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- The Wayward Pines finale is tonight. I’m looking forward to it. I’ve been a big David Pilcher fan, but I wonder if he might be genuinely off the rails now.
- I’ll post a few thoughts on Amazon.com’s Fire Phone tomorrow. (Big hint: I’m probably mostly pleased with it.)
- Veteran Ed Carpenter and rookie Sage Karam had a difference of opinion on Saturday night about the way Karam was driving, and it’s become quite the kerfuffle. Karam is young, good-looking, talented, aggressive, and American, which is just the sort of shot in the arm IndyCar needs. Bring the attention. (And I hope the series can hang onto him.)
- I already bragged on it once in my Rocket City Mom review, but let me say again: the guacamole at Las Trojas may be the best $6.79 you’ll ever spend in a restaurant.
- Nathan is in band camp this week. I don’t understand how this can be. He was a kindergartener about, like, two years ago, right? Sheesh. His band director works the kids hard, which I definitely remember from being in band camp myself, but some things are different. For one thing, they do a lot of the outside work after sundown. For another, there is no rookie hazing of any kind. I’m of two minds on that. Might be a post in the near future.
- I’m thinking I’ll review the Publix Greenwise organic salsa next, and then move on to other things. That’ll be four similar products, and a good summary post.
- For the most part, I enjoy the current popular music my children choose for themselves. My dad and I had diverged significantly by the time I was their age. Better music today? Am I cooler than he was? Are the boys gravitating to stuff that sounds like the stuff from my childhood that I played for them? Probably a piece of truth in each of those questions.
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– You’ve not mentioned that ‘Wayward Pines’ is executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan. I expect the unexpected from tonight’s finale.
– I find the Amazon Fire’s lack of a “back button” maddening at times. Also, more than a few of the apps I used on my previous android are unavailable on Amazon’s app store, and fail to function when side loaded. I paid $199 and received a year of Amazon Prime as part of the deal. If I had it to do over, I wouldn’t.
– I had a conversation recently about how there is still plenty of popular music being produced today by new artists that sounds very similar to what was being produced 50 years ago. That wasn’t the case in the 70’s, 80’s, or even the 90’s.
I wondered about a Shyamalan twist, but I understand the story has been very close to the books. I wonder if there might not be room for a twist (unless there’s a twist in the books).
I hear you on the Back button. And I’ve carried a Windows Phone for three years, so that’s my basis of comparison. The only Android phone I ever had was lowball and a long time ago, and I only carried it for a few months.
That’s an intriguing thought on today’s popular music. I’ll have to listen with that in mind and see what I can hear.
I finally found time to watch the final episode of Wayward Pines last night. There was a twist at the very end I didn’t see coming, but I didn’t find it very enjoyable.
Aww, really? I thought it did very well balancing the resolved with the unresolved. I’m good with it continuing. I’m also good with it not continuing.
Pam’s character arc was one of my single favorite things in the whole series. From Nurse Ratched to Ellen Ripley in 420 minutes!
For some reason I was under the impression that the show was 10 episodes and done. Is a 2nd season a possibility?
The show was indeed ten-and-done, and that’s part of what attracted me to it. By and large, I don’t do first-run serial television. That I could so precisely measure my commitment was very appealing. And I understand that these ten episodes do tell the story of all three Wayward Pines novels, with some but not many liberties taken.
But I think they’ve left it at a place where they could stay, or at a place where they could do more.