A week of quarantine (and screen) provides time to ponder

Graeme Tuckett is the reviewer for StufftoWatch.

opinion: Two years later, with hundreds of masks, three shots, and I was paying as much attention as I could in any situation, it seems that Omicron finally got me.

So if you say you feel like 100% today, you’ll lie. My head keeps swimming towards strange fantasies and illusions, but my back and arms feel like sparring against someone who is much bigger and mean than I am. Every breath is like breaking your ribs.

Covid is terrible, I’ve never been sick – and anyone who says it’s just a terrible cold came to share my head and sinuses this afternoon. Welcome. I’ve had a “terrible cold” and the flu, which is like hitting a truck.

So, as the prince might have said, “If you get lost, please forgive me.”

Comedians like John Oliver are not only very talented and entertaining men, but also comedians who use Republicans as playbooks with handmade stories, at least what I can follow.

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Comedians like John Oliver are not only very talented and entertaining men, but also comedians who use Republicans as playbooks with handmade stories, at least what I can follow.

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The week’s voluntary blockade hasn’t started so badly. I don’t have a morning routine to go out for the best long black in Wellington – no, I don’t know where it came from – and I start working. However, the quick catch-up between the tea mug on the front stairs and the cat next door is pretty good.

Meanwhile, America collapsed, and I realized that everyone thought that a lifelong appointment to the Supreme Court was a good idea so far. The only way to get angry with news from the US this week is to get the news only from comedians.

John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Stewart are all available on YouTube, but not only are they very talented and entertaining men, but at least using the Republican Party as a handmade story as a playbook. It’s also a commentator that I’ve made. follow.

Marsamitchell effects are streamed on Netflix.

I received a package from a friend in New York. A legitimate copy of the new series of Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell and Sean Penn as Attorney General John Mitchell, in the months leading up to Watergate. .. I grew up, was absorbed in it, and was impressed. This is a kind of show that will be cleaned up during the award season. But it’s also said to be the most corrupt in modern history, a visceral reminder of the times when the Republicans at least admitted that the president went too far and broke many customs. Justice is provided.

Is it just me, or does the entire Watergate scandal look like a child’s mischief compared to what the last incumbent tried to pull on January 6th last year?

According to a magazine article, a new series of Black Mirrors may appear. I am skeptical of the abilities of a fictitious dystopia when the real thing seems to be so much on the horizon. But I still see it. Even though I know the show’s ability to create things like victory and revelation like the San Junipero episode, it has been exhausted for a long time.

Julia Roberts plays Martha Mitchell in the TV drama

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Julia Roberts plays Martha Mitchell in the TV drama “Gaslit”.

Marsamitchell effects have been dropped on Netflix. This is a documentary about the events of the show Gaslit. I calmed down to see it – and maybe I feel better when one woman helped humble the tyrant.

But think about how long it’s been since movies, documentaries, and news reports really influenced the world. At least decades?

Then, make a mug in the morning and ask the cat next door how it was at night. And enjoy yourself a few hours away from these screens.