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What I Love About “At Ethel and Harry’s on the Last Night”*

#KathyFish *(In) Wild Life Collected Works from 2003-2018 by Kathy Fish, Matter Works 2018, first edition From within the pages of (The New York Times) style magazine, Ethel creates a “conversation piece”—frankfurter and macaroni gelatin surprise. What I love about this story. Everything. From the title to Ethel’s first line of dialogue, “I could cry,”… Continue reading What I Love About “At Ethel and Harry’s on the Last Night”*

“Stranger Things” Season 4 Epic Finale

By Netflix - Netflix, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50284157

Music in Subtitles Because I am hard of hearing, and because Hollywood hasn’t figured out how to make dialogue as loud as explosions (even though DOLBY has been around for half a century), I watched the Epic Finale of Stranger Things (Season 4, Chapter 9 “The Piggyback”) with subtitles. Some surprisingly sloshy sounds: “Tentacles moistly… Continue reading “Stranger Things” Season 4 Epic Finale

The Girl in the Undershirt

That's me on the left. I didn't smile on purpose because I wanted to see what I looked like when I don't.

I didn’t expect to be “the girl in the undershirt.” That’s not fair!