This morning I was walking down the sidewalk and came upon this woman with two huge dogs, standing talking to someone and blocking the entire sidewalk.  I stepped onto some leaves beside the sidewalk on top of what I though was a lawn but turned out to be some sort of hole with a pipe in it.  I twisted my foot and almost fell down.  

I get so fed up with these inconsiderate dog people who go around smiling and seem to think that everyone finds their dogs as fascinating as they do.

I wish this stupid fad for dogs downtown would soon end.

Also this morning I saw someone at Yonge and Bloor walking a husky.  By what mental process does anyone come to think that having a HUSKY in the downtown of a city is a reasonable thing to do?

Fast Food Whining

Today I ordered a ham+turkey sub at Subway.  So she proceeds to make a ham sub.  And as always, I say nothing, just accept it, and seethe inwardly for a while.  

Do I not speak clearly or do people just not listen?

I love the order terminals at MacDonalds where you don't have to deal with a person except to pick up your order.  If you don't order the right thing it's clearly your own fault.

The second last time I was at Swiss Chalet they messed up my order, which I didn't find out until I got home and opened the bag.  The last time I was at Swiss Chalet the fries were so dry they seemed like they were leftover from the day before and reheated.

I shouldn't be eating fast food anyway.

Also, why do so many fast good places not have menus up where you can see them?  It's like they assume everyone goes to them so often they have the menu memorized.  If you're an occasional customer you're lost.

Over

It's over.  I've been eating brown rice for years because it's healthier.

I've never liked it and I'm fed up with making myself eat something I don't like.

So it's back to lovely white rice.

Netflix: Rebecca

Oh dear.  They tried, really really hard.  But.

It just doesn't work.  Everyone tries but Lily James and Armie Hammer, although good actors generally, here just leave you not caring.(Lily James is also way too old and adult for the role, she can't pass for a "young girl".)  At times it's overwrought - the fault of the writing/directing, not the actors. Kirsten Scott Thomas on the other hand is the only one who seems to know what to do with her role.  Also, what's with the wardrobe for Lily James in the Monte Carlo scenes, how did she afford all those outfits?

The 1997 version with Emilia Fox, Charles Dance and Diana Rigg was better although not really great.

The 1979 version with Joanna David (Emilia Fox's mother), Jeremy Brett and Anna Massey was a worthy production and well worth watching.  

But 1940 version by Alfred Hitchcock with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson is just so well done that you wonder why anyone bothers to even try to do a remake.  Maybe because the 1979 version did work so well.  

TV: The Sinner, Season 3

I liked this and largely not because of the storyline, but that was fine.

Bill Pullman gave a solid performance, as always, but Matt Bomer was a standout.

What I really liked were the ideas about philosophy, education, how people influence others, religion,  how we perceive death - and how dangerous all these things can be in some circumstances.

Movie: Hold the Dark (2018)

Sometimes I like "unusual" movies but I like them to be fathomable.  This one wasn't, even after doing a search and reading some reviews.

The scenery was beautiful at times and a sequence later in the film involving an airplane was just beautiful, almost worth watching the whole film to see it.

The cast was just ok, with the exception of James Badge Dale who gave an outstanding subtle performance.

Dog Genetics

I heard a report this morning on the genetics of playfulness in dogs.  It seems most of the types of dogs we have were bred in the lasts few hundred years.  The most playful dogs are working dogs that interact with people.  The least playful are the small toy dogs that were bred as fashion accessories.  

Too bad they hadn't bred the nasty little things to shut up.