Day: January 1, 2018

Three sentence movie reviews: Dick

This was an enjoyable bit of fluff, that would have been a greater amount of fun before we found out who Deep Throat was.* This is a great example of Williams and Dunst bringing their all, even to the least of their roles.  Dan Hedaya was also good as Nixon.**

Cost: free from library
Where watched: at home

*Another marker of my nerd life: I often wondered if I would still be alive when the identity of Deep Throat was revealed.  Happily, I am!  That was a very exciting day.
**Potential task for when I have too much time on my hands: make a list of every actor I’ve ever seen portray Nixon.

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Three sentence movie reviews: 13 Reasons Why

There are 13 reasons why this was hard to watch, and also engrossing.  Dylan Minette and Katherine Langford were a lot of the reason the series was so well done, as both made for very sympathetic characters.  Due to the content, and what I felt was a very realistic way young women are treated, I could only watch one episode per day, which gave me a lot of time to think about what was going on, and I felt an absence when the season was done.

Cost: steamed on Netflix ($7.99/month)
Where watched: at home

An aside: the quantity of tattoos on underage teenagers? Felt unrealistic.
Another aside: Christian Navarro, as Tony, the character that sometimes verged into the “magical Negro” (in his case, magical Puerto Rican) territory, had amazing eyes.

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Kugel in Chicken Noodle Soup

What’s this?  I’m trying out a recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup in which the noodles are cooked into a kugel and then added to the soup part before serving.  This seems a good concept, especially for me who eats soup over a week (or two weeks). It is a particularly good idea because pasta sucks up all the broth as time goes on.  By keeping the two separate, there is more control over this.

Having now sampled a week of this method, I give it a so-so.  As you can see, the top noodles get dried out while the bottom noodles end up gluey. While it accomplishes the goal of not having the noodles become over saturated, I’m not sure dried/gluey is that much better of an option.

I will probably make this recipe again for me, but I don’t think I would serve it to anyone else.

Three sentence movie reviews: The Florida Project

I found this to be brilliantly filmed, making a welfare hotel in Florida look gorgeous. It also seemed quite realistic, with compelling performances.  I got caught up in the unfortunate life of Mooney, and overall did not enjoy the film because I was worried about her fate, and the fate of so many other children who come from similar circumstances.

Cost: $3.00
Where watched: Laurelhurst with S. North