Zella
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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
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3 minutes ago, Ancaster said:
Sorry, and thanks for elaborating further.
When I read sentences like the actual decision on what is read and the order they come in is controlled by the state, my mind goes to what goes on in dystopian novels like Fahrenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale, 1984, Clockwork Orange, and so on.
And within context of the entire post, that parallel is clearly not the case.
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10 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said:
Also who names their kid “Cowboy”? SMH
It's actually just a nickname for him. They did call him that, but his name was James, per the book.
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53 minutes ago, Ancaster said:
I'm no government conspiracy theorist, but the idea of the state controlling what I read in a book club is alarming to say the least.
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.
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3 hours ago, GeeGolly said:
Austin is a curious one to me. Part of me thinks he agreed to dance lessons because both he and Joy want Joy to lose the rest of the baby weight.
I hope I'm wrong. She looks great.
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.
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32 minutes ago, Love2dance said:
I could not be in that book club, @Zella. I need my books to be more fun or at least uplifting. All the light we cannot see almost did me in.
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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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
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3 hours ago, debraran said:
Did Laura ever get punished in the TV show? She did lot of things and was threatened but I don't recall anything. She took off at night to do things and Charles was upset, she bothered the guy in the old house and he got upset and she did other things to people but only had to apologize. She ran away and caused them great angst over baby Charles and then made Albert miserable so he left because she didn't learn the world didn't rotate around her. She thought selling fake medicine to people was a good idea and just had to apologize. If Mary did anything wrong, even once, she was punished. If Laura did the fire in the barn, she'd be yelled and that would be it. If Mary stole the music box, she'd still be grounded. lol It's okay to steal and break something because the person you took it from isn't nice. All those speeches from Pa never took hold and lying got her another apology and Nellie getting in trouble. (I realize she was mean and Nellie should just have told Charles but then Charles would have to punish Laura) That could not happen!
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.
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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.
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6 minutes ago, Vermicious Knid said:
Oh, he finished the sequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. I have them both. If you have never heard of it, it's one of the seminal novels of science fiction that's just not well known outside the genre.
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.
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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
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44 minutes ago, crazy8s said:
If he was totally controlling and an ass about it, she would not have done it again.
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.
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4 hours ago, Blergh said:
Amazing how Charles could 'solve things' in three days time for unrelated folks but he never solved the problem of the tiny house with more people and no known chamber pots!
Charles threw himself into other people's problems as a means of avoiding confronting the chamber pot conundrum at home.😂
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2 hours ago, ozziemom said:
The Secret life of sunflowers, it’s about Johanna, sister in law of Vincent Van Gogh. It’s good but I’m having a hard time getting into it.
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!
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53 minutes ago, surfgirl said:
Doesn't this show have specific season threads or did they get lost in one of the many updates?
I think it's always just been 1 thread.
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4 hours ago, ozziemom said:
Gosh I’m having trouble with my book for book club too! It was my suggestion so I have to lead the discussion. I guess you should never pick a book you haven’t read yet……
Which book are you reading?
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37 minutes ago, bunnyface said:
I've only seen the first two seasons and a bit of the 3rd. Without giving any spoilers, can anyone tell me if we find out how all the ghosts died by the end of the series? There are still a few I don't know about. I'm looking forward to streaming them now that they are all available.
No spoilers, please! Just general info about whether we learn everything. Thanks.
Yes.
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3 hours ago, Tdoc72 said:
Not sure why they have to have a big production about hiring someone (and spending a lot of money) to help write policies or however they phrased it.
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.
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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.
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37 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:
I didn't have a problem with Dany's end and actually had been expecting it because I saw a pattern to her constant use of the threat to torch everyone,
Same. I'd been calling it since season 2.
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3 minutes ago, BradandJanet said:
She'll show up to the wedding with a brace or a big bandage and an elaborate story about a horse knocking her over her while she was carrying smiley tracts and freshly baked bread to her Amish neighbors.
This is cracking me up! 😂😂😂
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1 minute ago, Salacious Kitty said:
Well, Salvo One was fired with Kaylee's screed about what wonderful parents they have. I am sure Jill nudged her in some way to produce it.
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.
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5 minutes ago, Jynnan tonnix said:
Jill's relative silence kind of makes me feel that she is being somewhat relegated to the back burner. Her natural way of dealing with pretty much everything as far as we have seen, is to take charge and wail long and loud about satanic influences when things are not aligned with her standards.
My thinking is that somehow, something has either been said outright, or that Jill has somehow managed to come to the unaided conclusion that her interference might jeopardize Tim's courtship. Which doesn't really add up, given everything we have learned about her thus far.
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.
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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.
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Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion
in Little House On The Prairie
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.