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Monday, July 25, 2022
David Warner
Sunday, July 24, 2022
The Gray Man
Alanis Morissette: The Jagged Little Pill 25th Anniversary Tour
All I Really Want
Hand in My Pocket
Right Through You
You Learn
Hands Clean (Snippet)
Forgiven
Everything (Snippet)
Mary Jane
Diagnosis (Snippet)
Reasons I Drink
Head Over Feet
So Unsexy (Snippet)
Ablaze
Nemesis (Snippet)
Perfect
Losing the Plot (Snippet)
Wake Up
Not the Doctor
Ironic
Sympathetic Character (Snippet)
Smiling
I Remain (Snippet)
You Oughta Know
Encore:
Your House
Uninvited
Thank U
Alanis's voice was INCREDIBLE, holding notes and using her vocal cords as the best instrument on the stage. At 48, she made no pretense of divadom, wearing sneakers, messy blond hair, and a loose t-shirt that looked to have a homemade design.
Saturday, July 23, 2022
Reviver by Seth Patrick
Junie finished reading this book earlier this year, after taking it off Lulu's bookshelf, and I picked up after getting hooked on the first few chapters. So that means 3 of us have read it.
Unfortunately, those first chapters were a bait and switch. It began as a unique and terrifying premise - forensic artists can resurrect dead victims just long enough to coax the name of their killer, only now, something far darker wants to cross the divide into our world. Aaaaand then it devolved into a run of the mill thriller novel, complete with unnecessary romance, hokey cliffhangers, yada yada.
When I asked Junie her opinion of it, to see if it matched mine, she merely shrugged and said "It was a book."
I grade it a C.
Friday, July 22, 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Thursday, July 21, 2022
Honey Buns
Another classmate lost
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Sunday, July 17, 2022
The 2022 MLB Draft
Friday, July 15, 2022
Taqwa's
For years now I've ignored Taqwa's on 27th and Layton. After all, I snootily thought, how good could a Mediterranean restaurant be if it sets up shop in an abandoned Burger King?
Well, as it turns out, pretty darn good.
The interior of the restaurant was comfortable and attractive, and displayed no hint of its fast food history.
We started off with delightful tabun bread, served with oil and herbs.
We tried a spinach fatayer, an individual pie cooked in a burning stone oven, and vegetable sambousek, a deep fried pastry that could pass for an eggroll. The fatayer was excellent; the sabousek merely good.
For an entree we split a mixed platter of one skewer each of Shish Kabob, Chicken Shish Tawook & Kufta Kabob. They were wonderful, although the rice it was served with was a little lacking in flavor.
All that, and a reasonable price too.
It's worth a visit, and I regret not going sooner!