It’s hot AF in the ATL today. Like we might have hit 100 degrees hot. So me and Banjo are staying inside under the air conditioning and binge watching a show on Starz called Vida.
I saw an ad for it on Bravo actually. I watched two half hour episodes then I got up jumped in the car and bought a bunch of beer and some wine. Then I stopped at the Mexican drive through. I ordered a bunch of random stuff. And read some of my book. El Veloz is not fast food. It’s slow food made by Mexicans. Anthony Bourdain ate at one when he was in Atlanta for his travel show. The thing is, you never get what you order. I think I might have this time. It seems I got fish tacos instead of shrimp ones. I have yet to get a shrimp taco. It doesn’t matter. Whatever you get is great.
There was some sort of heart dropping incident with my Amex. My bill was $23 dollars. Don’t judge, the chicken tacos are for Banjo. Plus this is two days of bingewatching and eating. The server told me that my card would only accept $20. So I had to pay $3 in cash. I also had a panic attack. I had to come home and check my AMEX account. Everything seemed fine but the tacos were not on there. There was a pending charge of three dollars, not twenty. It was some sort of kerfuffle on the taco stand end. I called AMEX and everything was fine with the card. But I’m still panicky.
So back to Vida. It’s about two estranged sisters who come back to East LA when their mother dies. The sisters are not close. One of the two hadn’t really spoken to her mom years. They both discover all sorts of secrets. The mom owned a building that has apartments and a bar. Oh and everyone is Mexican.
You really are going to want Mexican food when you watch, so plan for that. Lots of Mexican food porn.
And a shit ton of actual porn. You will see every cast member completely nude at some point. I’m only three episodes in. So if porn isn’t your thing, this show is not for you. Because the sex scenes are very real looking. And there are lots of them. The writing is amazing. Everyone has secrets and they are slowly coming out.
I’m going to go back to eating tacos and drinking beer with Banjo now. The site is pretty dead, so I’ll probably just do a discussion post for RHOP tonight. If that. It’s a holiday weekend. And I want to spend mine eating tacos with my dog. And watching porn.
What are you guys doing?
This is SORT OF an open forum. But please no bad news in comments. No death, no disease, no traumas of any kind. Be upbeat or be quiet. Thanks.
I am pulling crabgrass and tiny tree seedlings while you are lounging in airconditioned comfort, eating mexican food, drinking beer, and it is not fair!
I am sitting in my sister’s backyard, surrounded by smoke from the grill.
At least her husband made great potato salad.
And there is a small breeze.
I am binge watching Return to Amish.
My sister and I planted a garden last week. Everything is still alive one week later. The peppers (bell, jalapeño, and banana) are thriving…peppers of all kinds grow really well here for some reason.
I planted butternut squash and it’s looking sickly, but it was a first time experiment. Radishes and lettuce are sprouting already. Mint looks good. Tomatoes are fine so far, but they’re usually drama before the season’s over.
It’s unseasonably cold in Las Vegas, with our typical strong winds (25 mph right now). I took my dog for a 30 minute walk this morning, pulled never ending weeds from my front yard, did a little grocery shopping and I’m binge watching The Bold Type on Freeform before I take my fur baby for her 30 minute afternoon walk. It’s sort of a perfect day.
In bed early leaving for the beach tommorow around 6 AM which means up at 5 am to pray meditate bathe shave etc. All errands done today banking shopping cleaning etc Real Housewives of H20TOWN. Took myself across the street & relaxed at Gore Place for about 3 hours. Read & listened to music & wrote some more bad poetry. Tommorow I will sun bathe swim & relax with my best friend. He will probably paint. Grabbing a Lobster Roll somewhere in Cape Cod after. Already prepared a picnic lunch & baked brownies with buttercream frosting walnuts & caramel. Must get ice & pack cooler. That’s all from here. I did lots of digital decoupage i.e. INSTAGRAM / Facrbook like scrapbooking but electronic. Have a great Mexican feast dear friend xoxo Marc
I want to be you when I grow up and get a life!
