A pretty lame holiday weekend. I pretty clearly have bronchitis again, so at some point I’ll have to go to the doctor and get some antibiotics; I know from experience that it doesn’t go away on its own. As well, my Internet connection at home continues to be down. I got about three minutes of connection all weekend, which kind of sucked, since I spent most of it at home being sick. I mean, don’t get me wrong, this is hardly the sort of things Dickens might have written about. Still, it wasn’t optimal.
I did watch 1776 again on TCM yesterday. (Poor TCM, there are only like five old movies about the American Revolution, so they have to trot the same line-up out every year.) Great musical, really, and it does a good job of going through the process of how the Constitution was passed. William Daniels does a great job as John Adams, it’s a real shame that he remains mostly remembered for playing a talking car. An interesting companion piece to the John Adams mini-series, too. Watching both and the PBS mini-series The Revolution, which features excerpts from John and Abigail Adams’ fervid correspondence during their too many and too long separations really brings home how theirs is one of the great love stories ever.
So…not much to report. I hope everyone had a great holiday. Considering this an open thread if you wish to share your thoughts on anything you saw or read or did.
