Friday, May 15, 2020

A Ho-Hum Weekly Link Round-Up




There's so little going on here at Casa Kittling that it makes me yawn. The only thing out of the ordinary is my wading through hundreds of folders and thousands of photos and videos in order to gather together everything I have in which one of my dearest friends appears. I'll put all I've found on a flash drive and give it to her youngest daughter. Who knows? She might see a side of her mother she's never seen before because her mother had the worst sense of direction, and what she'll see on this flash drive is her mother as an adventurer out in the middle of nowhere with Denis and me.

Speaking of Denis, here's something else I found in my search: a photo taken the day he became an American citizen. (Denis is the one with the shiny head.)


Time to mosey out to the corral. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!



►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄
  • Virtual author events are the next big thing. (The cynical part of me says that they're also money-savers, so unless these virtual events don't bring in book sales, we're probably going to see a lot more of them.)
  • Drive-in theaters are coming back in style for a socially distanced world. (When I was a kid, you'd go to the drive-in on Friday or Saturday nights. Now I'll stay home with my large screen TV and surround sound.)
  • What do famous people's bookshelves reveal?
  • Covidiots? Quarantinis? A linguist explains how COVID-19 has infected our language
  • A cleverly designed brass "hygiene hand" tool that acts as a substitute for human hands on public surfaces.
  • Anthony Hopkins delights fans as he plays piano for his cat in self-isolation.
  • The real story behind The Sound of Music is far more depressing than the film.
  • Netflix commits $100 million to help actors and crews thrown out of work.


►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄


►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄


►Mother Nature Responds to COVID-19◄
  • Incredible pictures show flamingos flocking to Mumbai amid India's coronavirus lockdown.
  • Tonka the Great Dane cheers up senior citizen center residents during the coronavirus safety containment.
  • With humans in lockdown, animals flourish.


►The Happy Wanderer◄


►Fascinating Folk◄


►I ♥ Lists◄


That's all for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

Stay safe. Stay healthy. Practice social distancing by curling up with a good book!


18 comments:

  1. That's a great 'photo, Cathy - thanks for sharing. A monumental day for you both. And sometimes, 'not much new' isn't so bad at all, is it? Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Uzbekistan...

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    1. "Not much new" can be quite good, but there is such a thing as a surfeit of it. Ah well. Keep calm and carry on!

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  2. I'm off to do my first check of links!

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    1. Hope you find some that tickle your fancy!

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  3. I love that picture of Denis! Very nice and also so kind of you for doing the picture gathering for your friend's daughter. Know she will appreciate it. Virtual author events - yes, I can see those becoming more common and also makes them less expensive for the bookstore. If they could just figure out how to get the books signed - ha! I also can't believe the thing about the drive-in theaters! I certainly remember those, but in our part of the world, summer movie watching at the drive-in came with lots of mosquito bites. LOL

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    1. Barbara Peters has said that the logistics for these virtual events is much greater than the old in-person format, and part of that is the to-and-fro with the books to get them signed.

      One of the reasons why I said I'd stay at home instead of going to the drive-in was because of the mosquitoes. Of course, back when the drive-in was the place to go on the weekends, there'd be trucks roaming the neighborhoods spraying huge clouds of DDT in an attempt to keep the mosquito population down. It's a wonder we're still alive. Another reason why I'm staying home is... AIR CONDITIONING! LOL

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  4. Comedy mystery movies may be just the ticket! A good reminder I still want to watch Knives Out.

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  5. I used to live quite close to a drive-in so we used to go regularly. We went a couple of years ago but there was a tropical thunderstorm. The rain was so heavy we couldn't see out of the windscreen!

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    1. I remember getting fogged out of the drive-in once. Fog so thick that you couldn't see the screen!

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  6. A very nice photo. Thanks for the links.
    You probably know that Scott Turow's latest legal mystery, "The Last Trial," was just published. Can't wait to read it. He is a terrific legal mystery writer.
    Just as good is the interview with him by Barbara Peters posted at the Poisoned Pen website. I just saw it, just superb and at times, quite funny. Turow's characters even surprise him!
    I highly recommend watching this video, and now I feel like all I could be doing is catching up on the PP videos. That, tea, chocolate biscuits could keep me going for months. But what a way to spend time.

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    1. I love watching those videos. I haven't watched the one with Turow yet; I've been saving it.

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  7. Are you going to get the book? I threw out my budget, and I listed 12 books I want and if my library doesn't open soon, the credit card will be used.

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    1. No, I haven't gotten the book. It may take me a while. I'm not as big a fan of legal thrillers as you are (although I have read his books and enjoyed them).

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  8. It's the courtroom dialogues that I love if they're written well.

    In the Turow interview with Barbara Peters, he mentioned Michael Connelly's Mickey Haller's courtroom scenes as being excellent.

    I watched an interview with Ivy Pochoda and Patrick (doesn't know his last name) last night and it was a bit strange; they discussed serial killers (real ones) in Los Angeles and a lot of violent happenings there.

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    1. That's Patrick Millikin. He's Barbara's righthand man who's edited some short story anthologies and is in charge of the website. His taste in mysteries leans more toward noir and hardboiled. I've noticed that he and I seldom prefer the same fiction, but we tend to like the same non-fiction.

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  9. oh, interesting. Obviously, Barbara Peters is training him for a bigger role in the store.
    I couldn't believe the gory stuff he and Ivy Pochoda were discussing, and she was into it, too.
    But there are a lot of other interviews to watch.

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    1. Considering Barbara's age, she is wise to do so.

      I wasn't interested in Pochoda's interview, but now that you've mentioned it more than once, I'll have to take a look. My GTL (Gore Tolerance Level) is pretty high.

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