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Weekly Paint Progress: 7/2/2026

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Review: Charming movie
I know everyone has probably already seen The Sheep Detectives, but if you have not, you should. It’s a sweet, gentle movie about sheep trauma. And … justice. It’s a little distracting when one is compelled to work out the nearly-familiar famous actor’s voices with the sheep they play, so I would recommend scanning the…
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TWIL: Tallow
Beef tallow is a conservative dog-whistle! Who knew? One of the delights of our trip to England in 1994 was that the London MacDonald’s served Hot Apple pies deep fried in beef tallow, even after the U.S. McDonald’s had switched to pitiful smooth baked pies without the bubbly crust. Everyone seemed to abandon tallow in…
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Dermatology doppleganger
I find myself again in the triple-witching month when the six-month doctor’s visits coincide with the yearly doctor’s visits and I see multiple specialists in a short period of time. It’s worse if I count in Gary’s doctor visits. Wednesday was a double-visit day. The dentist let me know my teeth were not perfectly straight,…
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Weekly Paint Progress: 6/25/2026

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Review: Outrageous
This is a British show about the Mitford sisters. These siblings were in part known for their spouses or cousins (Guinness, Churchill, Duke of Devonshire), and in part known for their politics (Communist, Nazi, Fascist), and then for their novels and autobiographies. There are seven of them. They look distinctive, thank God. It’s not like…
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Opera Review: Streetcar Named Desire
I’ve got your TL;DR here for you right here: we left at intermission. Why, you ask? So, Anne and I discussed it at the intermission and we agreed we were not keen on seeing the next act when Stanley rapes Blanche, especially given there’d already been a really explicit thrusting sex scene with Stella. Plus,…
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Pre-opera: Streetcar Named Desire
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TWIL: Sneezing/”Snatiation”
