“Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.” — Sherlock Holmes
Spoiler: In “The Adventure of the Yellow Face” (1893), a white woman from Atlanta married a black man and had his child.
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Yellow_Face
Better Call Saul is even better than its highly praised predecessor, Breaking Bad. The final season of 13 episodes begins on April 18.
https://youtu.be/meb8ksPgJ5M
My cable DVR says it’s going to record a preview this coming Saturday. After the final episode has appeared, TCM really will be the only reason for me to keep cable TV. The live channel is available with a Hulu subscription, but the Watch TCM streaming service requires a cable or satellite subscription.
Bob Odenkirk suffered a heart attack while he was on the set. He talked about it with Colbert a couple of weeks ago. I first started watching Breaking Bad after Colbert made references to it on his old Comedy Central show.
I am incredulous at what William Barr said on today’s Meet the Press, to promote his book that I will not read. The entire interview with Chuck Todd is worth watching, but this video starts at the point where I realized I was reflexively shaking my head at Barr’s twisted illogic.
Barr says, “I believe the progressive wing of the Democratc party is dangerous for the United States.” Todd almost seemed to stop himself from asking, “more dangerous than an outgoing President inciting a riot to prevent the Constitutionally-mandated transfer of power?”
Some Kind of Heaven is quite different from what I expected. Unlike the NY Times article, it ignores the conservative politics held by most residents of The Villages. After some very brief historical background, with no axes to grind, the documentary is a focused character study of a few residents.
One of them is a homeless con man, pretending to be a resident and searching for “a nice looking lady with some money” to take him in. Another is the long-suffering wife of a self-medicating, mentally ill man. Then there is the lonely widow from Boston who is having trouble finding her place among the fun-loving retirees.
The Villages in Florida may be America’s biggest retirement community, but it is not unique. I am very familiar with Sun City West in Arizona, and while watching the documentary I felt much of it could have been produced there. Here’s a conversation between the director and a couple living in The Villages.
The Sunday Boston Globe magazine celebrated the paper’s 150th anniversary. Two pages were devoted to a bit of comic page history. I was amused to see the Globe had a local comic strip drawn by a William J. Sinnott.
Yesterday a friend was telling me about retirement living in Florida. From my extensive exposure to Arizona, I learned that neither its sun nor the politics are good for me. I’m certain Florida would be the same. Today I read a piece in The New York Times about Florida’s largest retirement community, The Villages, that further cements my feeling about Florida.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/florida-the-villages.html
The article mentions a documentary the Times co-produced, called Some Kind of Heaven. Being made sufficiently curious by the article, for a couple of bucks I have rented it on Amazon Prime.
