The good: I shaved with a new blade this morning and I’m wearing a new shirt.
The bad: I have a razor burn on my left cheek from the last time I shaved, and a blemish on my philtrum.
I resolved on Thursday to do less Facebook, because Facebook doesn’t make me feel good. I was on Facebook this weekend more than I would’ve liked, during which time I learned about three friends going through big life events.
Doing less Facebook is not easy. People who never joined made the right choice.
I’m unfollowing a lot of people I don’t feel strongly about, and leaving groups. I’m there to get updates from friends and family. That’s all.
Vacation photo, Borrego Springs, California, 2013 📷
A photo essay of classic Japanese movie monsters.
Where Western movies used animated clay figures, the Japanese used men in costumes on miniature cityscapes. Some of those cityscapes were elaborate and beautiful.
Godzilla is drawn from Japan’s lived experience at the receiving end of a nuclear bomb attack. The texture of his skin is based on the scars carried by Hiroshima survivors. Godzilla is also based on the Shinto god of destruction, “which Godzilla B-movie maker Shogo Tomiyama says operates not in service of humankind, but rather the laws of nature. ‘He totally destroys everything and then there is a rebirth,’ he says, ‘Something new and fresh can begin.” Godzilla isn’t good or bad. It just exists.
“The line of troopers walked forward, billy clubs out. They knocked Lewis to the ground and struck him on his head. He tried to get up; they hit him again with the billy club. His skull was fractured.” John Lewis Crosses Selma Bridge One Last Time
“Aggravation is an art form in his hands.” RIP Regis, my friend and companion on many a business travel hotel room morning in the 90s and 2000s.
I have an idea for a movie. An action-comedy about two cops who are partners and best friends and who bicker a lot. They are out to take down a wealthy drug dealer. There are car chases and gunfights. Their captain shouts at them.
We watched Bad Boys tonight, which we had never seen. It was the least enjoyable film I have watched all the way through.
This is a good look for me. In no way does it make me look threatening or mentally unbalanced. 📷
meet my new BFF https://t.co/4WDhx3BpZo
— Michelle 🍵💻 (@tinymwriter) July 24, 2020
More than half the people born in 1980 are over 40. My brain cannot process this information.
Velveeta vs. Microsoft.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet: The 5 most over-hyped tech devices.
Don’t be a hater – CueCat will make a comeback!
David Roth at The New Yorker: How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat: Verhoeven’ s Starship Troopers depicts “a society whose fixation on force has left it preening, idiotic, and paradoxically weak. This state manifests as endless columns of cultishly revered and supremely well-equipped violence workers who know how to do only one thing, and a culture that exists exclusively to celebrate their efforts….”
Eli Reiter at OneZero: My Bizarre Stint As an Amazon Reviewer for Hire
I saw this lost dog sign on my walk yesterday. I hope they find the little guy. He looks sad. 📷
Lake Murray from Cowles Mountain, five miles from home, 2018. Maybe I’ll do the climb again this weekend. 📷
Two years ago today I was at the Google Next conference in San Francisco. I mistook another editor for a waiter at a stand-up cocktail reception and tried to take food off his plate.
Julie got me this cunning hat for my birthday yesterday, which I will wear with pride on my next trip back east in winter. I think it’s a great look for me. 📷
