THE KILLING

For the last few weeks Moira and I have been watching the fascinating Danish TV series The Killing.  It's about two mismatched detectives investigating a teenage girl's murder and one of them suspects a serial killer... It's also about the girl's family and a politician who gets entangled in the case.  Of course it's grim, but it has a lot of funny touches too. (There was an American version, but Moira says it isn't as good.) We're watching it through topic.com , a streaming channel with a lot of European stuff.

A couple of weeks ago I saw Francis Coppola's The Godfather yet again, at the Carleton.  The scene where Al Pacino talks to his father Marlon Brando in the hospital reminded me of talking to my own father in his last days two years ago. (I'm now wearing his old jacket, I guess to be closer to him.) Then I went and ate the same Chinese food from the same place where I got it after seeing The Godfather Part II three years ago!

Last week my book club discussed Breakfast of Champions.  I was ready to quit if nobody showed up, but there were a few people after all.  For our next book, I thought of doing Les Miserables, long enough for two sessions, then I came to my senses and chose Hans Christian Andersen's stories instead.

This week my History Meetup is discussing the Moghuls, so I've been reading Diana and Michael Preston's Taj Mahal.  For next month, I think we'll discuss the Age of "Discovery."

I've been talking to women over 50 on the dating site ourtime.com .  I've been getting better about starting conversations, but I'm still a bit shy about asking them out.  The other week there was some computer glitch and my subscription got terminated, and I couldn't restore it.  I've been thinking of trying Elite Singles next...