{"id":13391,"date":"2026-09-20T00:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=13391"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:34:50","slug":"up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/up-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am writing this in my seat on the Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong.
\nAccording to the flight map, we\u2019re currently somewhere over Central Europe. The nearest town or city is Oradea, I wonder what country that\u2019s in?<\/p>\n

We are being served lunch at the moment. I\u2019ve gone to the trouble of logging onto the WiFi before eating my wonton soup, to tell you about the film I just watched which could be the best film I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s called The Life of Chuck, starring Tom Hiddleston, based on a short story by Stephen King. It\u2019s got everything you might want in a movie: the apocalypse, time loops, explorations of non duality, and kick ass dance numbers. And <\/em>it\u2019s got Luke Skywalker in it. Need I say more? Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Photo to come once we land (the wifi isn\u2019t that good).<\/p>\n

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ps. I\u2019m reliably informed by my son in law who is a film buff that this is not a new film at all and in fact crashed and burned at the box office when it was released. Very disappointed in you all. At least he liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am writing this in my seat on the Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-3tZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8991,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/ticketed\/","url_meta":{"origin":13391,"position":0},"title":"Ticketed","author":"Interloper11","date":"June 13, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Just clearing out my bag of all the French Film Festival tickets that I\u2019ve accumulated over the last week. 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