mongo

it was just banal beyond belief. probably didn't help that i watched it right after watching anatomy of a fall. this review gets at some of what grated on me. but mostly i was bored to tears by what felt like the movie equivalent of a heavily workshopped mfa piece that's had everything that might have been interesting sanded off to look pretty.

i thought "past lives" was appallingly, embarrassingly bad.

i think that happened already when they let priya krishna do it for a year.

curry leaves are earthy now?

this photograph of a very tranquil sistine chapel was taken just a few seconds before the guy at left-front told me photography was prohibited. i didn't bother saying i was photographing the crowd, not the ceiling. my favourite part of the experience was that they periodically, very loudly, over a microphone, call for silence.

this is only appropriate. i think i actually have a hungry onion account.

are greatly exaggerated.

apparently the username may have been "irishcream". i can't remember that username at all on mouthfuls, so either this was her egullet username or she ddn't post very much here--or not since the very early days. does that name ring a bell for anyone else?

egullet still exists? you really do learn something new each day.

as per squeat, she doesn't know either.

well, both steve and squeat came up empty. i'll ask lippy next.

i have sent messages to squeat and rancho gordo (both listed as fb friends of maureen o'reilly)--maybe one of them will remember what her username was here.

ask not for whom the bell tolls and all that but i'm afraid i'm going to need to know who i am mourning before i can mourn.

deepest condolences.

wilf?