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I think it makes sense within the context of the real Pa apparently making a lot of poor financial decisions, to the point he wasn't above fleeing in the middle of the night to avoid paying debts. It would have been an interesting facet to explore of Pa being a beloved husband and father by his family but, as to quote my Granny, "unable to manage a setting hen." I don't think Landon was interested in depicting that, though, because it would have made him less of an idol. So, we get the consequences of his bad decisions while skirting around the causes.

I thought this was an interesting interview with Jason Isbell, who played Ernest and Mollie's brother-in-law Bill, and some of the behind-the-scenes stuff is interesting. https://www.gq.com/story/jason-isbell-just-another-actor-with-a-night-job I found it especially amusing that the dialect coach told him that because of his naturally heavy Alabama accent, he didn't have any notes for Isbell and he could just talk the way he normally did. But then de Niro was apparently standoffish with Isbell for a few days because he thought he was method-speaking to get into character until he realized Isbell really does just sound like that. LOL

And within context of the entire post, that parallel is clearly not the case.

It's actually just a nickname for him. They did call him that, but his name was James, per the book.

I'm not following your interpretation. It's a book club system administered by the state's library system that libraries can opt-in to. It's not mandatory to participate, and it's hardly the only access to reading these people have. If you are part of it, you get to rank your preferences for future books, but you are the mercy of them handling logistics of or dozens of other library-affiliated book clubs. They're not censoring what people are reading, but you're warned up front that new books in high demand are not guaranteed until they have some age on them and that you are at the mercy of other people returning their books to the system in time for them to come to your group. It can be amusingly inconvenient at times, as my anecdote illustrated, but it's hardly Orwellian or sinister. In fact, it actually is a wonderful resource for small, poor libraries that may not be able to regularly afford buying a dozen copies of relatively new literary-ish fiction a month for their book club.

I have such a hard time seeing him agreeing to the dancing lessons to begin with, given how sullen he's been over over things. Sadly, I could see this reasoning checking out.

I think they're more strategic with what they select now to ensure it's a wider variety that's coming, regardless of how the state schedules it. They've not complained about it in a while. I wondered if the state had multiple book clubs ready to revolt. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The book club at my library is ultimately administered by the state library system, so the book club attendees get to select titles they find interesting, but the actual decision on what is read and the order they come in is controlled by the state. I don't attend, but I work when they meet and I always like eavesdropping on their meetings. They had one run where it was months of the world's most depressing WWII novels on end. They were all ready to crack. LOL

I've never gotten over her shouting at the old guy in Gold Country while she is trespassing on HIS property. I never could like her after that, though several other later episodes considerably lowered my opinion. What an insufferable brat.

I mean, there's a pretty big difference between an actual trained vet being filmed doing procedures they already know how to do and actors who are most decidedly not professional vets either doing procedures, as was done in the original show, which is not fair to the animals or the actors, or the logistics of those actors, who are again not vets, filming fake procedures.

I've never read it, but my undergrad sociology professor referenced it a lot. In point of fact, I have no memory whatsoever 15 years later of the point he was making every time he talked about it, but I do remember how much he obviously enjoyed the book. LOL He was a really nice guy, and his palpable enthusiasm always made me want to read it, though sci fi isn't usually my thing.

Hope your power comes back on soon, Jyn! Mine was out on and off for 6 hours yesterday. We had a little winter precipitation but heavy gusts of wind. I assumed a line was down, but I ended up talking to a dispatch guy for the utility company about halfway through and he told me it was something in one of the substations. I was reminded of what a small town I live in when the dispatch guy told me the name of the person who lives nearest the substation, and I knew exactly where they were working. LOLOL

Maybe but not conclusively. I definitely know of some marriage dynamics where one party is a complete ass about things like this and the other party would push buttons intentionally out of spite. I don't know that that is their dynamic, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Charles threw himself into other people's problems as a means of avoiding confronting the chamber pot conundrum at home.😂

I've not heard of that one. I started reading a bio of Van Gogh years ago and had to give it up because it was so depressing. I read a lot of really grim material, but even I have limits!

I think it's always just been 1 thread.

Which book are you reading?

Yes.

Per the article, they've already been accused of mishandling multiple sexual abuse cases. That seems to provide a pretty strong incentive of the cover your ass variety.

I could be wrong, and Google is of no use to me for this, but I'm pretty sure the guy known as Santa from the trial was Anna's uncle.

Same. I'd been calling it since season 2.

This is cracking me up! 😂😂😂

Yeah I'm sure she's rallying the troops, such as they are. I'm guessing the pressure just firmly pushes him in his future in-laws' arms.

It wouldn't surprise me if she's furious he seems more in with that family now, and she's tried to sabotage it only to get ignored. If so, I can see her silently fuming while the hamster wheel in her head furiously spins and plots her next move.

I've decided to still keep my Prime membership (mainly for shipping--I rarely watch stuff on there now), though I may reevaluate that in the future. I did cancel my Hulu and Netflix subscriptions, though. I rarely use either of them and mainly just kept subscribing on the off-chance I wanted to watch something and that never happened, and that $25.59 a month adds up (to $307.08 a year). I was forced to do so much math today, but it did help confirm that I needed to do this. LOL.