Saturday
4/27/24
Hello from a Saturday afternoon. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I hope you're doing well.
Top of Mind
I've been reading The Iliad. I just finished book one (of 24), and there is a scene in it that I keep thinking
Neil Gorman
Dialogue Driven Film
I watched this film last night. Generally speaking, I like dialogue-driven films more than action-driven films. However, I'd never seen 12 Angry Men before.
I got caught up in the story and the characters and became very quickly engaged in the story being told. I plan to watch
◉ Newsletter | Ramble Fest
Greetings & salutations,
This edition of ◉ Newsletter is coming to you late. I started writing it early on Sunday morning and have been chipping away at it since. The content is a ramble fest, so if you don't enjoy that kind of thing, you probably want to skip
Reading The Iliad
Here is a short line:
the god spread deadly plague throughout the camp,
so that the common troops began to die,
In 16 words a story is told.
Texas & VPNs
From the if Houston based artist Ganzeer’s blog.
Apparently, there are websites you can't access from Texas anymore. I remember how the use of VPNs became quite wise in Egypt towards the tail end of the half-revolution, certainly becoming a thing amongst more tech-saavy folk. Never would
Thursday 4/18 | Delusion
In There are Four Discourses, Lacan says that Freud thought:
That all is but a dream and that everyone (if one can say such a thing), that everyone is mad, that is, delusional.
In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan writes:
one key ingredient of so-called
Works & Shoots
There is a specialized vocabulary in the world of professional wrestling. Two of the terms within this terminology are:
Work
Professional wrestling is scripted, and the outcomes of matches are predetermined. In addition to this, the wrestlers are performers, extremely acrobatic storytellers who use their bodies to portray characters and