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After a marathon knitting session last night I finished the yoke of my sweater tee! 🧶 Now I have to figure out how to do the next bits. So much to learn! Short rows, double the stitch, turn work…I need to look up definitions and watch videos for all this stuff. But I’ve yet to be foiled! 💪

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Beginner knitter update! 🧶 About 1 cm to go on my Flax sweater! 📐 Plus, I learned how to spit join! It’s kinda gross🤢 but works perfectly. I’m pretty happy with how it’s looking, but a knit row on one raglan sleeve is weirdly elongated. No idea how that happened. Arrow in picture below.

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When the Nintendo Switch 2 launches tomorrow it'll be the first time since the Game Boy Color that I haven't covered a major console launch. I thought missing an event like this might make me feel sad, but there's really not much I want to play in the launch lineup. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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#5SecondReview: Love, Death, & Robots (S4) A mixed bag, like usual. Some standouts: 400 Boys (a heady mix of The Warriors, The Wall, and Heavy Metal) Close Encounters of the Mini Kind (funny fast-paced alien invasion) How Zeke Got Religion (WWII bomber crew encounters a Fallen Angel)

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So much house and human maintenance over the last few days. Doctor, dentist, deck, garden, yard, plumber, AC, water heater. It’s summer. I just want to sit around and knit and read and play video games. 🫩🥱

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#5SecondReview: The Murderbot Diaries: Fugitive Telemetry The fourth book in the series (chronologically) is a standalone novella. It’s a little murder mystery filled with dry wit, bits of cleverly constructed action, and plenty of semiorganic robot humanity (cyborgity?). Fun read.

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#5SecondReview: Bring Her Back When the Phillipou twins’ step on the gas this A24 picture is terrifying. Hawkins is excellent as a deranged and scheming foster mom, but young Jonah Wren Phillips steals the show as Oliver, fearlessly doing stuff that will give me post-traumatic flashbacks for years.

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#5SecondReview: The Order Never heard of it? That’s because distributors sat on this one pre-election due to its “politically charged” story. Not sure how a true story about the FBI taking down a notorious white supremacist group is controversial. Symptom of our dystopia. Anyway. Very good.

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#5SecondReview: Ash Very meh and predictable, but a tolerable late night watch if there’s nothing else on and you’re an incurable sci-fi horror sponge like me. Kinda liked Flying Lotus’ retro sounding score.

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#5SecondReview: Mobland Mirren as a deliciously scheme-y Irish mob boss wife helps bring out the best performance I’ve ever seen from Brosnan, who’s clearly having a hoot playing an unpredictable psychopath / paterfamilias. Hardy is great, too, playing Brosnan’s quietly efficient right hand.

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#5SecondReview: Your Friends & Neighbors Grown ups dealing with grown up problems. I’m not normally down with that sort of thing, but Hamm, Munn, Hall, and Peet make it pretty palatable. The critical commentary on consumerism and capitalism is also appreciated.

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#5SecondReview: The Silmarillion Tolkien's mythology covering the Ages prior to The Hobbit/TLotR is a hard read. Hundreds of characters (each with multiple names) and SO MUCH peril (seriously, it feels like "peril" appears on every page). 1/2

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#5SecondReview: The Last of Us (S2) HBO's adaptation of my favourite games continues to do them justice. The world is breathtaking in its sad beauty, and the characters are rich and authentic and tragic. Bella Ramsey in particular is fantastic. She makes me want to know Ellie.

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Weekly beginner knitter update!🧶 It looks like I haven’t made much progress, but I’m working on Flax every day (listened to 15+ hours of Tolkein’s The Silmarillion this while knitting this week). No idea if it’ll fit, but the stitching is good enough that I think I won’t be embarrassed to wear it?

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Did some gardening and spring yard work yesterday. My box hedges are finally big enough for a gentle trim! That was fun. Tended to the Japanese maple. Snowbanks sheered off a couple of branches. Recovering well, though. And the potatoes and rubharb I planted May 12 are starting to sprout! 🌱

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HOLY CRAP MUST HAVE NOW INJECT THIS PHYSICAL MEDIA INTO MY VEINS!!! #WesAnderson

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For those interested, here's how I made last week's yummy banana bread. Takes like 10 minutes, plus bake time. Full recipe in the Reel description, as usual. 😊 www.instagram.com/reel/DKC_PuJ...

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#5SecondReview: Fountain of Youth Indiana Krasinki and the Last Crusade! But not as good as that sounds.

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#5SecondReview: Drive 90% vibe, 10% story/character. The soundtrack, shot architecture, and lighting steal the show. Though the cast makes the most of their sparse lines. Gosling is great, but I love Mulligan and Cranston here. And Albert Brooks as a cold-blooded gangster? Weirdly perfect.

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My daughter loves Hawkeye and wants to have his babies so I made her some Hawkeye purple cupcakes for her b-day! 😋

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It's my daughter's b-day weekend. She's studying film in an iArts program at McMaster, interning at a hip marketing firm in Toronto, and the very best person I know with whom to get my geek on when it comes to movies, comics, games, knitting. I love her to smithereens. Here she is 20 years ago.

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#5SecondReview: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One When it comes to dumb action movies, the MIs are hard to beat. This one jumps between pleasantly silly exposition scenes in which good actors chew scenery and butt-clenching practical effects action sequences.

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#5SecondReview: North of North It's like if Corner Gas, Reservation Dogs, and The Office had a weird happy vibes three-way. It's super cute and super fun. Can't wait for season two

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Hidden benefit of knitting 🧶 unlocked! I’m finding I’m snacking less at night for two reasons: 1. My hands are now otherwise occupied! 2. I don’t want greasy, powdery fingers dirtying the yarn or fabric. 😅

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#5SecondReview: The Studio (S1) Funniest and most daring comedy on TV right now. That’s it. That’s the review.

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#5SecondReview: Star Wars: Rogue One Still a really great flick, but, weirdly, Andor’s character doesn’t quite jive with where he is psychologically at the end of the show. The way he kills that dude at the start works if the movie exists as an island, but seems too cold-blooded now.

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#5SecondReview: High Life Second viewing. Still weird and disturbing. There’s a lot of nonsensensical science here, but director Claire Denis uses it to create a setting in which to study imprisonment, medical ethics, obsession, and, ultimately, how to find purpose without a future. Fascinating.

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Made an absolutely delicious Cajun shrimp and chorizo sausage fusilli. Served it with some garlic cheese baguette bites.

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Chicago Sun-Times publishes AI-generated summer reading list filled with books that don’t exist. As a guy who spent 20 years writing stories very much like this for newspapers before the work dried up, I can’t describe how much this irks me. www.thepopverse.com/literary-rec...

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#5SecondReview: Andor (S2) No other group of characters in the Star Wars universe has been explored more deeply or more compassionately, all of their flaws and internal conflicts laid bare. And a shout out to the costumers, hair stylists, set designers, and cinematographers. All brilliant.

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And on a Monday, I made some banana bread. And I ate it. And it was good.

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Weekly beginner knitter update! 🧶 I think I’m cut out for this. Twice this week I frogged back hundreds of stitches to fix vital errors. It was like dying in a video game with the nearest save point hours back. But I wasn’t mad. It was a problem to be solved. I felt challenged. 💪 Slow fashion ftw!

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