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| Grandpa's Coming! |
In my hasty description of the
upcoming birthdays I forgot one of momentous import on which she rightfully
chastised me. The Great Aunt, or as she was known locally in our house and by a
certain Cantankerous Friend when we were much younger, – Miss Oh So Perfect or
the MOSP celebrates her birthday the day after my own. As family lore will have
it told – I ruined her first birthday party. Growing up our parents did the
sensible thing and had a combined birthday party for the two of us – something I
think both of us resented to a certain extent. Anyways, those days are long
gone (frightfully long) and it is completely appropriate that she will be
joining the birthday pub crawl because she is eminently qualified with her birthday
that same week.
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| Oh Boy! |
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| Well, Maybe |
We depart tonight for the wilds of New
Jersey to celebrate the newest birthday in the family (at least until February)
with the ceremonies surrounding the second birthday of the FBR. She was getting
into the spirit last night during our nightly FaceTime call by practicing all
of her silliest faces. She seemed singularly unimpressed with our imminent
arrival. Tomorrow night with the arrival of the ABFA and my Favorite Son we’ll
have the entire family in the same place for the first time since I learned
about the BRS back in June. Color me psyched.
I finished Michael Connelly’s latest
Harry Bosch book – Two Kinds of Truth yesterday. Harry is charged with
looking into a double murder while also addressing an attack on one of his old
LAPD cases. This offered an opportunity for Connelly to bring his two famous
literary characters, Bosch and his half-brother the Lincoln Lawyer Mickey
Haller, together. Both plot lines were fascinating as Harry has a very bad week
dealing with both issues in typically acerbic Bosch manner. Harry remains the
tarnished knight seeking justice for the victims of the many crimes he has to
solve. A death row inmate is trying to accuse him of malfeasance thirty years
after the fact and a politically motivated DA is helping out. At the same time
the double murder involves the national opioid crisis and Connelly provides
some very realistic insight into that incredible mess. I continue to love all
of Connelly’s work – especially when it features Mr. Bosch.
The Bad Cinema project count rises to #54
out of 100, with Eyes Behind
the Stars, an Italian movie set in England, kind of, which plays like a very
broken X-Files episode.
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