movie after dinner. We could have gone with something light and […]
NAS
As I type this I’m waiting for my new Synology DS220+ Network Access Storage device to set itself up. Of course I named it Illmatic. I’m excited to get all […]
Let the final phase of this bullshit year begin
I’m on vacation now, more or less. While I might work a bit more between now and 2021, I’m pretty much shut down. We obviously couldn’t go home to NS […]
Ausgang
This week saw more excursions, including our first visit to a patio — Chez Nous, to be specific. It was nice to finally sit outside, sip some cool wine, and…talk […]
Baby steps
Slowly, I am re-entering the world outside the loft. Last Saturday we walked into the east to meet a friend and drink Rorschach beers in a (very brown) Woodbine Park. […]
Fleabag
About a week ago I started binge-watching Fleabag (imdb | rotten tomatoes) again. I’d started watching it with Lindsay and then just fell off for some reason. She finished it […]
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.”
I can’t remember exactly what led us to start this, but over the past two weeks Lindsay and I watched all eight Harry Potter movies — me for the first […]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 