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Favorite Product Mini Rave

While I was deep into one of my many searches, searches that often find me wondering, 

"what was I looking for, before being distracted a zillion times?!", 

when I stumbled across a new skincare company, Remedy. Here's the *origin story. I appreciate a company simplifying skincare rather than offering ten different products to apply. Give me the ingredients I want and need in one bottle. Be more like Remedy. 

Spring Streaming 2025

The Responder Britbox

The Residence Netflix

Towards Zero

Life on Mars Britbox

Marie Antoinette PBS

Leave No Trace Kanopy

Four Seasons 2025 Netflix

Miss Austen PBS

Blue Murder Britbox

Here

Treason

Pernille Netflix

Vanity of the Bonfires (one star) Kanopy

The Secrets We Keep Netflix

Death Valley Britbox

I, Charles Wright Britbox

Above Suspicion Britbox

Stick Apple TV

.... and a TON of baseball 😎

Tuesday at Costco

Tuesday, I stopped at Costco after volunteering with the short folk. It was time to pick up the prescriptions. After I had been to the pharmacy and picked up something from the deli for dinner, I made my way up towards the check-out area. I was surprised to see some of the longest lines I've ever witnessed at our Costco. The time of day I arrive is usually one of the calmer intervals, so I was assuming their card system went down or something similar.

Rather than analyzing all of the lines, because they were deep into the aisles, I decided to head to the line closest to the exit door, for a quicker escape. This particular aisle had two lines of carts nestled beside one another. 

One of my favorite things to observe is how different people often behave when they're at Costco. I didn't see the impatient foot tapping, crossed arms, staring at the clerks with a scrunched brow and a frowny face, that you might witness in another store. Instead, people began looking into each other's carts and making conversation. 

A young woman whispered to their mother and then took a package of chocolate-something off the shelf and put it into their cart. I made a broad sweeping gesture towards the other chocolate treats on the shelf and exclaimed, "but wait! there's more!". Then the man in front of my cart jokingly suggested it was planned for us to be stuck amongst all of the treats and then remarked on a large box on a flatbed cart. The woman with the cart replied that she had found the patio set online, but that she could save $100 if she drove to a store, "So here I am!", she added.

And about fifteen minutes later, when I had made it next in line at the register, I heard a voice behind me. When I turned around one of the employees had two flatbed carts he was trying to take through the register area. Everyone flattened themselves out of the way and then a woman who was having a communication problem asked him a question. He stopped right where he was and took the time to speak to her in her native language, before continuing along his way to take those carts back outside.

Twenty Lessons by Timothy Snyder

 

The Heron

 

Doonesbury

 

David Pepper

https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/trump-recession-is-coming

Fascism: I sometimes fear... by Michael Rosen

Fascism: I sometimes fear... by Michael Rosen:

I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you...

"It doesn't walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution.""

Michael Rosen, 2014

Winter Streaming 24-25

Acapulco -- newest season Apple TV

Shrinking -- new season Apple TV

Big Door Prize -- new season Apple TV 

The Jetty -- BritBox series

All Creatures Great and Small -- new season

Maria -- film Netflix

Fly Me to the Moon -- movie Apple TV

Virgin River -- Netflix new season

Slow Horses -- Apple TV

Wolfs -- movie Apple TV

Vengeance Most Fowl -- movie NF

Bad Sisters -- series Apple TV

Unfrosted -- movie NF

Wild Robot -- movie

Jules -- movie

Hello Tomorrow -- series Apple TV

Tree on a Hill -- series Britbox

Barbie -- movie NF

Dune 2 --  movie NF

Ripley -- series Netflix

Aftersun -- movie Kanopy

Black Doves -- series Netflix

Fences -- film Kanopy

Godless - NF

No Good Deed - NF

Behind Her Eyes -- NF

Douglas is Cancelled -- Britbox 👍

Don't Forget the Driver -- Britbox quirky and good

The Chestnut Man -- NF

No Good Deed -- NF

Douglas is Cancelled -- excellent limited series Britbox

Don't Forget the Driver -- Britbox

Prime Target -- 

Undercover --

Ludwig -- series Britbox

The Long Call -- series Britbox

The Studio -- AppleTV

Caroline Rose

 

Truth .... for those who truly seek it

 “Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”

Is equivalent to asking

“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”

*copied from the best social media - Mastodon

mxmtoon's Tiny Desk Concert

PBS: 100 Years on the Lincoln Highway

A few days ago, I began reading Amor Towles' novel, Lincoln Highway, which reminded me of how much I enjoyed their writing of A Gentleman in Moscow. And after only a hundred or so pages in, I too am curious about the history of the highway. Thanks to the character Billy. And very glad I stumbled upon PBS's 100 Years on the Lincoln Highway.