DramatistDreamer

This episode is a joyride. The cat and mouse between Craig and Lucinda, Craig's taunting and Lucinda's triumphant expression when she calls his bluff and realizes she's guessed right and Craig's reaction when he realizes this, is a dynamic that writers just couldn't get right in the later iterations of Craig. Add his skulking around Sierra (I could've sworn I saw Finn trying to stifle a surreptitious urge to laugh when she and Scott suddenly face each other in the corner). The blocking in this scene is impeccable with Craig practically becoming an immovable object that Sierra can't avoid and Tonio fuming. Margo's scenes with Shannon and Harriet are hilarious. Hillary Bailey Smith's facial expressions add even more hilarity. I wonder if they were all able to get through that in one take, or at least without bursting into complete laughter. https://youtu.be/rE109Qu7HQM

What a disaster this tournament has turned out to be, especially on the ATP side. Glad I hardly watched any of it.

Although, I can definitely see why Fritz is not a great prospect either. I really haven't been able to watch much and I don't regret it. Whenever I have gotten the chance to get a look, the court speed is lulling me to sleep--then again, it's not too different from what I remember of IW decades ago. IW, in general, used to be the snooze compared to Miami. I don't mind Vika winning it, and I know that Badosa annoys a lot of fans but I am truly agnostic where she's concerned.

For me, it's anybody else but wife beater. I'm used to U.S. tennis media hyping up any players coming along since the days of the Williams Sisters' primes when they promoted any U.S. woman who they thought could beat them. This frenzy is not new to me, been dealing with it for twenty years now.

Only saw some of the match but I saw that 'Baby Daddy' won his match.

Speaking of that which fails to surprise, is anyone surprised that this has been revealed? Couldn't be me.

Wow, all the one-slam wonders in singles are scooting into the HOF this year! I thought a player needed a minimum of 2 majors (of the 4 GS tournaments).

Hoping Grigor can keep it up, all the way to the title. It's the only result that makes sense at this point.

No new revelations but still, a good article to read nonetheless. Also, a very tragic story that offers a lesson on waiting a little bit too late to get vaccinated.

Trump never really cared about the GOO, they were a means to an end for him. He's perfectly willing to take the party that he supposedly leads to satisfy his petty agenda. If anything, Mitch, Lindsey and those GOO incumbents would look more foolish for tying the fortunes of their party's fate to someone who doesn't care, one way or the other whether that party sinks or floats.

Yay for Grigor!

That photo makes me misty-eyed. John Abbott with his three kids. Happy birthday to Jerry Douglas! Oh, and Lisa Rinna is trending again...this time for reasons that are not good.

The only thing that surprises me about this is the length of time it took to get to this point.

"Go. To Hell. Tomorrow. Rogerrrr!" 😂

I don't think so, at least from what I have read from other virologists. From what I have read they made the choice not to formulate it this way from the get-go. I doubt that FDA approval had anything to do with this since they already had emergency authorization. What full FDA approval really did was give the federal government the authority to mandate it, rather than have it be taken solely on a voluntary basis. I really think many of these pharmaceutical companies didn't believe that this virus would adapt so efficiently. They seemed to treat COVID-19 as though it would behave more like other coronaviruses like MERS, which were deadly but not as ruthlessly efficient in its transmission ability.

I don't think that's it. This mRNA technology has been in the works for nearly twenty years now. Money and politics are more likely to figure into these decisions.

Originally, I had planned for Moderna (not because of Dolly but because of the epidemiologist whose work I had been reading about who was part of the team that had developed the Moderns vaccine) but left it open for whatever 2 dose vaccine was available. I went into it knowing that none of these pharmaceutical companies are particularly ethical, but the same can be said of most large corporations and I knew, similar to when I take a multivitamin (supplements, which, by the way are the least regulated industry in the U.S.) or a pain reliever, I would just have to trust the science behind the product. I didn't intend to leave myself vulnerable if I could help matters and that involved getting vaccinated. My one recurring question is, why didn't one of these companies formulate the COVID-19 vaccine in a similar fashion to the flu vaccine, which can quickly be adjusted to variants and different strains? I guess they figured that they wouldn't have to deal with this many variants?

Moderna, which it's been established, has the most effective vaccine, as it offers a high level of protection over the longest period of time, is effectively pricing out low-income and middle-income countries, in favor of the highest bidders, even though they took nearly $1 million dollars from a non-profit with the promise to deliver vaccine equity. Moderna, racing for profits, keeps jabs out of reach of poor

One of the aspects of NYC living that I missed most had been the NYC Public Library system, even more so when I had discovered they had access to Kanopy. Well, call me tardy, because I just found out that the NYPL cut Kanopy, citing high costs. It makes me wonder how much longer Kanopy will be sustainable and will other library systems follow suit?

Eh, nice will get you a half-priced sandwich on a good day. Most players who want to win matches will show you that they're not really nice. Sportsmanlike is more than adequate. By the way, I don't believe that either Kim Clijsters or Petra Kvitova are actually "nice", especially not on court when that killer instinct kicks in and they want to grab that match win. Even someone fitting that stereotypical definition of nice can be pushed into not-so-nice behavior, every once in awhile. These matches have gone on too late for me to consider watching, but I had to howl with laughter when I saw a tweet that described Sloane as "slow-footed" in her loss to Pegula. It's well known that Sloane often refuses to move her feet. I guess Pegula was coached well on what to look for.

Supposedly, Kurz was often promoted as the new face of young conservatism, according to this article and tbh, I remember the pomp and circumstance and numerous mentions of him supposedly heralding an era of center-right and right-wing governance in Europe. Oh, how times have changed.