I just read to this point after a day at work that I may, or may not share later…no fun, there I shared.
I’m not mad, so I would appreciate it Marc if you’d keep sharing your holiday with us!
You guys make me blush ! Should hit the beach by 930 am staying there til sunset. Will keep you posted. To all our friends hear, near or far RELAX. REVIVE. RESTORE. ???⚅⚄⚃⚂⚁⚀????
I’m not a lying in the sun kind of person – can’t handle the heat and look like a lobster if I’m not careful; however it does sound like a lovely, relaxing day.
Speaking of lobster, I would love to go back to New England and have a genuine lobster roll. They sound delicious. The closest I ever get to really indulging myself with seafood it’s when I go to Costco and buy two of their Dungeness crabs. I go straight home, lay newspaper on my dining room table, get out my little crab destruction tools and go to town.
Anyway, Marc, have a wonderful day, and enjoy every bite of that succulent lobster roll.
I thought I was all caught up on Killing Eve! It looks like I forgot to watch last week’s episode. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? I remember pulling photos. I guess I just forgot to watch! Argh. Maybe a double recap tomorrow.
Between the oppressive heat, the beer, and the bellyful of tacos. I’m fading fast. 🙂 Besides. I AM TAKING THE NIGHT OFF!
Good for you! But hurry the fuck up!
I don’t appreciate you whining about a recap here there and everywhere. GO FIND A FUCKING RECAP SOMEWHERE ELSE AND LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!
I finally got around to watching Pose. Sooooo good!
And I have started Lucifer. Which is an easy watch. I haven’t seen her onscreen yet but Maddie from Imposters is on it from the Netflix cover for the series. I look forward to her. And I love Maze.
I finally got my garden in! Every year I plant onions, tomatoes and peppers because they are healthy so I think I should be enjoying them but I really don’t, so I was finally true to myself this year and only planted peas and carrots. Yum!
We’re at a 4-year old’s birthday party today and I’m realizing I’m old. Is it me or do children these days have no home training? Yikes! No answers needed — just my observation. We have another 20 minutes of this fun and then we’re out of here for cocktails while watching Aladdin at Loews Theatre in the big cushy seats. Yippee!
Happy Safe Memorial Day, everyone! TT, enjoy your Mexican food feast and kisses to Banjo ?? Stay cool!
Lol. Try being a teacher. Happy Memorial Day!
Co-sign. I lived and taught in the ghetto. There’s a little bit of everything racewise. The Mexican kids were PERFECT KIDS. Very respectful. Even their parents seemed to think I was lying about how good they were.
Those same kids in the grocery store or Target? LIVING TERRORS.
The rest of them were manageable in the class room. I have a deadly teacher glare, plus my class was always having fun.
So true!
Hi TT! I binged both seasons of Vida after I heard the creator on a podcast. I was intrigued. I grew up and still live in El Paso and i wanted to see it. What did you think?
Spent the day shooting amazing photos of the architecture in “Old Louisville”. Drove 120 miles home, thunderstorms all around…now Mia (my beagle mix I broke out of death row Friday) are watching unheard of Rom-coms on Tubi TV. Mia is munching on canine bacon treats (smells amazing). Me? I’m downing Dos Equis Ambers, scarfing down homemade jalapeno & cheese nachos, crying a bit (I miss the love of my life, she decided a year ago it wasn’t working). So me & Mia. A quite handsome Beagle mix, happy to have a new home, and I’m happy for her.
That’s such a sweet comment. Hope you and your lucky little Mia have many years of mutual admiration together.
I’m crammed onto a twin bed with my 22-year-old daughter, because my air conditioner isn’t installed yet. I’m editing a novel for a guy who should NOT quit his day job. Right now I’m editing one page per every five minutes I watch of RHNY Season 6, which I have decided to grace with my binge-watching attention today. At this rate, the Countess is going to be in rehab again before I finish the editing job, and it’s due on Tuesday. But worth it, just to hear Sonja mutter to Ramona about the inequities of bedecking her 22-inch head with 28-inch hats.
