🍿 Philomena (2013)
What an outstanding film! Judi Dench is superb and Steve Coogan provides a great counterpoint. I’ve loved Coogan for years, and was excited to see he produced and co-wrote. It is leaving Netflix in a week.
📚 God of Nothingness (2021) by Mark Wunderlich & Against Heaven (2022) by Kemi Alabi
I quite enjoyed the former and … worked my way through the latter.
🦹 Criminal: The Last of the Innocent (2011)
This is volume 6 in the Criminal series by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Though great, I can get burnt out on these crime stories. This one was amazing.
📺 Ted Lasso, season 2 (2021)
We watch television shows pretty slowly. Season 2 dug deep into some issues. And the twist at the end didn’t feel right to me, though watching over the course of months might have led to that confusion.
There’s homemade falafel under all of that green.
Sheet pan pancakes last night.
My Current VS Code Shortcuts
I love this message. I think it can go further. In my head is a reasonable person telling me how careful I need to be with my projects. How prepared I need to be for whatever inevitability. A lot of times I should say yes to that voice and never do it.
🍿 The Paper Tigers (2020)
For our monthly movie, a friend and I were mutually in a “let’s watch something light” place. This is certainly light. I’ll admit, though, it was just the thing and we had a good time entertaining ourselves with it.
🎵 Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, the Four Seasons (2014)
Vivaldi had never been my thing. Then I was going through old emails and was reminded that a friend had told me, “Yes, but this is different.” It’s so good.
🍿 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
I’m on the “mostly enjoyed Bo Burnham’s Inside” of history.
📚 Head On (2019) by John Scalzi
I appreciate the things Scalzi is accomplishing in this universe. This one was just a little too procedural for me.
🎵 Candid (2020) by Whitney
A lovely cover album for a Friday afternoon.
🦹 Ascender (2021)
Ascender is a fascinating series with beautiful watercolor art. I liked its predecessor, Descender, a bit more, but still very entertaining.
Does anyone else have an iCal (macOS) that is completely buggy? For years mine has: given me multiple email alerts for a single event, continued to give me a notification even if the event is email-alert-only, and loses my email-alert settings on an event (failing to alert me).
🍿 Spectre (2015)
The Daniel Craig Bond movies are always good. Maybe it was lack of sleep or impending sickness, but I was nodding off a bit during this one, however.
The story of Mark Wunderlich’s poem Cuthbert rolls along so well. I didn’t realize until the last stanza that it was a rare poem that I’ve read recently that actually has rhymes! I think it’s pretty clever to include suprising rhymes in a poem about a lamb.
For the fourth webapp I’m setting up in 2022, I’m trying Elixir and Phoenix rather than my comfortable Ruby on Rails. This is certainly a mind-bend.
🍿 Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)
Pretty decent little family movie. It had a few interesting ideas for the kids to chew on, I think.
🍿 Last Night in Soho (2021)
I love me some Edgar Wright, but I’m still not sure what I think about this one. I did love the creativity of shots in the first half. And the music was 😙👌.
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🎵 An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) by Silk Sonic
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, and Silk Sonic – seems like a perfect start to a Friday.
📚 Fish: a tap essay (2012) by Robin Sloan
What an interesting experiment. It has some things to say.
🎵 What Kinda Music (2020) by Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes
Was listening to this on repeat today.
📚 The Obelisk Gate (2016) by N. K. Jemisin
I read this with audio. It’s a book two that found my attention straying, but certainly did well in setting up an exciting conclusion (I hope).
