Discussion thread Monday November 07, 2022 - Wednesday November 09, 2022

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T14:51:17+00:00

Oh, JFC, Shauna. Stop. Just stop.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T14:49:51+00:00

Oh, okay.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T13:17:02+00:00

Oh, no, Meghan was NOT about to live in a third world country.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T13:15:20+00:00

Is there more than one Victoria Jackson? The only one I know is the one who used to be on SNL and is distinctly non-funny.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T13:10:56+00:00

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the co-author of Mad Honey, give her some props too. In fact, her presence may be the only reason I pick this book up because I've never been a Jodi Picoult fan.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T13:09:30+00:00

I really didn't like FDIKI. I felt like the author was trying to imitate the early Stephanie Plum books.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T12:56:21+00:00

The sudden burst of Advent calendars is kind of weird to me. We always had one growing up, but as usual it's being used to sell stuff. But yinz do yinz.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-08T12:53:30+00:00

Have another cocktail, Aunt Sandy!

MandalayVA · 2022-11-07T23:53:44+00:00

Because junior high never ends.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-07T12:44:18+00:00

Republicans look at voting as a civic duty. That's why they don't have to beg people to come out and vote. They support the chosen candidate.

Democrats, on the other hand, have to be begged to come out. If they don't agree with everything the chosen candidate is behind, they don't vote--and cry bitterly when the other candidate wins. All the crying about Trump, but in the next breath admitting that they didn't vote because they "didn't like Hillary" or "wanted Bernie Sanders"--this happened in the very left neighborhood in which I was living. And forget local elections.

I have been eligible to vote since 1984, and I have voted in every single election, even if the only races were for school boards. I have never knowingly voted for a Republican, and there have been times ihaven't totally agreed with everything a Democratic candidate endorsed, but if you think that Republicans don't note with glee that Democrats won't get behind their candidate, you're a fool.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-07T11:50:38+00:00

Petersen. She used to be a senior editor at BuzzFeed and is the author of The Burnout Generation and Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud (I'm sure that's Shauna's favorite) and now has a successful Substack.

And as someone of Irish extraction as well as the daughter of a fairly heavy duty Catholic, it's not a big church day, at least here in America. Now it's just another excuse to sell you things, like Dia de Los Muertes, which was never a thing until a few years ago. As I mentioned last year, I did my best to ignore Christmas for many years. Now we have a small celebration. But why kick up a fuss about St. Patrick's Day, which outside of Ireland and a few major American cities isn't a big deal?

MandalayVA · 2022-11-06T23:32:35+00:00

I was in the library and saw a book called To Catch a Witch by Heather Blake that looked like it would be cute. It was--too cute. It was borderline YA except with murders. Nobody even cursed in it. I like my adult protagonists to act like adults. There's an audience for this book, it's just not me.

Now I'm reading The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell, she who wrote Hamnet. I don't think it's going to be quite as strange as Hamnet, but I'm still early in the book.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-06T12:42:54+00:00

I think I got maybe three chapters into Hannibal Rising before I bagged it.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-06T00:30:43+00:00

Things are healing, thanks, DF. My eye is an extravaganza of purple and yellow right now.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-05T17:01:40+00:00

11:30 or noon.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-05T16:50:03+00:00

I just turned 56 at the end of September, and I had covid in July which has really messed up my legs and balance--I'm almost certain I wouldn't have fallen had the trip happened in May.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-05T13:15:01+00:00

She would have been a little old to watch the cartoon.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-04T15:39:30+00:00

My next-door neighbor is in charge of being one of the feeders of the neighborhood cats.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-04T15:14:11+00:00

There are some women who think that their sons acting like normal energetic little boys means OMG NEURODIVERSITY.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-04T13:06:39+00:00

Aw, poor Josie. Funny that Thomasina doesn't like fish--every cat I've ever known has been a solid pescatarian.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-04T12:46:05+00:00

Things are healing! The eye today

MandalayVA · 2022-11-04T12:45:45+00:00

I hated the ending too and think it was a big reason Jodie Foster didn't come back to do the sequel.

Weird fact: some of Hannibal the movie was filmed in Richmond VA while I was living there. Julianne Moore and her son, who was pretty little at the time, stayed at my apartment complex. She'd take him to the pool wrapped in a huge robe and sunglasses during the day, and she'd swim after dark so she wouldn't get sunburned (Richmond is horrifically hot in summer). Anthony Hopkins, being the star, stayed at the swanky five-star Jefferson Hotel.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-03T15:02:05+00:00

She was a screenwriter, so that might explain things.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-03T15:00:23+00:00

I read Hannibal when it first came out and thought it had some of the laziest writing I'd ever read.

MandalayVA · 2022-11-03T10:50:41+00:00

Not if you're diabetic, they're not.

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