July 29, 2022
What's your favorite idea? Mine is being creative!
[warning: some viewers may find disturbing, but not be able to turn away. See Wikipedia article for more.]
Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared is coming to Channel 4 (UK) some time in September 2022. Teaser: FLY! Pesky Twitter.
A Cinematic Experience
More than a teaser trailer, Moonage Daydream has a full-length peek [2m4s]. I really want this to play in the Dolby Cinema box in my town. Also, that might be my first time in a theater since the Before Times.
your nan visiting Florida once a year is not what’s killing the planet
1% of people cause a stunning 50% of global aviation emissions. There is clear inequality in terms of emissions between nations, but also vast inequality within Western nations in terms of who’s causing the climate crisis. Take the United States – the biggest contributor to aviation pollution on the planet. Whereas commercial US flights remain 13% below pre-pandemic levels, private aviation traffic is actually higher – 15% higher, to be exact. This means that while ordinary people are actually flying less than before the pandemic, the richest are flying more. [more inside]
In memoriam Vincent DeRosa (1920-2022), Horn player extraordinaire
The French Horn player you don't realize you've heard your whole life, Vincent DeRosa is easily the most heard and most influential Horn player ever, with a discography that is simply astonishing, including: [more inside]
And the winner is............ NOT Rebekah Vardy
Liverpudlian Coleen Rooney has been a WAG since the term was invented. Rebekah Vardy is also a WAG albeit perhaps slightly less high profile. The two women are acquainted with each other, and Vardy was a follower of Rooney's private Instagram account. In a social media post that quickly went viral, Rooney claimed to have established in an elaborate sting that Vardy's account was responsibly for leaking stories about her to The Sun newspaper and attracted the hashtag #WagathaChristie [more inside]
"Do you know how insane that sounds in this courtroom today?"
This week in Texas, after months of stonewalling, a summary judgment that had the legal community in astonishment, and an attempt to make an end run around the courts via bankruptcy law, peddler of conspiracy theories and supplements both of dubious quality Alex Jones is finally in court to determine the damages he owes Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis for defaming them over the death of their 6 year old son in one of the bloodiest massacres in American history. And if you are imagining that this trial is going to be be a three ring circus with Jones as the ringmaster - you have no idea. [more inside]
FAMOUS WEDDING SHOW
Happy Fortunate People
"It didn’t occur to Hamish until then that you could end up in medical school against your will. For Hamish, getting into medical school was like releasing a breath he’d been holding his entire life. But once there, he found himself surrounded by people for whom it represented nothing more remarkable than the result of mild exertion; they accepted it as a blasé part of their destiny. It was like finding out they were hyperflexible or had the genes that made them able to discern the stink of their piss after eating asparagus. Maybe that’s the way it worked for some people. Maybe for them, there was an order to life, a logic that could be easily traversed, whereas for Hamish, life was like leaping from ice floe to ice floe, drifting for weeks or months or years with no land in sight." [more inside]
The deadliest road in America
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