The 70s

 

Blondie and Debbie's runaway cat...

I know a girl from a lonely street 

Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet 

Dry your eyes, Sunday girl 

Hey, I saw your guy with a different girl 

Looks like he's in another world 

Run and hide, Sunday girl 

Hurry up, hurry up and wait 

I stay away all week and still I wait 

I got the blues, please come see 

What your loving means to me 

 She can't catch up with the working crowd 

The weekend mood and she's feeling proud 

Live in dreams, Sunday girl 

"Baby, I would like to go out tonight 

If I go with you my folks'll get uptight" 

Stay at home, Sunday girl 

Oooh oooh oooh 

Hé, j'ai vu ton mec avec une autre fille 

Il semblait dans un autre monde 

Cours te cacher Sunday girl 

Quand je t'ai revu l'été j'ai décidé 

Si ton amour était pareil au mien, 

Je pourrais être Sunday girl 

Dépêche-toi, dépêche-toi et attends 

Toute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attends 

J'ai le cafard, je t'en prie viens voir 

Ce que ton amour représente pour moi 

Dépêche-toi, dépêche-toi et attends 

Toute la semaine absent et pourtant j'attends 

J'ai le cafard, je t'en prie viens voir 

Ce que ton amour représente pour moi 

I got the blues

 

Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up and wait 

Hurry up, please come see 

What'cha do to me

 

Short Stories by Ellis Peters

Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers!

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From Goodreads

A hitchhiker is caught in a murderous web.

 His whole life, William Banks has been trying to escape his mother, who wants desperately for him to become a lawyer. Banks wants to paint, and when he gets the opportunity to attend art school in the next county, he jumps at the chance. It’s only forty miles, but it’s a start.

Getting to class, however, will be a deadly proposition. On his way there, Banks is picked up by Alf, a down-on-his-luck crook who has dreamed up a plan involving a fire, a burned body, and a dead hitchhiker. By all rights, Banks shouldn’t live to see morning, but a stroke of luck—and a very helpful village girl—help him escape death without his ever knowing he was in danger. Caught up in a bizarre case of missing identity, Banks must think quickly to save his own life—once he finally realizes someone is trying to kill him.

First Published January 1, 1976

This novelette is more of an adventure with a bit of comedy. It has a little mystery and lots of dead [bad] characters. The women in this short story are more prominent specially the wife of the bank robber. She is formidable both physically and mentally. The setting is 1970s but she wears a 60s bouffant hairstyle, think Amy Winehouse. The wig (hair extensions) adds 4 inches to her height and when she removes it for the night, it sits on the dresser looking like a Pekinese. LOL

60s bouffant hair style

The Assize of the Dying

Aunt Helen

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In The Assize of The Dying, a defendant in an English courtroom is sentenced to death for a terrible slaying he insists he did not commit. Rising to his feet, Louis Stevenson places a medieval curse on the prosecutor, the judge, the jury foreman, and the actual killer—the four men responsible for his fate. Profoundly shaken by the condemned prisoner’s words, a young couple looking on believes Stevenson’s declaration of innocence. And their determination to uncover the truth only intensifies when two more deaths follow in quick succession.

In Aunt Helen, the seemingly civilized residents of a stately English country house keep secrets about love, marriage, adulthood, and desire hidden behind closed doors—until the “perfect murder” threatens to expose them.

First published in 1971 

In The Assize of the Dying, there is a supernatural element, sort of, when the falsely accused hexed the judge, prosecutor, jury foreman, and the killer during the assize that if he dies in jail, all four will also die. He killed himself and all four people he cursed died one by one. There is a contrived romance in the novelette. 

In Aunt Helen, I guessed who the villain is right away. 

Most Loving Mere Folly

First published January 1, 1953 under her real name Edith Pargeter

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A pair of artists is undone by jealousy and despair on the outskirts of London

In a forgotten suburb of London recently leveled by German bombs, an artists’ colony has taken root. Theo Freeland spent the war painting, studiously avoiding danger, while his wife, Suspiria, made pottery during the day and drove ambulances at night. But now the war is over, and Theo spends his time drinking himself into a stupor while Suspiria tolerates him as best she can. She has her work, and that’s enough. After all, she and Theo are promised to each other—till death do they part. Death, as it happens, is right around the corner.

Suspiria’s life changes forever the night her husband is helped home by Dennis Forbes, a strapping young mechanic who can’t take his eyes off the drunkard’s wife. When Theo is later found poisoned, and Suspiria claims Dennis as her own, the village turns on them. But the real tragedy is yet to come.

Suspiria at 36 is 14 years older than Dennis and she is already married. Still, they fall in love a la Vronsky and Anna.. Expect tragic outcome. Poor Karenin, I mean Theo. 

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Ellis Peters, the author of the Brother Cadfael mystery novels set during the medieval period, is the penname of Edith Pargeter. She is my favoritest author and her The Heaven Tree Trilogy sits at Number One on my favorites fiction books list.

Beauty And Mr. Romantic

 

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff

Park Do-Ra (Im Soo-Hyang) is an A-list actress, but a case causes her to fall to the bottom. Go Pil-Seung (Ji Hyun-Woo) is a rookie drama series PD. He falls in love with Park Do-Ra and he tries to bring her back to the top.

My weekend might get busy again watching this new 50 episode Korean drama starting on March 23. The queen of Korean revenge dramas Im Soo-Hyang stars so I have to watch her in a romcom series. I hope there won't be any revenge and the writer doesn't drag the story or add the ever annoying amnesia.

Literal title is Beauty and the Devoted. Alternate title on drama websites is Beauty And The Pure Guy.

The Signal

tags: drama, German, Netflix, pseudo sci-fi 

Goose egg🥚

The Signal: Woke In Space 

I just wasted more than 4 hours on this nonsense. It was made to spew wokeness. It has no entertainment value. The writer made up a ridiculous nonstory mainly to promote kumbaya We Are The World stupid idiotic nonsense with some "they are so greedy" and "we should stop war" without any context or back story. 

The female lead character said such dialogue but they were never discussed before or after EVER. What? Did I miss something? It was frustrating. 

The script is utterly bad and so is the acting. The woman chosen to be on board the ISS looked like she was really high on something. The program funded by an evil billionaire to let 2 civilians to board the ISS for some experiment chose a woman who is a smoker, takes drugs, has psychological problems, and hallucinates. Great! Sheesh. What could go wrong?

She is so stupid for not recognizing the voice she picked up from space which is the voice of Carl Sagan's son in Voyager 1 saying "Hello". She thought it was communication from aliens. What a moron! Her equally ignorant or maybe evil partner prevented her from telling the real astronauts who would have told them it is from Voyager. They could have prevented their murder by the evil benefactor. But they are stupid so they deserve what they got. 

Avoid it. I watched so you don't have to.