family stuff, wilby

[boxofdelights]

I'm planning a trip to Portland to see Nixie next semester. Would any of you like to hang out with me?

Nixie was here for Thanksgiving week. She had a tilt-table test, because she fainted again at school, so now we know she doesn't have postural hypotension. Not sure what the next step is.

Mungo turned sixteen, and got a set of wheels: a second-hand bike.

There's a movie I love, called Wilby Wonderful, that you can watch streaming, with commercials, on Hulu:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/59586/wilby-wonderful

sasha_feather mentioned that it's also streaming on Netflix.

It is written and directed by Daniel MacIvor, who goes very light on the existential despair, for a Canadian filmmaker.

It has Paul Gross looking nearly as unattractive as is possible when you are Paul Gross, who gets to say "Mark Twain also said that faith is believing something you know isn't true. You know what I have faith in? That you're a good man. Deep down."

It has Callum Keith Rennie, which is why I watched it, but not why I'm recommending it. Callum Keith Rennie has been in lots of bad movies and you don't see me recommending them, do you? All right then.

It's sad and sweet and funny, and morally complex, and humane: Nobody gets punished. Not Taylor, not Irene, not even the Mayor. They don't get the evil things they wanted, but they don't get turned into scapegoats themselves, because everyone does evil but no-one is irredeemable.

And if you watch it, then you can read there's a warm town in the shadow of you.

Comments

[snippy]

I would like to hang out with you.

[boxofdelights]

Yay! Right now I'm thinking end of January but it depends mostly on the kid's school schedule and when/whether there will be construction going on in my house, so I can't make good predictions yet about how much that might slip.

[amaebi]

I always like hanging out with you, and look forward to doing so tomorrow. :)

[amaebi]

And that movie sounds interesting. I was going to say Great, but then realized how much I lack data. I love the bottom lines you indicate, though. :D

[sasha_feather]

Oooh, thanks for the rec! That is a great insight about the movie, and no doubt why I loved it. It's a movie that really believes in people.

[boxofdelights]

I love how well spuffyduds used the metaphor of Dan not fitting in, trying to make himself smaller.

[wild_irises]

Come through the Bay Area on the way to or from Portland?

[beaq.livejournal.com]

I would like to see you (and N).

[snippy]

We could meet at my apartment! Offering, not obligatory.

[boxofdelights]

I could take the train to Seattle! If I come for more than a few days, which I might, if there's construction going on in my house at the time.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

OK, let's see what happens. There's plenty of Portland peeps I'd also like to see, but you here would be fab.