Why are you so tangled, hiding from the day?
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spatch took a picture of me on the platform of Sullivan Station. That is the Orange Line behind me. I think I look pretty good for a person who coughed so hard after a movie they ended up sitting on the floor. I feel like Kennedy of the Free Press.
We ate dinner at Ganko Ittetsu Ramen in Coolidge Corner—I had the gankara miso ramen again, Rob the gantetsu shoyu. I am absolutely not out of the stage of illness and/or winter where soup looks like the best food in the world to me. There was a forty-five minute wait, so we visited the basement of the Brookline Booksmith and left with copies of Tom Swift and His Electronic Retroscope (1959) and a tie-in prequel novel to Tomorrowland (2015), which cost the grand total of a buck so if it's as disappointing as its movie, I don't have to feel bad about it. The rest of the fiction I was interested in was out of my price range at present.
I am glad to have seen Stan & Ollie (2018). It is a gentle but not negligible film; it underplays, so that moments that could easily have bellyflopped into sentiment instead feel poignant, or bittersweet, or warm, and it has a good sense of cross-talk and round-robin, which it needs since the combination of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and Lucille Hardy and Ida Laurel (Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly and Shirley Henderson and Nina Arianda) is "two double-acts for the price of one" according to the boys' British manager, although I found myself thinking of it more like a sedoretu. It is very funny in all the right places, which include the stairs at a railway station, two different front desks, and dress-circle seats at the Albert Hall. It's nice to watch a narrative ultimately about people being tender with one another. Add to the list of movies I would like to talk more about when I can think again.
We got home afterward on remarkably non-obstreperous public transit, which was nice because I was as previously described coughing my face off. And since I still am, I am going to take some drugs and go to bed.
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Thank you! I really did. It's a movie full of people doing things really well, which are just always a pleasure to watch.
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Thank you!
One of my superpowers appears to be looking much better than I feel, which I feel honestly works against me at this point, but it makes for nice photos.
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I did! Stan & Ollie was worth going out for. I was saying to
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The ramen sounds like something I want RIGHT NOW, and the film sounds satisfyingly well done.
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Thank you! There is a level on which I am having difficulty taking this cold seriously, not because it's not preventing me from doing a bunch of things I would like to be doing, but because it is so comprehensively wiping me out and apparently the only thing I can do about it is drink a patent medicine.
I got a nice winter sunset on that train, at least: bronze knife-light, skyscraper windows reflecting clouds. I love this city so much. I never expected to.
The ramen sounds like something I want RIGHT NOW, and the film sounds satisfyingly well done.
I recommend it if it comes through theaters or streaming services near you and I hope ramen is equally accessible to you!
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Thank you!