Three sentence movie reviews: Tig Notaro Happy to Be Here

https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/posts/tig-notaro-is-just-happy-to-be-here-in-a-new-stand-up-comedy-special-produced-by/10156393989393851/

Tig Notaro is a master of making me like her so much I want to protect her while also making me somewhat uncomfortable during her comedy specials. So was it with this special during the end bit concerning the Indigo Girls. I always enjoy exposure to the machinations of Notaro’s mind.

Cost: Netflix subscription fee ($7.99)
Where watched: at home with Matt

Three sentence movie reviews: Blue Jay

http://www.impawards.com/2016/blue_jay.html

A chance hometown meeting of high school sweethearts launches this two-people-walking-and-talking-style story that you like or you don’t.* Tentative in their conversation at first, Paulson and Duplass crank up the stakes as the hours pass. It’s a quiet movie, populated with good acting and the sadness of nostalgia.

Cost: Netflix monthly subscription ($7.99)
Where watched: at home

Consider also watching: Before We Go, Before Sunrise, Gerry

*I like. Matt doesn’t.

Requiem: Knife

This is a Romanian knife you are looking at!  I visited Hungary & Romania with the church youth group in 2005 (and also 2008, but did not acquire any knives on that trip.) While in Romania, we visited a grocery store to pick up things for a picnic and one of the things the tour leaders brought was this knife.

It somehow got packed into one of the other chaperone’s things and when we were repacking before our flight back to the US, she asked if anyone wanted it.  I volunteered and it’s been a good workhorse since that time.