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What can I say about the last 24 hours? Not much. And that's fine!
Should I just post this as all I say in this entry? That would be bold. In a way I would not be able to handle. I have to tell you what TV I watched last night, don't I?
Shobhit and I binged the back half—three episodes—of the new Netflix spy series
Black Doves. I watched it on a podcast recommendation, because it was compared to Apple TV's
Slow Horses. Except, let me tell you: this show is no
Slow Horses.
I still enjoyed it. Admittedly, in large part because Ben Wishaw is one of the most beautiful men alive. He's been high in that ranking for nearly two decades now, which is an astonishing feat. He's 44 years old now and still almost unbearably beautiful. If you want to see a movie with lots of gay sex and him wearing a sheer red bathrobe that perfectly frames his sexy little ass, watch the 2023 movie
Passages. If you want to see him in a phenomenal and criminally underseen TV performance, watch the 2022 limites series
This Is Going To Heart. If you want to just be soothed by the sounds of his deliciously warm voice, watch him voice the title character in all of the
Paddington movies. This man can do it all. I haven't even mentioned how goegrous he is as the tech wiz "Q" in all the Daniel Craig James Bond movies. Oh wait, I just did.
Luckily for all of us, Ben Wishaw is as talented an actor as he is gorgeous. The scripts for
Black Doves are serviceable at best, but his performance—along with those of just about everyone else in the show—makes it easier to get and stay hooked. Kiera Knightly is also great in it. I'm gay though so I can't really comment on how beautiful she is. Okay, she's objectively beautiful. I have no real handle on whether anyone would reasonably consider her "hot." I'm too busy drooling over Ben Wishaw.
I would still recommend
Slow Horses ten times over
Black Doves, even though Gary Oldman is slimy and disgusting in that show. Which is part of his charm! Also,
Slow Horses has infinitely better production values, whereas
Black Doves often looks like something made for TV fifteen or twenty years ago. Every single one of the many scenes set inside a car being driven by someone is so obviously shot in a studio with a screen behind them—not a single bump in the road to be detected—I found it very distracting. That was my least favorite part of the show. But again, I loved the cast.
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We ate the last of the potato paneer dish we've been burning through for a week, for dinner. Shobhit made parathas from scratch to have with it and it was delicious. Shobhit commented that the potato paneer dish needed salt, and in an extremely rare moment, I thought he was right. Then the salt I added to my bowl was way too much. Dammit!
After we finished three hours of
Black Doves, we deliberated o whether to go for a walk or go to PCC. I have several flyers of four coupons we can use in four different one-week periods, and we are currently in the middle of the second week: $20 off $40. In the end we went to PCC Greenlake Village, only to discover that the Source Natutrals "Wellness" capsules I wanted were out of stock. They only had the tablets. Fuck the tablets! Those are too big. I want the plastic-coated capsules.
But, I still managed to get a new bottle of witch hazel and one ZuZu Luxe liquid eyeliner and a 6pk of Zevia soda so I could meet that $40 minimum for the coupon. Plus, we bought a cookie, which we split and ate in the courtyard of the building complex that PCC is in. This way Shobhit could get a Social Review point. We "went out for dessert."
This is a ridiculously obvious cheat, I know. I never give him a point for just going shopping or running errands. But if we stop somewhere for dinner or dessert, I do. We stopped to eat that cookie for like five minutes, but I'm throwing him a bone anyway.
We also used that cookie to make a second transaction, so I could use two more of the six free Deep Indian Kitchen naan pizza coupons I had left that a broker sent me. Limit one per transaction, though. I already had four of my own favorite flavor at home (eggplant) so we got two flavors Shobhit wanted. These coupons expire December 31 so I need to get more in the next couple of weeks, but we'll have to eat some of the ones we have first. I'm out of space in the freezer.
We went on to Greenlake Aurora, thinking I could get the color liquid eyeliner I really wanted there—Greenlake Village only carries four colors, only one of which did I need. We discovered Greenlake Aurora removed the liquid eyeliners completely! What the shit? That was always the store I could go to reliably to find all the colors I needed!
They did have the Wellness capsules, though. We just got that and three more 6pks of Zevia Soda and we met the minimum for another coupon.
Shobhit had asked me to drive. I drove us back home and it was around 10:15 when we got there. We hadn't even left until about 9:00. I thought we could be out and back within an hour. Shows what I know! I'm kind of tired today.
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[posted 12:40 pm]
