The Cheese Stands Alone

Su 10/18/26- Flu & COVID  shots 810am (GB: Green Crack). 1220pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 540pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 645am: Sunny & breezy with temps to mid 60's.  Weekly Cleaning ***I made an online appointment for flu and COVID shots today at 330pm with the Walgreens at Monroe and Lawrence.  Watched 'WETIKO' (Kanopy). A young man in the Yucatan Peninsula works in his mother's pet shop and his task is to deliver a couple of toads to a religious ceremony that is to convene deep in the jungle. Shamans need the 'milk' of the toads to deliver 'the true' psychedelic experience of the ancient Mayan gods. It's kind of an 'art film' by default because I think that the filmmakers bit off a little more than they could chew, but an 'B-plus' for the effort. Filmed in the Yucatan Peninsula which is in extreme southern Mexico adjacent to Guatemala and Belize. The director, Kerry Mondragon, filmed the thriller on...

 Sa 10/17/26 740am (GB: Green Crack). 1225pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 220pm (4-B: Maui Wowie). 430pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 650am {restless night}. Bright & sunny with temps only to upper 50's. The heat is 'ON' and kicked on today for the first time this season.  Watched 'TELL THEM YOU LOVE ME' (Hoopla). Facilitated Communication- Supported typing or spelling to communicate. The 'supporter' is unconsciously (?) doing the communicating. The theory completely collapses in a double-blind test; ex. When the disabled person is shown a picture of a cup and the facilitator is shown a key, the disabled person will always type 'key'. Anna Stublefield was sentenced to 12 years and got out in less than 2 years on appeal. Since none of their typed 'communications' were allowed in the first trial she won a retrial and the sentence was reduced on a lesser charge.  840am; I noticed a prompt for a ...

 Fr 10/16/26- Credit Card Fraud Knotts Berry 825am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 930am (3-B: Maui Wowie). 130pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 4/ Maui Wowie).  Up 730am: Cloudy and blustery with 20 mph winds and temps only to mid 50's. A slight chance of afternoon showers. Fall Is Here.  Watched 'THE SECRET AGENT' (Kanopy- 4 tickets; 2 hrs. 40").  Most of the film is set in 1977 and deals with the head of a research facility who tries to stop a corrupt takeover of his facility and is murdered by a team of very scruffy assassins. The film is dramatically different from a 'spy thriller' and although there are some horrific scenes violence, its aim is more to demonstrate how memory (and reality) can be manipulated by authoritarian rulers. The man is driving his VW Bug to Recife, Brazil which is a coastal city in the northeastern part of the country. "91" Metascore and nothing lower than a "78" and I'd leave it at a sol...

 Th 10/15/26 830am (6-B: Green Crack). 920am (5-B: Green Crack). 1155am (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 430pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 530pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 830pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 730am: A light drizzle/mist through noon with the threat of storms all day with temps to mid 70's. {Very little actual rain}  Windows Update: A while back the painter next door removed the windows along the front of the house and for the past week he's been painstakingly repainting the horizontal and vertical strips of wood. Unless he's working for free, it would be much cheaper to replace the windows....wouldn't it? Watched 'THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM' (Netflix). About what you'd expect and Bourne is still trying to uncover his true identity and the nature of his mission. And, of course, he runs into a hot & capable young woman to point the way. The clandestine government agencies chase him while he outwits them with many vehicle chases and violent hand to hand fisticuffs to hold you...

 We 10/14/26- gummy 745am {1/4 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 25 mg total}. 815am (GB: 4/ Green Crack). 845am {1/4 VIIA 'Day Drift' 100 mg: 50 mg total for the day; spaced an hour apart}. 1pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack).  Up 715am: Very light showers early, then cloudy with temps to mid 70's.  I threw out a random stack of books that sat on the living room mantle; thinning the herd.  Watched 'THE CRITIC' (Hoopla). The film is set in London's theater district during the mid 1930's and very slowly morphs into a pretty grim & gruesome tale. A notorious, old & gay theater critic plots crimes that lead to blackmail, suicide, and murder. The protagonist is a gay man who flaunts his sexuality in an era that treated homosexuality as an imprisonable offense; with Ian McKellen, Mark Strong. "54" Metascore and I would go to "84". From Collider: "A film filled with intensity, this is a wo...

 Tu 10/13/26 750am (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 1225pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie). 535pm (GB: 5/ Green Crack). 825pm (GB: 5/ Maui Wowie).  Up 645am: Bright & sunny with temps to 90, but temps drop 40 degrees tomorrow. Yesterday was the warmest 10/12 since 1962 and it marked the latest point in the calendar year that the city has ever recorded a 90 degree temp since official record keeping began in the late 1800's. Today might shred that record. I didn't need the AC yesterday, but it's 'ON' today.  Paid Card Watched 'SIRAT' (Kanopy). In Arabic the title means 'the path' or 'the way'. This is a kind of metaphor for 'heaven and hell, hope and hopelessness, and destruction and renewal'. You think you've seen it all after the young boy and his puppy fall off the side of a mountain, but it really becomes a nightmare when the crew are tripping their brains out and learn that they are in a minefield. Like nothing else. Nominated for 2 Oscars; 50 wi...