I put another coat of spar urethane on my double seater Adirondack chair out on my porch. Hot as Hades and glad I’m not at the big NASCAR race at Charlotte Motor Speedway 25 minutes South. Those peeps are nuts in this heat. Just polished off a big plate of Carnitas at my favorite Mexican restaurant and headed home to watch RHOP with my 3 dogs in the AC.
My sister and her kids are at the race, I would have been there but we had a scheduling issue. It was damn hot there, but really what I am not jealous of is the ride home to CT she has to do tomorrow. I get to watch the race in bed in the AC!
It’s hot as hell here too – so we were slammed at work today. It’s Too hot on the beach, so people were shopping. Came home from work, ordered groceries from (Amazon) Prime Now (my very worst habit) and have been searching Netflix, Prime & Hulu for something to watch! Luckily I never cancelled my Starz subscription- so I’m going to start VIDA! Thanks TT! Yeah – I love a new show!
I recommend Bosch (on Prime) if you like modern day noir detective shows.
We are waiting for a tornado to hit but we are upbeat and happy about it #Moving so it’s less to pack. So very tired of the rain the last forever! Waiting for GOT how it was made tonight on HBO and going to bed early. I love fish tacos omg love love
Hot here too. Looking forward to seeing Rocketman (Elton John) movie that opens tomorrow.
Musical fantasy bio. I am on the fence about seeing it. Hope you enjoy it.
I busted my rear yesterday and today getting all kinds of yard and house stuff done. I mowed, I trimmed limbs (yes, I know it’s the wrong time of year to do that, but they were whacking me in the head when I was mowing around them), I cleaned the house, I washed my car, I transplanted some potted plants that had outgrown their pots, and I did a massive Walmart shopping trip, which was as exhausting as all the rest combined.
The upshot is that I am going to completely veg out tomorrow, and I plan to enjoy every minute because there is NOTHING from my to-do list hanging over my head! Yay! I’m going to sleep late tomorrow, get up and have some junk food, then take a nap until it’s time to eat again. If I get really ambitious, I might watch something on TV.
Had a big time with my 2 granddaughters who are both 7. They played on the slip and slide; they sang to my 84 yr old dad; they ate 8 of those cheap popsicles That come in those plastics sleeves and you buy them at the Dollar Store; they are grilled burgers and now they are watching you tube videos. Before they go to sleep we are going to read books and eat ice cream in bed?. And oh btw you made me hungry for Mexican food and I live in Texas so I am hitting that up tomorrow. ??
I’m OBSESSED with VIDA. Started watching it last night and finished the last episode this afternoon. It’s an awesome and AMAZING show. I’m Mexican and familiar with the Boyle Heights/East L.A. area so that adds to my fascination factor. Now I gotta wait till Season 3.
Starting season two now. This may be the most AMAZING show on television. Just finished season one. On to season two. If this show was on constantly I would never do anything else but watch it.
Is it filmed in the actual neighborhood?
Oooh!! I too have seen a lot of press pushing the show and was trying to decide if I should add it to my watch list.
Mexican food porn? Check!
Actual porn? Check!
TT recommends it? Check!
Lesbian porn? Well that’s what the commercials are pushing. Check??
Seriously, thanks for the heads up!
Gina, I have a question for you, have you seen any of Texicanas? If so, what was your opinion?
I’ve never heard of Texicanas. Gotta go find and watch it! My dad’s family is from El Paso….so probably gonna be right up my alley.
Vida is definitely mostly filmed in the hood. I recognize a lot of the areas. Probably a mixture of downtown L.A., East L.A., Pico, etc…they all kind of blend together. Same reason why I love INSECURE….Grew up down the street from INGLEWOOD…so I KNOW the characters.?
You guys! Thanks for telling me about Vida…I needed a new show to binge, what a killer show!
