28 December, 2024

Ava DuVernay: Origin
Listening/Watching
David Eldridge: Festen
Reading

“That which is empty, everything is possible. That which is not empty, nothing is possible.”

–Buddha

Quote of the Week

24 November, 2024

George Miller: Furiosa, A Mad Max Saga
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Victor Luckerson: Built from the Fire
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“The only queer people are those who don’t love anybody.”

–Rita Mae Brown

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Rodin Ritual

I’ve gotten into the habit of transforming life moments with rituals. Then the other day a friend asked the other day why I do this. Why would I not?#*$&?!!! Another friend pointed out they always, go sideways . . . which is true. Here’s the latest! Much love, Alex

10 November, 2024

Colin Wratten, Elinor Day: Killing Eve
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Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

–H. L. Mencken

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19 October, 2024

Heidi Schreck: What the Constitution Means to Me
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Simon Singh: Fermat's Last Theorem
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“Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

–Paulo Coelho

Quote of the Week

29 September, 2024

Simon McBurney: Mnemonic
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Sarah Ogilvie: The Dictionary People
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“The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.”

–Sylvia Boorstein

Quote of the Week

22 September, 2024

Jeremy O. Harris: Slave Play
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Cedric J. Robinson: An Anthropology of Marxism
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“Death is like a white cop arresting a black man – the more you resist the more it hurts!”

–Stephone Watson

Quote of the Week

31 August, 2024

Brian Yorkey: Next to Normal
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Aeschylus: Aeschylus II
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“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”

–Simone de Beauvoir

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