Reading and Roaming
A LAZY WEEK We escaped the heat after Portland and are now happily settled mid coast on Southport Island. I have to confess that we have been somewhat lazy this week. Not in terms of projects, though. I’ve re-discovered Zentangle and have been having fun creating one tile each day, while the Chief Penguin is keeping up with politics and …
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MOVIE TIME: A PSYCHIATRIST IN CRISIS A Private Life (Cary Theater) Having discovered the delights of our local movie theater, the Chief Penguin and I walked downtown again. This time to see Jodie Foster in A Private Life. A French film in French with subtitles and a few snatches of English, it’s a little bit of everything: murder mystery, love …
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ON SCREEN: BIG CONTENDER FOR MULTIPLE OSCARS Marty Supreme In past years, the Chief Penguin and I have made it a goal to see as many of the Best Picture Oscar nominations as possible. More recently, we’ve been slackers, but we might see a few of them between now and the March awards. We are fans …
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RECENT VIEWING A Logger’s Life in the West: Train Dreams (Netflix) Train Dreams is a quiet serious film set in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century and based on a novella by Denis Johnson. Logging was at its peak, and trains were the fastest means of transportation across great distances. Robert Grainier is a logger, a dreamer, and …
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