The Cheese Stands Alone

 Su 5/17/26 705am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 710am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 735am (6-B: Green Crack). 955am (3-B: Green Crack). 1250pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 355pm (3-B: Green Crack). 540pm (6-B: Cat Piss). 835am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  Up 555am: Mostly sunny & windy with temps to mid 80's.  Weekly Cleaning Watched 'KARTAVYA' (Netflix). This was a film where you had to know something of the culture to understand what & why events unfolded as they did. It went over my head. A cop is upset that a teenage boy was forced to murder a female journalist. The kid was part of a cult and the swami wanted the woman dead.  Also, villagers are trying to kill his brother and his betrothed because they are marrying out of their respective castes. The cop ends up killing all of his enemies (no thoughts of guilt or being caught?) and the film ends on a high note. Mystified...Filmed in Western Uttar Pradesh of India which is located in the north central part of the country ...

 Sa 5/16/26 705am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 710am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 805pm (5-B: Green Crack). 955am (4-B: Green Crack). 1250pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 305pm (4-B: Green Crack). 430pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 530pm (5-B:  Cat Piss). 835pm (GB: 6/ Green Crack).  Up 610am: Morning showers, then cloudy with temps to 80.  Watched 'THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH' (Kanopy). While walking home late at night a young woman is doused with gasoline, set on fire and dies a horrible death. She had many questionable male friends yet her killer was never caught. It's similar to the story of a retired cop remembering the single case that he could never forget. At the end credits: "This film is a work of fiction based on real events". From 'LITTLE WHITE LIES'- "It’s a satisfying film, even though it lacks closure. Nothing is unnecessary or over the top – so Moll doesn’t push the boat out". "81" Metascore and I would go to "86". Filmed ...

 Fr 5/15/26 645am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 650am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 730am (4-B: Green Crack). 955am (4-B: Green Crack). 1225pm (GB: 6/Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: 6/Cat Piss). 830pm (GB: 6/ Green Crack).  Up 540am: Rain showers early, then partly sunny & breezy with temps 80. Watched 'NEXT SOHEE' (Hoopla). Nearly half the movie concerns a young girl working in a call center performing a job that she hates. She commits suicide and the last hundred minutes of the film are about a female detective discovering and then exposing gross workplace violations. Many suicides were reported and nothing was done. Schools had students perform temp-work and receive college credit. The company paid slave wages and withheld incentives and it was clearly a toxic environment... "Getting yelled at for a living" by customers and management. I really liked this film and scenes of her training at the call center brought back memories of being a telephone operator.  Wa...

 Th 5/14/26- Mowed Lawn 650am (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 740am (4-B: Green Crack). 9am (5-B: Green Crack). 410pm (GB: 5/ Cat Piss). 535pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 830pm (GB: 6/ Green Crack).  Up 550am: Bright & sunny with temps to mid 70's.  ***Goddammit, a fucking prompt to 'restart' right as I was preparing to begin the film. Completed in under three minutes and now I get a list of what is to be done. The last couple of updates have targeted the 'drivers' and I wish them well. {Later in the afternoon I read an online article saying that Microsoft will require more 'restarts' this month. They're making some big changes to Windows 11 and Windows 10 will be dropped in October}.   Watched 'THOSE WHO REMAINED' (Amazon Prime). A strange film about a teenage girl and her lonely gynecologist. Set in Hungary in 1948, the country is now under the control of the Soviets and the people are suffering various traumas and deprivations from the end of the war. Both the ...

 We 5/13/26 640am (GB: 5/ Cat Piss; the one-hitter works fine with a tiny nugget, but it is a dicey hassle). 645am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 735am (5-B: Green Crack). 930am (4-B: Green Crack). 1140am (3-B: Green Crack). 1255pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 240pm (4-B: Green Crack). 435pm (GB: 5/Green Crack). 535pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 830pm (GB: 6/ Green Crack). Up 530am: Bright & breezy with temps to about 70.  Watched 'MY DEAREST SENORITA' (Netflix). Adela (A.D.) saved $6,000,000 Spanish pesetas which is about $40,000 usd. Filmed in Pamplona, Spain. 'Intersex' is an umbrella term describing people born with physical sex traits that don't fit typical biological male or female definitions. One point seven (1.7%) of the world population is born with intersex traits, making it about as common as having red hair. The movie is upbeat and shows that intersex can be a synthesis of the best of masculine and feminine characteristics...if you work at it.   So...

 Tu 5/12/26 645am {1/2 'Extreme Chill' 150 mg: 75 mg total}. 645am (GB: 6-B: Green Crack). 720am (6-B: Green Crack). 910am (4-B: Green Crack). 1015am (4-B: Green Crack). 1240pm (GB: 7/ Cat Piss). 540pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss). 830pm (GB: 6/ Cat Piss).  Up 6am: Mostly sunny and breezy (Wind & Dust Advisory In Effect) and temps to low 80's. Watched 'THE GUNMAN' (Netflix). A mercenary working for a multinational in the Congo is contracted to assassinate their minister of mining. He must leave the continent, but years later, while in retirement, he realizes that someone is trying to kill him and it's somehow tied to the Congo operation. Kind of hokey, but somewhat worth a look; with Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, Jasmine Trinca, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance. "39" Metascore and I would go to "73".   Finished 'UNCHOSEN' (Netflix). The young woman and her daughter leave the cult and the silver-tongued devil becomes the new 'head pasto...