I know this is like, a well recognized thing, but I’ve been mainlining the Mission: Impossible movies over the last week or so and nobody sells a dead sprint quite like Tom Cruise. 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
Just giggled to myself about some particularly whimsical bit of animation in the new Readwise Reader, which is now open as a public beta. Have grown to depend on Readwise for syncing highlights of just about everything I’m reading these days, and, so far at least, Reader is very impressive.
Introduce yourself with 5 TV shows
- The Leftovers
- Halt and Catch Fire
- Battlestar Galactica
- Bob’s Burgers
- Magnum, P.I. (80s version)
…via Jarrod Blundy
Indeed.
Finished reading: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte 📚
Finished reading: Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari 📚
Finished reading: The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚
Finished reading: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚
Turned onto this by a Vox article the other day and it did not disappoint. Looking forward to more in the series.
Finished reading: Dead Astronauts: A Novel (Borne) by Jeff VanderMeer 📚
Finished reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚
Felt like a little bit of a slog through some of the (long) middle section, but the end was poignant, fitting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Coming into the season, expectations were about as low as I can remember (and that’s really saying something with this team). Maybe because of that, these first few weeks have been a pleasant surprise. Let’s go Bucs. ⚾️🏴☠️
🍿Watched Raya and the Last Dragon last night as a treat for the boy. Fun! Balked initially at the price of premiere plus access, but happy for the novel experience.
The saddest pumpkin patch.
Behold: Punkin Marie (right) and Punkin Marie 2.
💡: Letterheads: social media and the end of discourse by Sarah Jeong
Day 8: contrast.
“I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That kid’s a true believer. We’ve got to put the thumb on the scale for the old Weeze.' “
Brian Hiatt at Rolling Stone: “The Strange Birth and Near Death of Weezer”
The things we do for Rock 'n Roll...
“I shit in a bag,” he reveals, with a hint of pride. “Because I had to go! And there was nowhere to go. And I’m convinced the gods of rock said, ‘That kid’s a true believer. We’ve got to put the thumb on the scale for the old Weeze.' “
Brian Hiatt at Rolling Stone: “The Strange Birth and Near Death of Weezer”