Wisdom's Where You Find It

have i mentioned that it's CURLING SEASON? it's CURLING SEASON! only slightly more exciting than (if not as delicious as) pumpkin spice season. altho i have a psl cross stitch pattern but not a curling stone.... anyway. my team has now played three times and lost every single game. sigh. the first two we blamed on the weather - it was hot both weekends (like, it hit 80º) and the a/c in the ice shed had to work REALLY HARD to keep the ice icy - but last night i think we were just outplayed. i made some really good shots tho.

there was a localish no kings rally on saturday (also a big one in boston proper) but i, uh, didn't go. i got a very late start. >.< great day for a rally tho - sunny, warmish, appropriate for marching and chanting and holding signs and listening to speakers. my mom and her boyfriend went to a rally right near where one of her friends lives altho it was more a bunch of people standing on the sidewalk than an actual rally. friend r went to the one in boston and shared a photo of a sign with a picture of elvis on it (the only king in america) which made me think of serendipity's little speech in dogma - "so you were an artist! big deal! elvis was an artist. but that didn't stop him from joining the service in time of war. and that's why he's the king, and you're a schmuck."

(if you haven't seen dogma i highly recommend. matt damon and ben affleck when they were young and baby-faced, plus salma hayek, plus george carlin, plus the idea that god took some time off to play skeeball in new jersey.)

anyway. the other good pic i saw was of someone in memphis holding a sign that said "not a paid protestor. i hate trump for free." heh. i've seen estimates from 7m up to 10m attendance for the whole country's worth of rallies but honestly i think all anyone can say for sure is more people showed up for this one than the last one. go us.

i sat outside for a bit even tho i didn't really go anywhere and then my sister and i went out for hamburgers and saw roofman which i had kind of mixed feelings about. the main character is charming (he's played by channing tatum, of course he's charming) and sincere and his heart is in the right place and he's really smart about some things but oh my god does he make dumbshit decisions. he brings all his shit on himself. and he's a (non-violent, ok) criminal, let's not forget that. it's based on a true story and over the credits they show the real people who the movie characters were based on which i thought was pretty neat. and ben mendelsohn is in it! which i was not expecting.

(trailers for bugonia which i want to see, regretting you which i don't, the bruce springsteen biopic which i'd see, and the running man which, sure, why not.)

sunday there was a fall festival where my sister lives so we went to that. there were a lot of local booths (town organizations, that kind of thing) and a bunch for political candidates as well as your standard pottery, silver jewelry, kids' stuff kinds of booths. also, empanadas. :D it was a great day for a walk and then i went to curling where we lost. maybe next sunday will be better.

now that i've finished wayward i started dept q because i guess black doves wasn't enough and now i'm having a british tv moment. so far so good. the main character is a bit of a dick but to be fair he gets shot at the beginning of the first episode (and now has a weird client-therapist relationship with his police department mandated therapist) and to be also fair he's good at his job. he's trying to solve a cold case and i have absolutely no idea where it's going and i really like that.

happy humpday, o my flist. i hope my fellow americans enjoyed the long weekend, assuming you got indigenous people's day off. (i did. altho to be fair the u gives us a lot of random holidays.) i took advantage by a. driving all the moving boxes up to my cousin's house so she could stuff them in the back of her garage - they're my sister's boxes and since neither of us has any storage space our cousin said she'd store them for us, b. going to ikea with my sister (i need to buy some bookcases and i just wanted to see them in person) (we did not have meatballs and also the little snack counter was closed so i couldn't even get a soft serve), followed by c. dinner and a movie (one battle after another which i really liked), and finally d. sitting on my ass watching tv and doing laundry. also i met a couple of cats who live on the first floor of my building. they're very friendly and one of them is THE SOFTEST.

what i spent a chunk of monday watching was wayward, which is on netflix and is DEEPLY disturbing. DEEPLY. it's about a school for wayward kids (hence the title) and it's got some very culty vibes and is set in 2003 for some reason and did i mention that it's disturbing?

i'm also watching the lowdown with ethan hawke and am enjoying it thoroughly altho i think the plot is starting to get away from me. it's on a regular channel so there's only one episode a week so i have to WAIT. on the one hand i don't mind that i can't binge watch but at the same time i want to know what's going to happen NOW. anyway it's much less disturbing and not at all culty which is refreshing and ethan hawke is fun to watch. his character is kind of a chaos magnet - his heart's in the right place but, well, chaos follows him everywhere. that part is very entertaining.