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Super(b) Cinema
Two videos I watched almost back-to-back from @wolfcrow (Sareesh Sudhakaran) about Superman (1978) and The Sound of Music rose above all the angst and sensationalism with which the various social algorithms were jamming my recs and feeds with. They’re part of Sudhakaran’s series of videos discussing the technical reasons why some classic films are still…
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Yacht Funk
Another music post? Fine. In searching for live Michael McDonald performances—as you do—and almost missed this. The band almost casually spins out an adept performance that is probably now my favorite version of the song: The Doobie Brothers – It Keeps You Runnin’ (1977)live in Chicagohttps://youtu.be/t45QGRSXS1I Everything about it is great, from Michael nailing every…
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The One True Cult
For various weird reasons, I had a compulsion to listen to the ‘official’ 1980 playlists on Apple Music, specifically the Alternative Hits. But it was fun to careen through them and I punched up the Rock and Pop lists to get a sense of the rest of the year’s flavors. Despite Apple’s playlists being generally…
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Now Year’s Eve
Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer of comics and dispenser of wisdom and motivational ass-kicking via the—what’s a term for less-than-infamous?—subfamous text group #BGSDlist, sent out a query for how we were planning to spend Liminal Week: the Most Disorienting Time of the Year. Technically, the year begins anew at the solstice, but nobody pays attention to…
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Tech Bro Insights
In the name of keeping up with what’s happening in the tech industry—and I’ll admit that “technology” seems rather ridiculously broad as a category to lump it all into a single industry, but here we are—I wanted to note a couple of insightful and forthright works that have helped deepen my understanding. And also firmed…
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It’s the Artist, Not the Tools (so much)
It’s a trope, a cliche, an idiom even, that expensive tools don’t make the work better by themselves, but in the hands of a pro—read: experienced, or ‘master’—they can work wonders. I can think of few groups where the argument over the worth or quality of the tools is fiercer and more divisive than among…
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National Poetry Month
There’s finally a new newsletter going out. As long as it’s been since I wrote a newsletter, though, I think it’s even longer since I wrote a poem. April is a change month, I guess. Outgrowth Endlessly, endlessly, routing our hearts through our heads in concert,rhythms both natural and constructed.There’s the pounding and hammeringthat drives…
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Linkdump for the Garden
In the spirit of making the site more a digital garden than a blog, I collected a handful of the ridiculous number of videos I rammed into my brain the past week and seemed worthy of keeping around. Loosely grouped, they’re in these topics: Gaming Quintin Smith of the tabletop game review channel Shut Up…
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Cory Doctorow at Powell’s
I had to race downtown after an exhausting day the minute I got off work to make it to Powell’s Books, and I was late for the start. Cory Doctorow is in the middle of a book tour for his novel The Bezzle, and he had already started a short lecture when I arrived in…