Last week there was one absolutely gorgeous summer day. Blue skies with puffy white clouds, hot but with low humidity. And on that day I was able to take my son to the beach, and to Sandcastle for afternoon snacks. Saturday the weather wasn’t so lovely. It was all rain and scary skies with wall clouds but that didn’t stop the magic. I had the honor of photographing the wedding of two absolutely lovely friends. I did, however, skip the rain-filled Northern Spark Festival afterward. First time I’ve missed it! Sad trombone. Sunday was Father’s Day/our annual shared birthday celebration. He will be 70 next week, on our shared birthday, when I turn a different and not terribly significant age. This week we’ve got lots of prep to do before my son begins summering with his other grandparents. We’re going to be apart an entire month! The longest ever. But I will be flying to Seattle at the end of it to meet him and hang out for a few days before flying us home. That will be fun.
Five good things for this Monday:
- Recently HBO partnered with Amazon Prime so our household has access to even more content (not that we need it). One thing we’ve discovered - Christopher Guest’s mockumentary series Family Tree. That man is the KING of awkward. But it is compelling. The highlight, for us, has been ventriloquist Nina Conti. I never thought I’d be writing anything favorable about a ventriloquist but she’s an amazing comedian. Last night we watched the documentary she made, Her Master’s Voice, on Netflix. ‘I feel it’s not in my film how much I miss Ken‘ - The ventriloquist on her life with dummies and the film that pays tribute to her mentor and former lover, the late Ken Campbell
- My son and I got a kick out of this: Revel in Ghostbusters trivia with this new and fascinating infographic
- A nice piece about how awesome my workplace family is. Empowering creativity: “For Clockwork Active Media, focusing on respect, relationships, and interaction has paid off” - and that ties niecely into this New York Times piece: “You Don’t Have to Hate Your Job“
- “It has been nearly a decade since new stories in the Star Trek universe have been produced for the small screen, but we might be getting close to a revival of this storied franchise courtesy of Netflix.” Huh. In similar news, The Powerpuff Girls to Return with New Series in 2016 on Cartoon Network. YES.
- We absolutely adored Toronto when we were there last summer. And this makes me love it even more: Superheroes Are On Neighborhood Watch In Toronto
The fine folks at Thrillist have rounded up every single outdoor movie in the Twin Cities (122!) and created this 2014 outdoor movie master calendar, organized by date. Unfortunately it’s raining again now and likely to be raining for the rest of the week. I was hoping to get to at least one of these with my son before he leaves town. But since we moved into our new place/school ended he rarely wants to leave at all. Teenagers.
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