chicago no kings-

man. u might not realize how much damage the fire dept does

when they put out a fire. they punch a hole in your roof to pour water in. they tear out drywall/plaster to make sure there's no hidden fire.
they open all the windows. 1 had the blinds down and they just shredded them. and the water! was told 1000 gallons is typical. they shut off all the utilities.
clean up crew starts tomorrow. the chilly weather is a blessing. not getting mold yet. if this was july the smell wd b awful. not sure if it's worth repairing. will b expensive. i've been thinking it's time to move on, but cant stand the thought of this place being torn down.

the little no kings rally that could-

posted on fb by my great state rep-

welp, i get the award for the world's biggest dufus.

i had a fire in my house last night. pretty big 1. AAAND i have no insurance, i may just need to sell it as is.
i’m a stupid smoker. the fire fell of a cig, into a pile of clothes. now here’s where it gets rly dumb. i thought i had snuffed it out, but i didnt.
i’d had a week of shit sleep, to the point i was stupid tired. just wanted to get to bed.
was woken up at 2am by a screaming neighbor. i’m kinda in shock. i’m fine, dogs r fine, parrots even fine.
just want to get some sleep, but cant. dealing w board up and clean up ppl.
i’m staying at my 2flat, in my short term unit. 2nd flr unit is vacant atm, and will prolly stay there for a while. my biggest problem is my dogs. they hate each other and i’d been managing them upstairs dog/ downstairs dog. i cant do that in an apt.
i need to find a temporary home for 1 of them. maybe permanent if i decide to sell the house.
add to all that back pain that refuses to go away.
jesus i’m fucked.

dont buy livingston seeds.

i was just at my favorite hardware store. while i was waiting for them to cut some keys for me, i looked over the rack of seeds.
$2.99/pack. i felt them. almost nothing in the packets. 1 was for a 3 color sunflower mix, and there were 3 seeds in it. same w swiss chard mix. 1 seed per color in the mix.
🙄🙄😤

bad enough that i complained. they’ve had this co forever, but they need to switch.
out of character for them. the kind of place where u might pay a little more, but things r always high quality.

professor t on pbs.

i think this show may b the QUIRKIEST detective series ever.
prof t teaches criminology at cambridge. he’s dragged into working w the police by a former student.
he’s autistic, has ocd, a troubled childhood, and has vivid fantasies (hallucinations?) that help him recreate crimes. he wears rubber gloves, but sprays disinfectant on everything anyway. carries a hanky to open doors, ring doorbells, handle random objects, and cover any chair he sits in. he has a goldfish that he talks to, who talks back.
the rest of the cast is quite quirky, too. his mother is an outrageous painter w a chihuahua named kafka. his secretary is a busy body who terrifies most ppl.

he has an encyclopedic knowledge of personality types and mental illness. he doesnt so much find clues as hone in on who has the capacity to kill, and who doesnt.

based on a beglian series of the same name, also available.

absolutely delightful.

i'm just hoping that all this ends up

like the great chicago fire. that something magnificent arises from the ashes.
cuz b4 we’re done here, it will ALL b ashes.

young sherlock on prime.

another wonderful interpretation of conan doyle’s beloved character. i’m such a fan of every iteration i have seen, going back to watching the basil rathbone movies on family classics here in chgo.

it’s an origin story of sherlock and moriarity, who meet at oxford, where moriarity is a student on scholarship and sherlock gets a job as a scout, aka a slave to the porters. he’s a trouble maker just released from prison for pick pocketing for the fun of it. mycroft manages to get him the job.

they 1st get together to solve the mystery of stolen chinese scrolls, brought to the college by a princess. they discover that the theft is a set up for a bomb that they manage to prevent killing a bunch of profs at a meeting. and off they go.
sherlock is framed for the murder of a prof, moriarty breaks him out of prison so they can solve the crime. and i’ll stop w the spoilers there.

beautiful scenery, high production values, great cast, and a well done mystery. lots of nods to the cannon.

cant rec enough.

scarpetta on prime.

if u r a fan of particia cornwell’s kay skarpetta mysteries, definitely miss this series. u will b deeply disappointed. i read the books long ago, but this bares no resemblance to my memory.

starring nicole kidman (not rly a fan) & jamie lee curtis (huge fan, usually) as dr kay and her sister. they r living together, w their husbands, while sister dot’s home is being remodeled. they bicker constantly and pointlessly, and jlc’s cleavage is in your face for most of it. jlc is soooo obnoxious.
her niece, lucy, is grieving the loss of her wife, and has an ai version she spends all her time w. deeply creepy and sad.

it flips back and forth in time to kay’s 1st big case, and a deep secret about it. i am not a fan of flashbacks in general, but this is over the top and annoying af. there r different actors in the past.

there r plot holes, including a double murder that just drops out of the plot after showing the murder scene and a bit of the autopsy, and a suspect that just disappears.
dr kay is the victim of interoffice vendettas that she cant rly cope w.

cornwell is an executive producer on this, and i can only assume she is now senile.
a plug of the rotten tomato review came up on my fb feed, and this seems to b the general impression. i’m sure when they booked that ad they thought the reviews wd b great. they wasted their money.

anyone else watching black rabbit?

jude law and jason batemen as brothers who start a popular nyc restaurant, but seem cursed. directed by laura linney. bateman is just a fuck up, but law isnt much better.
it’s disturbing. i almost yell at the screen “dont do that, you idiot”. but they get into stuff where they have little choice.
but it’s also so compelling. i’d rec for ppl who think their siblings r a pita.