Good morning, friends! If you’ve followed along with my last couple of posts, you know I started off the week with a power outage, and am now ending it with a cold. In between I sneezed a lot, and re-bought the entire contents of my refrigerator. Every part of my body aches today, but my heart aches the most for Ottawa’s small business owners and restaurateurs – anyone who deals in perishable goods, really – who lost tens of thousands of dollars in spoiled stock over the weekend. Food waste makes me feel punchy; that we were all, to various degrees, subjected to this little (or not so little) indecency is just compounding my poor, sickly mood. It’s been a weird week.
Today’s Fall Fun Friday prompt – that’s the little blogging collective I’m part of – was to discuss the books, movies and television programs you’re anticipating this Fall. I’m pretty well ride-or-die for only one show, and that’s The Good Place, which premiered last night (no spoilers, please, it’s sitting on Apple TV waiting for one sneeze-free hour!) Aside from that, I’m looking forward to Brooklyn 9-9’s move to NBC (their Halloween episodes are wonderful, and build off the previous seasons’ episodes, if you’re into that kind of tightly knit continuity, which I am.) I’ve got one more episode of Castle Rock to tackle, if I can just get over the “WHAT IN SWEET, FROSTING-COVERED HELL IS GOING ON HERE?” of it all (what’s going on is I could stare at Bill Skarsgard’s cut glass cheekbones and giant, wounded eyes all. day. long, and yes, I’m totally that pervy old lady; my favourite headline about the guy is from a Mashable article titled “It’s not Bill Skarsgard’s fault that he looks like hot Satan,” heh.)
On the cinema side of things, I’m quite pumped for Wreck-It Ralph 2; Vanellope Von Schweetz is a mouthy little heroine of mine. Hmm, that’s about it for movies, or at least new movies. If we’re talking the things I watch every Fall and Halloween, we could be here for a while (The Nightmare Before Christmas, of course, Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows, a weird new obsession with Hocus Pocus because I can’t get away from it at Disney.)
As for books, get back to me when I’ve finished Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin, a dense (in terms of writing and subject matter) examination of the collapse and subsequent bailout of the American banking industry in 2008. I won’t be enjoying anything until I have that craven lot of greedy ghouls out of my head. It’s been an incredibly frustrating and eye-opening read.
My blogging friends Jay of The Scented Library and Julie of The Redolent Mermaid are sure to have some great recommendations of their own, so I’d implore – implore! – you to pop on over and check out their autumn picks.
And now I’m going back to bed with a box of tissues.
Finger Candy 
Hope your cold doesn’t linger, that’s no way to enjoy fall. My husband was severely ill last week and I don’t know how I escaped it.
Too Big To Fail, wow, good luck with that, lol. Eye-opening certainly, but that can’t be a feel-good read. Unless it’s PBS Masterpiece Theatre, I’m perpetually behind on the best shows but it’s to the point now that missing The Good Place would be considered criminal. An uplifting escape sounds fun, but you do have me intrigued for Castle Rock, well, satan would be hot, wouldn’t he?.
Thank you, but she’s lingering. This cold has been a right prick, let me tell you, and my mom has just picked it up now, too. Super swell!
Also, just Google Bill Skarsgard (hot Satan.) You can thank me later. Come join me in pervy old ladydom.
Also, of course Satan would be hot. You also know Hell has the best BBQ.