Media

Bunch of random stuff I liked this month: * A huge inspiration: as the title says, “An 81 year old Commodore Amiga Artist” … And she bought it for the first time 30 years ago! * A paean to text adv…

Some random links from last month: * I read less news and more long-form articles these days, so here are a couple of the more politically-oriented ones that I found insightful:- “Why we’re underest…

Meta note: decided to change the continuing title here from “Media Summary”, which made sense to me when I first started it in 2016 but just sounds a bit odd now. So, some stuff I read last month tha…

Some interesting links for the month: * Apparently, millenials “hate Capitalism” * My “long read” pick of the month: Lapham’s Quarterly has an article called The Ghost and the Princess, discussion…

Some interesting links for the month: * Opening with a L. A. Review post on Celebrity Warfare, with this quote: “I understood the mood of depression which had lain over the convention, because fina…

Some interesting links for the month: * Dan Brown’s new book came out, but unlike before, this time I just added it to the end of a long reading list. In lieu, this interview. * A niche link, ignor…

 Some interesting links for the month: * This right here is just … one of those things I can’t believe I hadn’t seen yet: a “breaking the fourth wall” sketch on Saturday Night Live about “The last…

Some interesting links for this month: * To start with, a great clip from Moby Dick (the 1956 movie with Gregory Peck) * A story with a self-descriptive headline: “When Silicon Valley Took Over Jou…

Some interesting links from the last month: * “Adam’s Calendar”: could be the world’s oldest megalithic site (so, what’s not to like?) * An interesting intersection of H. P. Lovecraft and J. G. Bal…

Random stuff from last month: * The SpaceX launch happened * There was this thing called the “Fyre Festival” which imploded and yielded immense parody (a leaked pitch deck featured tons of groan-wo…

* There are such things as Paleoburrows, dug by “mega fauna” in the past. “So if a 90-pound animal living today digs a 16-inch by 20-foot borrow, what would dig one five feet wide and 250 feet long?…

Random stuff read online last month: * The story of the guys who created Superman (Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) is … dramatic (also, Superman as initially conceived, was actually a villain). * The…