for me? four years of being on the mock trial team, despite zero interest in becoming a lawyer. sometimes I'd go from mock trial to drama rehearsal in the same afterschool session.

It has also gotten me to revisit Blue Notes For Mongezi, to which I am currently listening.

...to be fair, I am also the child of two parents who both attended liberal arts colleges, which may have shaped that belief.

I just wish more people in positions of power would take the position of "knowledge is a good thing unto itself."

No bubble to burst! I figured there was something being done, but I could not tell what it was.

Currently reading Bitter Karella's Quaint Folk while listening to the music of Heron, which is either a brilliant idea or a curséd one.

Saw it in the theater and tried very hard not to laugh loudly at the end when the awful network suits are bathed in a comically absurd amount of blood. Wondered, "Is everyone else in this theater going to be worried about me?"

Jotted this phrase on a post-it note weeks ago: PAUL BUNYAN, ASTRONAUT

I keep thinking of Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster on Parks & Recreation. (To be fair, I would absolutely read the comics version of that.)

....you have now sent me down a Chris McGregor-themed rabbit hole.

Had a very strange, very immersive dream in which I learned that a group of friends were apparently in a secret throuple about which I'd had no idea. It melted my brain and I just kept lingering around a house that had numerous recliners that were far too large to use comfortably.

Excellent thread if you're looking for some uncanny reading suggestions.

I have a copy of this on my to-read shelf right now; it's looking longingly at me.

Saw this on at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival a few years ago; I'm still unsettled by the ending.