Just Pillows
Learning in public, slowly
Clumsiness
Note to self: Notion of clumsiness could be interesting to unpack. I’ve read a lot about moral luck and agency the last couple of years. In the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about agency as it related to measures of financial capital and social capital. And how agency has a limit with both personal…
Not everyone is Catholic
RIP Pope Francis. This chart jumped out at me. I went to Catholic school until I was 22/23. Very easy for me to forget that not everyone is Catholic. Very easy for me to forget that the south is not Catholic (despite Flannery O’Connor). Did not know NJ, CT, and RI were such papist strongholds.
What are you doing on your night shift?
Enjoyed this interview with Cormac McCarthy (Couldn’t Care Less). How do you assign good work to your nigh shift? The night shift you know – you know you’re asleep and it’s busy working away. Well how does it do that it doesn’t have a pencil and paper it has to keep everything in mind. All…
Medallions Everywhere All at Once
Random idea & question: Lots of things are similar to the taxi medallion system and are medallions systems ever good? Probably not but fun to think through! My knowledge of the tax medallion system starts and ends with knowing that ride sharing disrupted it. I was wondering what the current consensus view was on Uber/Lyft…
Barry Lyndon: Innovating and Copying
Great work requires innovating and copying. Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (the 1975 three hour costume drama) demonstrates this well. Barry Lyndon is a classic in the Mark Twain sense that everybody wants to have read watched it and nobody wants to read watch it. It is the sort of three hour movie that compels you…
[movie] Cairo Station (1958)
I checked out Youssef Chahine’s 1958 Cairo Station as part of Filmspotting’s African Cinema Marathon. [Link to the movie on youtube here]. “In this beautiful classic film, Cairo’s main railroad station is used to represent all of Egyptian society. Youssef Chahine received international recognition when this masterpiece of sexuality and repression among society’s marginalized.” This…
[album] Space Echo – The Mystery Behind the Cosmic Sound of Cabo Verde Finally Revealed!
Take a look at the below album description (via Bandcamp). It’s hard to not enjoy this album (also on Spotify) with that kid of an introduction. Super cool. It is perfect groove while cooking music and/or something that belongs on the GOAT Spotify playlist. It also made me finally click through to investigate the backstory…
Some are red, and some are blue.
Just when I thought I knew all there was to know about passports I learn that the UN has passports. Red (diplomatic) and blue (service) ones! Country code is UNO. My desire for one is !!! USA should consider different colored passports sort of like airline status programs so people can flash there platinum passports.…
[album] Alabaster dePlume, Come With Fierce Grace
What a name for a musician poet (first last). I want the lyrics to Broken Again… https://alabasterdeplume.bandcamp.com/album/come-with-fierce-grace When we are boldly and sincerely requested to be ourselves – whoever we may be – we can, in response to one-another, naturally create things that no-one could have ever specifically demanded we deliver. In order to record…
[album] Noname, Sundial
I mean this album doesn’t need my praise but wow is it fun. Fun, groovy, lines that catch you while making your head bop. Telefone and Room 25 still rock too plus Tiny Desk!! Her “scramble think” really sings.
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