I finished reading My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones earlier this week. While I didn’t love it, I liked it enough that I drove to the bookstore the day after I finished it to pick up the sequel.
The book connected with all of the horror movie watching I have been doing lately, especially the main character who is obsessed with slasher films. I appreciated how layered the story was, without seeming forced.
I am about a hundred pages into Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , which I am a bit embarrassed to admit that I have never read before.
I have, of course, seen the old Universal movie with Boris Karloff as the Monster, and I think I saw the 1990s Kenneth Branagh version as well. While I knew that the films strayed from the plot and story of the novel, I guess I was not aware of just how much they did so.
I was just reading some conversations on Mastodon about whether the antitrust ruling against Google will end up actually hurting them.
As a matter of principle, I am all for these sorts of rulings. I hope that the DOJ has a bunch more cases in the pipeline against the rest of the big tech companies. Maybe we can start making some incremental progress against the ridiculous “Monopolies are fine as long as consumer prices don’t go up” standard.
The 14yo and I went to see Metallica in Boston on Friday night. It was his first concert, and my first time seeing Metallica live in nearly thirty years.
While they are all clearly getting on in years (aren’t we all?), Metallica still puts on a great show. They started around 8:45 and played pretty much straight through until nearly 11pm, opening with Creeping Death and Harvester Of Sorrow and closing out with Seek & Destroy and Master Of Puppets. In between, they played songs from every album except St. Anger and Death Magnetic.
As a former garbageman, I love stories like this. “Everything you’re doing to cut down on waste is wrong.”
OK. So what SHOULD we do?
“There’s NOTHING you can do.”
Shut up.
Derf is right. You should listen to Derf.
It drives me kind of crazy when smug assholes try to shame people about individual changes they make in their own lives and households to try to make the world a better place.