Thursday, October 10, 2019

Sleepy Autumn Afternoons

It was still cloudy and a bit cool this morning when I got up and rolling this morning. Ran the Broadway cast album of Thoroughly Modern Millie quickly while I ate. Sutton Foster became a star as the liberated title flapper in this 2002 stage version of the film musical. My favorite of the additional numbers are "How the Other Half Lives" as Millie and Miss Dorothy describe what they hope to find in New York, the goofy Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche that introduces Millie to Trevor Grayden, and "They Don't Know" for Mrs. Mears.

Work was even quieter than it was yesterday. Other than sweeping the store shortly before I finished, I mostly alternated between gathering carts and shelving candy. It helped that the weather gradually improved throughout the morning. By the time I headed home, it was a mostly sunny and breezy autumn day.

When I got home, I changed and put on a couple of My Little Pony episodes while eating lunch. Twilight has the best of intentions when she publishes their Friendship Journals from the earlier seasons, but she and the others encounter nothing but "Fame and Misfortune." Fans fixate on every single thing Rainbow Dash does, they try to join Apple's family, laugh at every word from Pinkie, and think Rarity is selfish and Fluttershy is too shy. Twilight is upset that the Journals were taken the wrong way, until two fillies reveal that she didn't make a mistake after all.

It's a "Triple Threat" when Dragon Queen Amber and Thorax the Changeling king visit Ponyville. Spike fears they won't get along and goes out of his way to keep them apart. The Cutie Map, however, tells him he has a friendship problem...and he may have more than that when Amber becomes suspicious, Thorax defends him, and he almost starts an international incident.

Rainbow Dash is horrified when she and Pinkie learn that her favorite writer, A.K Yearling, is retiring from her "Daring Do" adventure series. Turns out she caused so much trouble in the Egyptian-esque town of Somnabula, she wants to quit. But all is not what it seems, and there may be someone committing crimes in Daring Do's name...someone who truly wants the series to end...

Despite a day that had turned beautiful and the noisy lawn mower going outside, I took a nap after lunch. I was so tired, I'd been nodding off throughout most of work. Even with the extra noise, I still slept for a good two hours.

Went into writing after I awoke. Charles rides into the spooky Sherwood Forest to find the legendary Robin Hood...but he does, indeed, find him. He turns up in the trees, aiming his bow at Charles before he shows him the pendant that the guard gave him. "Robin" leaps out of the branches and reveals himself to be Sir Richard Dawson, who was once a knight and the squire of Hogan Manor. Skutch seized his family's lands and tried to force him to work for him, but he opted to flee into the woods instead.

Broke for dinner at 6:30. Did one more Friendship Is Magic episode while eating leftovers. Zebra healer Zecora contracts a rare and incurable swamp fever while seeking a flower. Fluttershy becomes determined to find "A Health of Information" and figure out a cure, even at the cost of her own health. Twilight helps her seek the answer...and tries to point out that she needs sleep and to make sure she's ok, too.

Ended the night after a shower with Into the Woods. I go into further details on this dark live-action fantasy from Disney at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.

Into the Woods (2014)

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