2015 — 26 July: Sunday
One sometimes wonders — well, I do — quite why a grapefruit1 evolved to taste the way it does :-)
My central heating...
... has kicked in. And it's raining out there at the moment. Glorious summer. Last night's entertainment — found on Asda's discount shelves recently, and picked as an experiment — will not be playing on my plasma again any time soon. "Return to Sender" is a nasty story, wrapped in a skilful piece of film-making. It reminded me of "Misery" (which, despite William Goldman's script, I never finished watching, and expunged from my LaserDisc collection).
Much as I enjoyed...
... this film, I don't think I could sit through a script reading of it:
A few subtle differences did emerge between the original script and the version everyone knows and loves; at one point the Dude lets a sheriff know that Jackie Treehorn "treats women like objects", rather than Bridges' improv zinger (that he "treats objects like women"). Yet by and large it was the Coens' words which emerged as the real star of the show, despite some highly luminous competition. Though, of course, that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Nor do I respond well to "wackaging", despite having only just learned its name:
"We use cookies (not the yummy ones!) to make our website easy + fun" — would have to be yet more vomit-inducing if invoked by a bank that was recently fined £1.53bn for a foreign exchange rate scam. Because our daddies say that this particular way of stealing from your clients is not what the dudes at Ben & Jerry's (owned by Unilever) would call a yummy "progressive value"!
I'm now sailing...
... with Aubrey and Maturin through "Post Captain" — book #2 of this superb series, published in 1972 (and first read 30 years ago):
"I may be gone a while."
In between...
... fictional naval battles, meals, cups of tea, inspecting NZ niece #1's new house plans, and plenty of good music as the weather slowly improves, I've also been doing a lot of sifting through ancient emails. Though quite how it can now be after 18:00 is a bit of a puzzle.