- Architect James Wines on “nature’s revenge” - “I never thought about a building before,” is the greatest compliment I think an architect can get from a person and this guy’s work does this. Deconstructing big box stores is easily the most punk rock thing I’ve ever seen.
- Impossible Owls (Brian Phillips) - Broad, studied and miles deep dives into the worlds of everything from dog sledders in Alaska to the British royals with such good writing tying it all together. Fans of Kent Russell, Will Storr and the like will love this.
- Katrina Come Hell And High Water (Spike Lee)
- Park Mini Golf - A mini golf park in Estonia takes to explaining the Finno-Ugric linguistical gap as part of it’s duty to international cooperation and leisure activities.
- Shell Game (Evan Ratliff) podcast - An insane journey where former journalist and Atavist cofounder Even Ratliff goes and takes up The Valley on it’s promise to have a company of agents. He unleashes an insane journey of agents going off the grid and just endlessly slacking each other, giving legal advice and at one point go for leadership coaching by humans.
- The Avengers Series - I know, I know, the great demise we’re all living through and that great flattening of culture and all the tired remixes, the death of originality and narrative in general, etc, etc. However, one need not forget the utility of the endless Marvel mixes, which is they function as all the same thing. The same action arc and the two hours of visual delight without having to think too hard, and then being able to tease out strands of comic nerd-dom thinking about the galaxy and time. There is a thing where I sort of know the characters and sort of don’t and I can connect to them and sort of not really and maybe it doesn’t matter. The story goes back and forth, there is the cliffhanger. Battles. Explosions. Cool stuff happening roughly every 15 minutes. But there is enough pretty damn good writing and classic tropes to just make you lose yourself in that universe, and universe is the key word, because this is supposed to be the function of storytelling, to be able to step away from the narrative going on in your head and step into another.
- The battle between Dan Wang and Tyler Cowen on everything from how good or bad American suburbs are to which city in China is more interesting
- Troll 2 (Netflix) - Remember monster movies? Godzilla and all that? I loved them as a kid, and so did you. This is basically that except with really big Norse trolls. The first one is a bit better, but this is good fun.
- I’m Peter Askew, and I sell onions on the internet. - A guy who is just really into domains and then ends up trying to make businesses with them.
- Caligra computers - I wish I could be one of these people who post idle threats online, such as how they’re totally going to abandon the Apple ecosystem because of the shape of buttons in a new release. I am not one of those people. However, this thing just looks damn cool and the 80’s industrial design aesthetic, combined with some latent and likely sick and insidious minor obsession with Linux could have something to do with it
