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Feb. 22nd, 2014 10:15 pmI picked up what I thought was a cigar case at an estate sale a while back. I gathered it was for cigars because it contained what appeared to be three stoppered test-tube shaped glass containers. Upon taking a closer look at it, though, the stoppers are actually screw-on caps, and so it's not really feasible to use these glass containers to house cigars, because the glass narrows near the open end of the tube to accommodate the cap.
Exit the idea of a cigar case, to make way for what appears to be a case for three one-ounce portions of liquid. And while liquid is liquid, the arrangement of the parts to this whole suggest it is intended to be used for alcoholic liquids, such as bourbon, or tequila.
Hmmm.
* * * I stumbled into a "Hulu original series" series a couple of weeks ago, called The Bridge. It is a 10-episode Swedish crime series that starts out with a body being dumped, in the middle of the night, on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden. The case starts to challenge the responding officers immediately, because the body was dumped in such a way that half lies on the Danish side of the bridge, and half lies on the Swedish side. Then things get weird.
All of the stuff that went on, episode by episode, was compelling enough to keep me watching through to the end, but now that the story has been told, I feel a little the way I do after reading a James Ellroy story. The world, as it turns out, is a mean, dirty place, things don't work out more often than they do, and even the people we look to as the potential heroes of the tale have feet of clay. Perhaps the only dot of sanity in the landscape is an investigator who is driven by duty and by the rules, and appears completely oblivious of the myriad little conventions that lubricate social intercourse among humans.
The series description proclaimed this to be "season 1." Will there be a "season 2"? I don't know, but it will take some pretty incredible writing to pull it off.
Cheers...
Exit the idea of a cigar case, to make way for what appears to be a case for three one-ounce portions of liquid. And while liquid is liquid, the arrangement of the parts to this whole suggest it is intended to be used for alcoholic liquids, such as bourbon, or tequila.
Hmmm.
All of the stuff that went on, episode by episode, was compelling enough to keep me watching through to the end, but now that the story has been told, I feel a little the way I do after reading a James Ellroy story. The world, as it turns out, is a mean, dirty place, things don't work out more often than they do, and even the people we look to as the potential heroes of the tale have feet of clay. Perhaps the only dot of sanity in the landscape is an investigator who is driven by duty and by the rules, and appears completely oblivious of the myriad little conventions that lubricate social intercourse among humans.
The series description proclaimed this to be "season 1." Will there be a "season 2"? I don't know, but it will take some pretty incredible writing to pull it off.
Cheers...