I just started watching too based off TT’s recommendation, thanks a lot TT. I was planing on getting stuff done today, now not so much.
It was hot AF here today too. One of those days where the mixture of heat and humidity means all you can do is lay around and tell yourself it’s too hot to do anything. I’d still rather have this than snow, though. I spent most of my day online shopping, and spent way too much money. Everything I bought was stuff I had been watching for a while, and it was all on sale. That makes it ok, right??? There are some really good sales this weekend.
It was too hot to cook, so I ordered takeout – and I did have to leave my air conditioning to go get that. I ordered shrimp tacos too, and actually got shrimp tacos – along with fried corn. Eventually it cooled off enough outside to go for a walk, so I went for a walk through my neighborhood. Now I am eating Oreos and getting ready to open a bottle of wine. What type of wine goes best with Oreos?
Tomorrow I will put my flag out on the porch, go to a cookout in the afternoon, and take a moment to remember what the day is for. And I don’t exactly mind the day off from work. Yay for Summer!
Black Box Merlot. It pairs well with errything from breakfast to midnight snack. You’re welcome.
Dang… I don’t have any, and I don’t see it on Amazon either. Didn’t Amazon Prime used to deliver wine and beer? I could have sworn we had gotten them to deliver us wine before. I guess it’s regular in a bottle Merlot for me…
If Amazon would deliver wine and beer I’d only have to leave the house for smokes. 🙂
I was so anti boxed beer, but it is the wave of the future. Wine bottles will be something people collect 20 years from now. As is, “Wine used to come in bottles..” Black Box has won all sorts of awards.
Plus, it’s like having a pony keg of wine in the house. 🙂 Also it’s good chilled but you didn’t hear that from me. AND, if you half and half it with Hummm Mango and something kombucha, is practically a Sangria Health Drink! 🙂
But for me tonight? It’s Foster’s Oil Cans.
Black Box is good? I’ll have to compare prices to my usual go to – Boda Box. I like their Malbec and their deep red blends. Problem with Boda is that their price at Safeway fluctuates.
Boxed wine is GREAT on vacations too. I buy two for my family trip to the beach, at least. I’m the only one who drinks wine, unless some relatives come visit. They are wine snobs, but also usually bring good stuff (I splurge on a couple of
Black Box is great. I’m not really a wine snob. I like Pinot Grigio, Rose and cheap Chilean Merlots. That said, viewed boxed wine as half a step from being a cat lady with half a dozen cats and a “cat tree.” Black box wins all the awards in blind judging. Plus it’s relatively cheap. The price does fluctuate in grocery stores. But you can usually get it for under $20. That’s four regular bottles of wine.
The Merlot is my favorite. The rose is is good but it’s a bit too drinkable for me. It goes down like water. I don’t recall if I ever tried their Pinot Grigio, I probably did. I make ghetto sangria with the merlot. It goes great with kombucha. You can take the girl out of the ghetto…but… 🙂
Earlier tonight, I had to run out for a quick errand. During that time, my nearly perfect dog ate the queso. This was really good for me. Because I didn’t need to eat all that shit. BUT it had jalapenos in it. So for I don’t know how many nights i a row I’ll be up all night with the dog. He’s going to have the RING OF FIRE!
LOL at that image! Poor Banjo, please keep us updated.
Oh I love good tacos so much! I made my favorite weekend breakfast today; scrambled eggs with tons of cheese and soy chorizo from trader joes (easy to throw in the eggs and nicely spicy), and I take corn tortillas and cook them in the waffle iron, which is always on the counter. I time it perfectly so the tortillas are hot and slightly crispy when the eggs are done. Best breakfast ever. If I wasnt so lazy I would add beans and tomatoes.
It was hot upstairs but not super hot, and we got a cooling thunderstorm.
Good luck with your (potentially) gassy dog.
Banjo is never really gassy. I just think that the jalapenos coming out may be a new experience for him. He’s never had jalapenos.
