9 October 2020
“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.”
This Week
How are we holding up, team? If you are upright and functional, you’re doing amazing. If you’re not, you’re still doing pretty darn well. I salute you. Here, have some links.
Links
The rise and fall of Vanilla Ice.
The 100 sequences that shaped animation.
The high privacy cost of a “free” website.
Charlie Jane Anders’s latest chapter in her ongoing work about writing in difficult times is on writing about someone else’s culture or experience and well worth a read.
Betty Gilpin says goodbye to GLOW, a very good television show just unfortunately cancelled.
The tinkering spirit of Eddie Van Halen.
Glow like a night star whenever possible.
Reading/Watching/Listening
Look, I know you don’t want to keep subscribing to new streaming services. But I will say that I’ve discovered Peacock is worth it for A.P. Bio alone, an offbeat comedy that is funny from the beginning but gets weirder and richer as it goes on (and you can watch the first two seasons with a free account). Incidentally, Peacock also has every season of Columbo and Murder She Wrote (also on a free account, from what I can tell). Winter is coming, friends. We need this.
The last season of Schitt’s Creek hit Netflix early. Yes, I’m watching nothing but warm, fuzzy, comforting television lately. It’s just one of those times.
However, it’s also fun-scary times. If you have Amazon Prime, the documentary Horror Noire, about the history of Black Americans in horror film, is freely available all October and I recommend it.
Rock on, Eddie.
Give yourself a break.
Love,
Jen
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Today’s quote is from Louise Glück.