The Cheery Orchard

What’s on my mind to talk to you about today is so obvious as to be mansplaining, but it’s also happy and lately I think I’ve been so focused on writing issues and writing problems that I’ve been a bit grumpy. So let me say with a very cheery heart that watching “Yes, Minister” from the 1980s has shown me that everything comes around again and nothing changes. Wait, no, that’s miserable. Let me try again. Right now I really want to see “Coyote vs Acme”. I also want to see “Pressure” that I read the play script a few months ago. And I also really want to be able to tell a friend that okay, yes, I went to see “The Odyssey” on your insistence and it was good/bad/indifferent* *delete as applicable. I haven’t seen any of these, but the point is that they are three films in cinemas that I want to see. Well, two. That friend says that seeing Odyssey is practically a cultural imperative these days and I’ve argued back that I have no culture, but she isn’t having any of it. I’ve promised to…