I keep forgetting this is a holiday weekend. Between years of working restaurants and newspapers, then disabled/retired, I went from never having holidays to every day is a holiday, but not special.
Fortunately, I didn’t have to drive anywhere on the freeway. My garden is REALLY late, thanks to the weird NirCal weather this year. The last 10 days I’ve devoted to blending two groups of three chickens — all rescues.
Still on keto, eating Mexican salads and chicken thighs in cheeesy creamy pepper sauce. It will go perfectly with binging Vida. No cerveza ? Craving white peach Sangria.
I have been waiting for the tomato thread to report that the ultimate cheater tomato — never dug it up after last summer — has been making fruit all year. Finally getting bigger tomatoes now.
Please keep us updated on Banjo’s jalapeno “experience” – first time I have seriously laughed out loud all weekend and simultaneously felt bad for Banjo and his ring of fire. I needed that laugh, so, I am sorry, Banjo, that I laughed at your experience, but I bet that queso tasted really good too. Now, oddly, considering the topic, am hungry for Mexican food. My weekend has thus far been incredibly boring – laundry, running the dishwasher, grocery shopping, and for the big highlight, the battery went completely dead in my car BEFORE the grocery store run, it would not hold the charge after I jumped it, so my grocery run also included a trip to an auto store and spending $154 on a new car battery – happy Memorial Day weekend to me, I guess. I’m hoping to top off the evening continuing on with reading an excellent book I’ve recently started, then hopefully, since I also battle nightly insomnia, drifting peacefully off to sleep. Making homemade sloppy joes for Memorial Day, along with a homemade pasta salad, probably throw in some deviled eggs, and some chips – none of which I like nor will eat (don’t like meat, don’t like deviled eggs, don’t like mayo in this pasta salad recipe either) – mostly doing it because sloppy joes are my husband’s favorite meal (yes, total geek s quad guy-type), followed by watching what hopefully will be a Game 1 victory for the StL Blues in the Stanley Cup final series, to end this awful 49-year drought the Blues have had – and I don’t like hockey either, I’m a Cardinals baseball gal, but hey, ya gotta root for the home team having a 49-year drought, right? It’s not like I “bleed Blue”, as the hockey fans say here in The Lou, but bringing the Cup home would be sweet for this pardon the French sh*thole city. 😀 Just kidding, love The Lou (kinda/sorta). Everyone, have a wonderful Memorial Day and thank you to anyone who has served our military or who has had family who has served – yours or their service is so very much respected and appreciated! (I’m still hungry for Mexican food even after typing all this dribble too, dang it). Banjo, good luck in the backyard, if ya know what I mean – maybe Momma will give you an ice pack afterwards?
JillyAnne, I’m in the Lou too. It would be so awesome for the Blues to win The Stanley Cup. From worst to first! Unbelievable the Blues were the worst team in the NHL in January!
I’m in the Lou also. Not a big hockey fans but my brothers are. I’m caught up in the excitement. GO BLUES!!
Sorta STL, in the county by Florissant. Nice to see other STLers. Hi!
Just finished dying the front of my hair blue for tomorrow. Admin made us T-shirts last year for our Veterans (myself included) but there’s no blue on the shirt so thought I’d fix that.
According to the Navajo Times this week, we have lost all but 8 Navajo Code talkers. Please remember them in your thoughts tomorrow.
Binged “Dead to Me” off Netflix. Super fun suspenseful dramedy where every episode is a cliffhanger. Highly recommend it but don’t want to say too much about the plot to avoid spoiling anything
Dead to Me is excellent, I binged that the day it came out. Christina Appelgate is awesome and I love the writing.
I watched this movie on Prime called “Logan Lucky”…funny as hell. I don’t know how I missed it. Now I am re-watching the first season of Southern Charm and I can’t get over how much I missed the first go around and how much they have all changed. Wish I had a good Mexican place nearby. Black Box Merlot rocks and I also like it chilled in the summer.
