movies godzilla minus one - highly recommended tv or whatever we’re calling episodic streaming these days. likely with misc. other stuff thrown in. love and death (HBO/max) - the spirit of the christian 80s is strong with this one. news lately, i’ve been having a lot of discussions with folks as to where to get news. here’s what i’ve settled on to preserve my sanity and to get access to facts....
goal target: 30 - read: 05 (so far) if i were a better man, i’d do something high minded, like targeting research in a specific vein of study. i am not that man. books note, this is a running list. maus i: a survivor’s tale: my father bleeds history (art spiegelment) another graphic novel that i found lurking on one of our shelves and lo, i hadn’t read this. definitely worth all of the press that i recall from this in the 1990s....
links, etc The Love Machine | Julia Elliott | Granta bigly amusing short story about a robot’s need for lovin'
movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane too. guy ritchie has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - i watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....
goal target: 30 - read: 31 books liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) notes green earth (kim stanley robinson) notes the future of the responsible company: what we’ve learned from patagonia’s first 50 years (yvon chouinard, vincent stanley) notes the death and life of the great lakes (dan egan) notes a hacker’s mind (bruce schneier) notes shop class as soulcraft (matthew b. crawford) notes the lost cause (cory doctorow) notes a sand county almanac (aldo leopold) notes under a white sky: the nature of thefuture (elizabeth kolbert) notes number go up (zeke faux) notes blindsight (peter watts) notes the happiness curve: why life gets better after 50 (jonathon rauch) notes range: why generalists triumph in a specialized world (david eptstein) notes master of the revels (nicole galland) notes writing to learn (william zinnser) notes the resistance: digital dissent in the age of machines (joel achenbach) 2034: a novel of the next world war (ackerman, stavridis) notes numbers don’t lie (vaclav smil) notes the message (ta-nehisi coates) notes polostan (neal stephenson) notes the art of thinking (vincent ruggiero) notes amusing ourselves to death (neil postman) notes erasing history (jason stanley) notes looking at photographs (john szarkowski) the real internet architecture (zave, rexford) notes the creative act: a way of being (rick rubin) notes antarctica (kim stanley robinson) notes last entry point: stories of danger and death in the boundary waters (joe friedrichs) notes brave new world (aldous huxley) notes our posthuman future: consequences of the biotechnology revolution (francis fukuyama) notes al franken, giant of the senate (al franken) the work of art (adam moss) notes