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06092025-070

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I already posted on Saturday about the 4th of July, which makes things easier for me today.

Not that a whole lot more happened over the rest of the weekend; I had no movies to see on Saturday or Sunday. I did not socialize with anyone but Shobhit, which clearly delighted him. Granted, the rest of the weekend had its ups and downs, mostly lovely, but ending last night in a huge fight. The fact that Shobhit was behaving like an irrational child kind of loses its ability to elicity any empathy for, when I reveal that I responded by behaving like a raving lunatic.

It leaves me less inclined to go for walks with him for a while, I can tell you that much. Ending on that note really soured an otherwise quite nice weekend.

For some reason I can't even remember a ton of what we did on Saturday. I had to look at my Letterboxd diary to remind myself we did watch Tropic Thunder that day, which I had not watched in ages and actually holds up pretty well. I think it would be a lot harder to make that movie today, but we kind of have even more reason for the kind of satire it features than we did in 2008. And watching it on Saturday, I laughed a lot, although I will admit that the impact isn't quite as great when you've seen it before. Even if it's been ages since you last saw it.

Just like with Sisu, which we watched on Friday, I chose the movie from Peacock, which I subscribed to for a month. We have just one more episode of season two of Poker Face, and then we'll have seen everything I re-upped that streamer for. Next will be a return to Apple TV, where there are at least three new things I want to watch.

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07042025-02

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I did go back to Steamworks on Saturday night. I was in and out of there in about an hour, which might be a record. That cost me $47 just because it was on a Saturday, but it was just the day I could go. It was even "only" that much because I got there before 6:00; weekend rates after 6 shoot up to $62.

I hooked up with two guys while I was there, which I am only mentioning because of something the second guy said to me. He said: "Do you know who I look like?"

I said: "Gene Wilder?"

"You get that a lot?" he asked. I said yes. But then he said I look like the character Lucifer from the Netflix series The Sandman.

I said that sounded familiar. I later realized I actually watched that when it came out, in 2022. As it happens, I did not realize until looking it up literally as I wrote this very paragraph that season 2 was just released, on July 3. I haven't watched it at all, of course, as I am not currently subscribing to Netflix. I'll have to put this on my list for when I next do, though.

Anyway I did look up "Lucifer" the character on this show later that evening though. I had completely forgotten that Lucifer was played by Gwendoline Christie. Ha!

I texted that to Laney and she seemed to think it was hilarious.

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Shobhit and I watched yet another movie at home yesterday. This one was on HBO; he happened to see it on the TV schedule and was intrigued by both its synopsis and my noting it was an old Coen Brothers movie (their first, in fact). We just brought it up on Max when we were ready to watch it.

This would be my third time I have it logged on Letterboxd. But, I remember seeing it once at The Egypian, eons ago—it could have been the late nineties, maybe early aughts—as part of a Coen Brothers festival they once did. So I have now seen it at minimum four times. Spread over 25 years, though, so each time I see it I can hardly remember what happens. It's very slowly paced, particularly compared to any later Coen Brothers film, but once it's done you realize how expertly it was put together. It has fantastic writing and plotting.

We also watched this week's episode of The Gilded Age on Max at 6:00. It was after that when we went out for another walk, this time up to Volunteer Park via 15th, through Volunteer Park, back toward the south via Broadway, then one block past Pine to Pike, and up to 13th and back over to Pine on the way back to our building.

It was pretty warm yesterday, something like 75° and sunny. Pretty perfect for going to Howell Park, which has the hidden nude beach Shobhit likes to go to. I was actually all for going yesterday, but Shobhit wanted to get some work done, and when that was finished it was already too late in the day, according to him—by 2:00 or so he says the sun has moved enough that the trees cast shadow over all the grassy area that could otherwise be used for sunbathing. Another day, I guess.

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07042024-05

[posted 12:33pm]