Hey there, memyselfandi I couldn’t stop watching “Dead to Me” also! Hope there’s more to come…Happy Memorial Day to all!
Happy memorial day everyone.
Mexican food and Vida, and the day is done ✔.
(Never finished Vida cause I thought my free Starz ended, lol. I’ve been buying it for
months, lol).
I’m trapped in a car driving back across the stay from what turned out to be a pretty fun weekend. Gasp.
How’s Banjo???
*state. Shite roads.
Happy Memorial Day everyone! I’ve been deep cleaning all weekend. Gave tons away to Goodwill, clothes I’ve had since I was teenager, even. Lol
Hoping to get out for a walk later, but’s it’s currently in the low 40s and looks like rain, at least it isn’t snowing like last weekend.
Thank you so much. I haven’t been able to stop watching.
I ran out of Vida before I ran out of Mexican food. 🙁 I hope season three comes soon. That was just a brilliant series. I do need people to stop making Eddy cry. I can’t take it. I love her.
Oh and the jalapenos didn’t seem to have any ill effect on Banjo. We are laying around the house eating tacos for a second day.
I can’t wait to watch Vida based on your recommendation! I remember people used to say the same thing about Shameless and sex scenes, but it’s still one of my favorite shows.
I’m glad Banjo is okay! I remember when my old lady got into a bag of spicy chips and ate them all…I was so afraid she was going to bloat, but she never so as batted an eye.
Oh this is straight up porn. Not sex scenes. Like full on porn. There is a full on orgy on one of the episodes. I don’t know if I just got used to it, but there didn’t seem to be quiet as much in episode two.
It’s hot AF here as well.. My husband had a heat stroke staying in the garden all day Friday.. Terrifying and now he has a summer cold where he is hacking up a lung.. I think I slept about 6-8 hour since 330am Friday… I looked at the weather on my phone 7:45 p.m. last night and it said it’s still 97..
This weekend I binged What/If on Netflix. Renée Zellweger is almost unrecognizable and plays the part to perfection.
Then I went on to Netflix’ The Society. I made it half way through episode four and had to stop. It’s Lord of the Flies meets Under the Dome, both of which I found boring as hell.
Now I’m on ep 6 of Chi on Showtime, I love the show and I’ve been waiting until now to watch so I would have a bunch to binge on.
Judging by TT and all the comments I might have to put Vida up next ???
Ok, I read earlier about us needing to check out Vida and I came back here to make sure the name. I was trying to watch the latest RHBH and for some reason I am getting annoyed by it, so I am going to cut it off and start Vida. I hope I’m not going to get hooked into binging, I have sh%t to do tomorrow. I have a feeling I will be struggling. ?
I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed taking a day or two of downtime with Banjo. I’ve loved the conversation here with you guys. Thanks for keeping it upbeat. I needed this so much.
I have TWO big stories I have been holding on to until everyone gets back. I’ll probably get to them tomorrow. One will be fairly easy to get out tomorrow. The other one, I am still waiting for a bit more information on. So stay tuned and click couple extra posts for me if you have time. It’s a ghost town on holiday weekends and scares the hell out of me. 🙂
xo
~tt
We just finished “Living the Dream” a British comedy series. Interesting how the British “see” America.
Spouse and I cooked until both refrigerators were full. Made me so happy to have a bunch of meals ready for the freezer. Shrimp and grits, belgian waffles , sausage gravy, homemade ice cream. And homemade cracked ice; you whip cream and put chunks of jello into it. It’s goofy and festive.
The dogs got burgers for dinner. Our 13 year old dog, Ana, is perking up on a teaspoon of beef bone broth and kyolic (fermented garlic). Her nagging cough is better and she ran all over the forest today. The rescue poodle and our big Gingerdog keep an eye on Ana.
Ginger has 13 chicks to help care for and she is delighted. Having jobs has made her even more enjoyable.
Hoping Banjo feels ok soon. We just got over 3 poopin dogs a couple weeks back.