An interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game
to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances...
Several things (a heat wave, a flight that was delayed 7+ hours, a very special 1 year old’s birthday) have resulted in this week’s missive becoming more of a bullet-pointed list. Please enjoy the round-up, more next week!
“Dreaming is a safe space, a time to try things out and retune or debug your body.”
Nonagenarian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has completed fifty-six films, and is working on her next two.
Who goes Nazi? a 1941 essay by American journalist Dorothy Thompson, as relevant as ever.
“At first, I would rewatch “In the Mood for Love” just to luxuriate in its ambience: the vibe is compelling enough. But my reading of the film’s details changed as I got older.”
A mysterious golden orb that may be an egg laid by an unknown sea creature!?
The Biden administration now using a pathway called humanitarian parole to speed work permits for migrants.
The making of “Alone”, “the most genuinely perilous show on television” or according to #1 fan Sasha, an “auto-ethnography about how to survive.”
Every single word out of Ruth Gilmore’s mouth, including but not limited to: “for many people, the word abolition or abolish verb suggests an erasure, an absence, a lack, a nothing. And of course, people become disoriented, if not downright frightened by the thought that people are agitating for erasure, absence, nothingness. We are not nihilists. Abolitionists are quite the opposite in every imaginable way.”
Field trip!
What: A special preview of an upcoming episode of "America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston" (Season Two)
Where: Fort Greene Park
When: Thursday, September 14, 5:30 - 8:45pm
Till next time,
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