WTF-Beta

@Daniel said:
Bette Davis

When I think of old movies, this is what I think of!

I just finished watching Sleepless in Seattle, 1993.
I mostly knew the story but I had never actually seen it before.

It’s funny to think of that as an old movie, but the computers, the cars, the telephones… so dated now!

And I love watching movies that mostly feel contemporary but no one has a cellphone!

What “old” movies have you seen lately?

I think I’ll start it tmrw. Thanks for leaving out the spoilers, @adagiom and @kluurs !

@Bernard yep, I don't have a problem with those things.

@Daniel said:

"self-care"

i dislike this expression as well.... I think the concept is ok, but the way it's used is grating... And I read a critique a while pointing out that often, what's recommended as self-care is often not that great for the person...

@Mik said:

My SIL was friends with her at DePauw.

Interesting!

I don't read a lot of fiction in English, so this is the first time I've heard of her as an author (my mother actually shared the info about the new book with me, which is how I learned of it).

I changed my search approach and found this:

https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=69226&categoryid=5&archived=0

the audiobook edition of PARTITA by Barbara Kingsolver features classical recordings from Grammy-nominated pianist Han Chen throughout with a 6-minute recording of “Ondine” from Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la nuit” at the end of the book.

@AdagioM I'm especially curious about the music audio, but an admittedly cursory internet search revealed no specific info....

I just heard about this book, Partita by Barbara Kingsolver,
https://www.amazon.com/Partita-Novel-Barbara-Kingsolver/dp/B0GNP1MGLY/ref=mp_s_a_1_1

The main character, now middle aged, was a piano student at a music university and music apparently plays an important role in the story.

It looks like the audio book version includes music. From the Amazon page:

Featuring six new recordings of classic works by Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Edvard Grieg, Erik Satie, and Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Han Chen.

I just got the audio book, so I’ll report back once I start listening.

Head

@Steve-Miller said:

caprese sticks on his boards. Cherry tomato, a basil leaf and cheese on a stick.

Ooh, that sounds nice! A little labor intensive for some of the mid-semester events I do, but doable for a Christmas gathering.

@Bernard said:

Cheese straws are easy and inexpensive to make.

Interesting! I've never heard of those, but from what I saw googling, they look yummy!

Mundane

@Mark said:
one smallish dog and he leaves everything alone.

Probably because he can’t see what he might want to get into! J/k!

That’s an awfully cute doggie btw!

@Daniel a charcuterie board is a plate (board) with meats, cheeses, and olives laid out on it, like what you would see at a party.

@wtg oh my, that looks yummy! And so fancy!

Mr SK doesn’t like green olives, sadly. Which is too bad because I really do. He can kind of tolerate black olives (like in pasta salad), but that’s about it.

Speaking of charcuterie boards, I need to make some adjustments to the finger food I serve at parties, because it seems like it’s getting kind of repetitive.

I usually have: Cheese, crackers, olives, spinach artichoke dip, sometimes I’ll buy those pre-rolled salami+mozzarella or prosciutto+provolone …

Any suggestions for what else I could add or how I could switch it up so that it’s not too repetitive?

Great photos @adagiom !!

Japan is being impacted by this pretty severely (from what I can from this distance). Tons of sites have been taken offline to try to patch the flaws.

@mik those are adorable!

@Steve-Miller said:
fluffy idiots.

Very cute!!

I started turning ours on last week I think. If it’s below 66F it feels too cold to me. I also don't like it if it’s too hot. So it seems like I had the AC on a lot and then next day switched to heat

At night I’ve been setting the heater to 66, then turning it up when we get up to take the chill off.