Sunday
Headline from nypost.com: “14-year-old whiz kid about to graduate college, already hired at SpaceX.” Feeling inadequate? Meet Kairan Quazi, Elon Musk’s newest employee, photo from Google Images:
Candidate for the most amusing headline of the day, from newsmax.com: “US Capital Sputters as Federal Workers Stay Home.” They love remote work, so DC businesses are suffering.
I’ve watched a BBC four-episode mini-series drama, The Victim (2019), broadcast on PBS. Directed by Niall MacCormick, written by Rob Williams, it’s the story of a mother who discovers that the boy who murdered her eleven-year-old son years ago may be living in her community. He is an adult using another name, and she is determined to out him. Trouble is, he denies it’s him. Set in Glasgow, it is as powerful as drama gets. Kelly Macdonald as the mom and James Harkness as the accused are outstanding. The former, born and raised in Glasgow, made her debut in Trainspotting (1994) and has since added these notable works to her canon: Elizabeth (1998), Gosford Park (2001), Finding Neverland (2004), The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Tristam Shandy (2005), No Country for Old Men (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and 56 episodes of Boardwalk Empire, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She received one for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: The Girl in the Café (2006). Harkness, also born in Glasgow, has 28 titles under his name at IMDb, including Macbeth (2015), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and The Darkest Hour (2017). Born in Scotland, MacCormick has 19 titles under his name, including an episode of the Wallander crime series starring Kenneth Branagh. Among Williams’ titles: four episodes of the fine DCI Banks crime series and five of The Man in the High Castle. He is British. Both men received a BAFTA nomination for their work on The Victim. The last five or so minutes is riveting and gut-wrenching. Here are the leads, photo from Google Images:
Headline from foxnews.com: “More than half of Protestant pastors relying on armed congregants for security: survey.” Who can blame them?
For those keeping score at home, headline from FN: “Federal deficit tops $2 trillion over last 12 months.”
It was a lot cooler than I expected today at the floating book shop. Cloud cover and a nice breeze negated any heat. My thanks to my buddy Bags, who rode up on his bike and schmoozed for a while, and to the kind folks who made purchases. Here’s what sold: Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, a biography of Edgar Allen Poe; a huge hardcover collection of Poetry; How to Write and Sell Your First Novel by Oscar Collier; Delia’s Heart by V.C.Andrews; Spy by Danielle Steel; While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark; I and Thou, philosophy from Martin Buber; Taking Back Trump’s America: Why We Lost the White House and How We’ll Win It Back by Peter Navarro; another Denise Austen exercise DVD and one on Yoga; and a film and Broadway Showstoppers CD I burned long ago. I am blessed.
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