Kenobi Finale
Swearengen’s Blue Willow
I collect coffee cups. I’ve been binging HBO’s Deadwood (again) and noticed the cup from which Al drank his coffee. The anniversary of the first airing of Deadwood The Movie is coming up so it looks like I’ll be adding another cup to my collection. But it must be an exact match or it just won’t do.
Another reason for wanting this cup is because my Grandmother had a complete set of Blue Willow dishes on which she’d serve Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners many decades ago.
Cutting the Cord
I connected a ClearStream 2Max antenna to an HDHomeRun Flex Quatro HDTV tuner which was then connected to the home network. From there, a dedicated PC running Plex acts as a media server and DVR. Flawless perfection. So long DirecTV!
2021, The Year’s Bingings
These are the television series I’ve binged, in their entirety, this year. As in 2020, I had a lot of free time on my hands.
Star Trek The Original Series
Star Trek Discovery
Star Trek Picard
Deadwood (plus Deadwood The Movie)
Game of Thrones
Downton Abbey (plus Downton Abbey The Movie)
True Blood
Malcolm in the Middle
M*A*S*H (plus the original movie)
Raising Hope
The Mandalorian
Band of Brothers (twice)
My Name is Earl
3rd Rock from the Sun
Gunsmoke (seasons 1-8. To be continued into 2022)
It Took Some Convincing, But…
Binging HBO’s Deadwood (Again)
Binging Deadwood from start to finish has become a yearly tradition (sometimes twice) before the anniversary of the movie’s release. This year, I managed to blaze my way through all three season (36 episodes), then the movie, in 5 days.
Another tradition is to watch Deadwood The Movie on the anniversary weekend of its original release (May 31, 2019) while eating a dinner of “toast and eggs or toast and bacon”. Fans of the series will know what that’s all about. And of course, the canned peaches…