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I took myself to see Operation Finale right after work yesterday, and it was fine but I really wanted it to be better. I suspect now that the John Cho movie Searching, which I had originally been considering going to see, would have been better. I opted for Operation Finale instead because it has better actors telling a much more vital story that is actually part of history. Too bad they couldn't make it into a particularly great movie.
The showtime was at 5:35, so I opted not to go home first. I just biked directly to Pacific Place, and while I was there, I sat in a lounge chair on the third floor for about half an hour to watch half the pilot episode of the Golden Globe winning Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon. I finished the episode much later in the evening in bed before going to sleep. I liked it enough to want to keep on watching, even though I found the setup in the pilot to be ridiculously contrived and was a little uncomfortable with how totally unnecessary it was for her to show her tits when she gets drunk and goes onstage for the first time. Why did they write that in there? But, whatever -- I'm already pretty enamored with the characters and want to keep going, for now.
I actually gave a first look at two shows last night -- the other one being the first episode of the full first season of Disenchantment on Netflix, the new show by Matt Groening of The Simpsons and Futurama fame. It was . . . all right. Shobhit and I both laughed a fair amount, but I also felt like it had several stretches that went just slightly too long without much in the way of laughs. I know you can't be a laugh machine every second, but you could at least be as good as The Simpsons or Futurama. I never saw that much of Futurama though so for all I know the pilot episode of that was just as iffy? I'll give this a few more episodes of a chance too, but we'll see if I remain invested. These episodes are only half an hour, at least -- and I do like the greater creative freedom it has by not being on a conventional network. These cartoon characters can swear!
Anyway those last bits of TV watching were after I wrote my movie review after I had a veggie hot dog for dinner.
I just got back from lunch with Karen at the Six-Seven Restaurant down at the Edgewater Hotel. We shared the veggie gyro sandwich again, and talked a lot about books this time around -- because I walked rather than taking my bike today, and she was interested in the library book I brought with me, I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara. We also talked about Oslo, because the last book she read had ties to it, a sequel to another book with ties to Oslo which she read earlier this year before visiting that city with her husband. So then I got to tell her the AirBnB host I'd stayed with in Vancouver two weekends ago has been in a nine-year long-distance relationship with a woman . . . in Oslo. Small world!
Anyway, I bussed halfway and then walked halfway to work this morning, an early precursor to the approaching fall season, which many, many of us are very much looking forward to. It's not cold today exactly, but neither is it hot at all: cloudy, with a high forecast of about 67°. And in the early evening hours, a 40% chance of rain. I probably could have gotten away with biking today but I didn’t want to risk having to cycle in the rain, and even if it doesn't rain after all -- I can read this book while walking home.
Just as I did while walking back from lunch.
[posted 1:16 pm]