Another Week
Assorted items I have encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, books, websites, products, recipes, whatever.
Another Week: Number 62
Two new recliners, some poke and walleye. Little by little, I’m sorting things out. Plus: ‘May December’ (2023), and ‘Priscilla’ (2023).
Another Week: Number 61
Emails, photos, contact lists, calendars, credit accounts, closets, drawers, socks, spice jars, shampoos, lotions … plus ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (2023) and ‘Nyad’ (2023).
Another Week: Number 60
Super Bowl LVIII, chicken pot pie, Valentine’s Day, Kansas City mass shooting, Alexei Navalny, Fani Willis hearing, ‘Past Lives’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 59
Walking is a metaphor. Moving forward trains you to move forward. 66th Grammy Awards, Immediate Family (2023), Apple Vision Pro review at The Verge.
Another Week: Number 58
I am the ghost who haunts this house; Ross MacDonald — Brightwood Press, American Experience: Nazi Town, USA; Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974)
Another Week: Number 57
Amy has vanished. The ever-tightening restraints have snapped. And a Jackie DeShannon hit is now an Instacart commercial.
Another Week: Number 56
She was reminding me. She was reassuring me. I will never forget it.
Another Week: Number 55
A ‘newer normal’ every day as Amy says she’s dying. ‘Lake of the Shining Arrow: A History of Brown’s Lake,’ by Carol DeMarco, ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’ (2016)
Another Week: Number 54
A Mobile Stairlift gets Amy to her surgical procedure, ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ (2021), ‘Lessons in Chemistry,’ ‘Fargo,’ Season 5
Another Week: Number 53
Finishing out 2023 in our living room, ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ (2022), ‘Gary Gulman: Born on Third Base’
Another Week: Number 52
Amy’s oncologist is afraid she might be going, ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool,’ ‘Maestro’ (2023), ‘Like a Rolling Stone: The Life & Times of Ben Fong-Torres’ (2022)
Another Week: Number 51
Rose-colored glasses on and off, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (2022), ‘The Fablemans’ (2022), ‘Barbie’ (2023), ‘American Symphony’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 50
Amy too weak on Wednesday after Monday chemo, ‘The Thing About Pam’(2022), ‘Hard Knocks: In Season With the Miami Dolphins,’ ‘The Year the Earth Changed’ (2021)