Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan board a Lockheed 10-E Electra in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 2, 1937, during their around-the-world flight attempt. They disappeared July 2, 1937. What happened to them remains a mystery.
“Short words, short sentences, short paragraphs. There’s nothing that can’t be improved by making it shorter and better.”
Charles Osgood (1933-2024)
Once a month I highlight a piece of art I have created and posted on my Fine Art America site. This one is titled You Can Pass from the Abstract Art Collection.
At the end of last year we received an oil and gas lease offer from an Oklahoma company for our acreage, which is part of a 640 acre area where they want to drill. We have zero experience with this kind of thing, so we will check with our neighbors first to find out what they think about the issue.
One night recently I let our dog, Steve, outside and there was a opossum scrounging around the outside of the garage. Steve immediately went after the animal and it dropped into a ball before Steve even got to it. He picked it up in his mouth a couple of times, and I heard some cracking sounds, but let the opossum drop on the sidewalk each time after a few seconds. The playing dead worked and Steve lost all interest in it and wandered off to explore his yard. That left it to me to finish off the wounded animal.
We just experienced our first winter storm of the season. As usual people were worried about what might happen, stirred up by the forecasters. We received around 5 inches of snow, with some wide drifts whipped up by the wind. Down south of us, in lower Iowa, areas received 10 to 12 inches. Of course, by the end of winter we are not so much worried by the snow storms but sick of them and ready for spring. Another one is blowing through starting tomorrow.
Here is a fairly complete hodgepodge of movies and shows that I watched this year, most of them with Shelly. There are so many streaming services that together offer so much content that when it comes to talking with other people about “what have you been watching lately” you usually find very few of you watch the same shows or movies. I did not give this list a star rating system; just bold if I liked it and would recommend it.
Triple Frontier (2019)
ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas (2019)
CCR Travelin’ Band Live @ Royal Albert Hall (2022)
Tulsa King, S1 (2022)
1923, S1 (2022)
Interception (2022)
Count Me In (2021)
The Gray Man (2022)
Blacklight (2022)
Bullet Train (2022)
Jim Jefferies: High & Dry, Bare, Freedumb (various years)
Craig Ferguson: Tickle Fight (2017)
The Man From Toronto (2022)
The Guilty (2021)
I Care Alot (2020)
Awake (2021)
Sea Power (2020)
The Gunman (2015)
Waco: American Apocalypse (2023)
R.I.P.D. (2013)
Troll (2022)
War Sailor (2022)
Kate (2021)
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
AVA (2020)
Sneaky Pete S 1&2 (2017-18)
The Decline (2020)
John Mulaney – Baby J (2023)
Hold The Dark (2018)
Valley of the Dead (2020)
Champions (2023)
Inside (2023)
Beef (2023)
Inside Man (2006)
A Man Called Otto (2022)
The Adam Project (2022)
The Forgotten Battle (2020)
The Sandman, S1 (2020)
Manifest, S1-4 (2018-21)
Sweet Tooth, S1,2 (2021)
The Thing (2011)
Black Crab (2022)
Crimson Peak (2015)
Medal of Honor
65 (2023)
Russian Doll, S1,2 (2019)
Extraction 2 (2023)
Apostle (2018)
The Raid 1 & 2 (2011 & 2014)
Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
Archive 81 (2022)
Oatstudios (2017)
Big George Foreman (2023)
Hard Times (1975)
Terminator 2 (1991)
Bosch: Legacy, S1,2 (2022-23)
Andy Warhol Diaries (2023)
Heart of Stone (2023)
The Umbrella Academy, S 1-3 (2019-22)
The Nice Guys (2016)
Dredd (2012)
Avengement (2019)
The Good Neighbor (2016)
Black Summer, S2 (2021)
Sly (2023)
The Last Duel (2021)
A Walk In The Woods (2015)
Arnold (2023)
Zulu (1964)
The White Buffalo (1977)
The Continental (2023)
Comes A Horseman (1978)
Reacher, S 2 (2023)
The Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Leave The World Behind (2023)
Reptile (2023)
To distill this list (starting from the top) into a few of my favorites I watched during 2023 I would pick:
CCR
1923
War Sailor
The Raid 1&2
The Good Neighbor
Black Summer
To find out where any of these are streaming I recommend Just Watch.
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