For those of you who don't know, Naomi Osaka is a 20-year-old professional tennis player from Japan. Ever since she turned pro in 2013, she has played women who were formerly ranked number one in the world, including Victoria Azarenka, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber, Karolína Plíšková, and Maria Sharapova, as well as the current number …
Short Summary – BCS S4 E5
Short Summary is an original series in which I write brief reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Spoilers ABOUND! "Quite a Ride" I never thought I'd see that big Constitution wallpaper again, but the cold open for "Quite a Ride" (in color, not black and white this time) sends Better Call Saul …
Short Summary – BCS S4 E4
(Sorry for being way behind, folks! I've got a lot to catch up on.) Short Summary is an original series in which I write brief reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Spoilers ABOUND! "Talk" "Talk" doesn't reveal anything new about Chuck's letter like I thought it might. Yet I have a strong …
Short Summary – BCS S4 E3
Short Summary is an original series in which I write brief reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Spoilers ABOUND! "Something Beautiful" "Something Beautiful" doesn't revolve around a single event like the first two episodes did. In fact, many different things are going on in this episode. It starts with an elaborate, …
Short Summary – BCS S4 E2
Short Summary is an original series in which I write brief reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Spoilers ABOUND! "Breathe" While "Smoke" focused on the aftermath of Chuck's death, "Breathe" mostly switches over to the ramifications of Hector's stroke, some of which prove to be fatal in a different way. Hector …
Short Summary – BCS S4 E1
Short Summary is an original series in which I write brief reviews of movies, TV shows, video games, books, and more. Spoilers ABOUND! "Smoke" Ahh, I'm back, reviewing the latest season of another TV show I love: Better Call Saul. I just caught up with BoJack Horseman, and I'm still catching up on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, both of which I'll write …
8 Airports
Let me tell you the tale of how my husband went through 8 airports in 4 days, and I in 5. It all began last Friday when we took off from our home base, the Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. MHT is a small and simple place, with maybe a dozen gates making up a single terminal. …
My Favorite Movie
I love a lot of movies... so many of them, probably too many. I love everything about movies. I pride myself on quoting classic lines from and identifying actors and actresses in numerous movies, even though both are tidbits of arguably useless information that I'm wasting precious space saving in my brain. I have full scenes …
My Favorite Song
I used to hate the idea of choosing a favorite. Besides my favorite color (green), I used to think that picking favorites of anything else was impossible. There was just way too much to choose from, I thought, and I didn't have the guts to narrow it down and choose only one when there were …
Friends
So this post had to go through a bit of a rewrite. I'll get straight to the reason why: a longtime friend of mine died yesterday. She had been in the hospital since February, fighting tooth and nail to recover from a cardiac arrest, and in the past few days, she decided that she didn't …
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