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Okay, there's one other way I sometimes wind up going back to work on captions of photos I took recently: when I use them in my Daily Lunch Update (DLU) posts. For instance, all three of today's photos were taken at the MOCO Museum in Amsterdam. And, as I try to do with photos used in DLU posts, I went back to make sure they had captions. In this case, I identified the name of the piece and the artist in all three cases:
Amy Jade Winehouse (2023),
The London Police.
Grin Reaper (2005),
Bansky.
Man’s Best Friend Chair (2019),
Campana Brothers and
KAWS.
(And in all three cases I added: Taken at
Moco Museum Amsterdam.)
The thing is, whether it's
street art or in a museum, whenever possible I like to credit both the artist and the name of the work in my photos. I just don't necessarily have time to do them all if, say, I just walked through a museum and took a bunch of photos of pieces.
All that said, I did create and fill up a photo album yesterday for the Netherlands / Belgium slide show I plan to share with Alexia when she comes over on Labor Day. At present it has 93 shots in it, and a good 19 of those are actually video clips, which will be a lot easier to share in a slide show rather than only being able to link to them in email travelogues. I have also added new, detailed captions to a couple of them, just so I'll have the needed information handy that I might otherwise have forgotten when I'm actually clicking through the slide show. Alexia has already said she's excited for this, and I am too. I did do my best to tailor it to photos she'll be more interested in; there's not a whole lot of shots from the Canal Pride Parade, for instance. (I threw in a couple; one a video clip of impressively choreographed dancers on one of the boats.)
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As for yesterday, I took myself to see
The Dog Stars, which I had long ago originally planned to see with Laney because she loved the book. But, she continues to recover from her nerve and back issues; I haven't even seen her since I had Happy Hour with her and Jessica and Mike, on July 12. I'm considering a brief trip to visit with her in Bremerton soon, though. Anyway, I texted her last night that she can be grateful she didn't see it; the movie is really not good. It's not terrible, but some of it is mystifyingly inexplicable, and there is at least one wild tonal shift. And it's not even from the book, so it's just as well that Laney doesn't get her memory of it tainted by this subpar movie.
I rode my bike home, wrote the review, and then wound up watching this new Prime Video original movie with Shobhit called
The Last Sunrise. It was boring as hell, but for the whole reason Shobhit watched: the unbearably hot, 26-year-old Spanish male lead with the sexiest Catalan accent imaginable,
Fernando Lindez. We get to see him naked a couple of times—more times, in fact, than the one topless shot of the female lead. (It's worth noting that that woman's character's mom is played by Eva Longoria, with her own quasi-love interest who is the male lead's dad, 48-year-old Spanish actor
Andrés Velencoso, who is pretty fucking hot in his own right.)
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I just had my biweekly Zoom lunch with Karen. Not a whole lot for me to report on that; we spent a good majority of the hour with me telling her about my weekend with Jennifer and her family last weekend. But! Karen had only ever heard of the Queen Mary Tea Room but knew that it was on a hill, which made her hesitant about using her van ramp with her wheelchair. I suggested she just park on the street around the corner where it would be more level, and she said she hadn't thought of that. And after I showed her several of
my pictures of the place, she was probably more convinced than ever that she should look into booking a time to go there. She got pretty excited when I told her that Mary decks the place out for Christmas, though it's possible there's another theme of decor in the fall before then; she contemplated going for her birthday, which is on October 26 (when she'll turn 68).
The other exciting thing was something she shared: she and Anita were inivted by a friend of a friend to get a tour of the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago, without even having booked tickets! I was floored, that's beyond exciting. And they'll go there the very weekend that Shobhit and I are in Albuquerque, so Karen and I will have a
ton to share with each other during our next lunch after that—which will be at the end of the very week that weekend is the start of. So this was an unusually joyful and exciting call. they're always nice, mind you, but this one had more exciting stuff to talk about than usual.
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