Jordon Wadlington

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Current Things: February 2026

Currently Reading

Currently Reading: God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn 📚

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  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

  • Oscar Noms are up and they look pretty good to me. Surprised F1 got in there: it’s a fun movie and I try to be happy that the academy sometimes nominates fun movies.

Finished in January:

Stranger Things Season 5 Watched out of obligation and felt like one every second of it. I’ve never been too high on this show, but it’s a textbook case of a story not evolving with its actors. It clings far too much to what worked in the past and feels pretty stale because of it.

Marty Supreme: Presumably one day we won’t be able to make our own luck. But today is not that day

Bugonia: the logic may be wrong, but the facts are not

F1: There aren’t any square pegs in round holes, but you never mind that there’s no friction. from a different era in all the best ways.

Wake Up Dead Man: Not as fun as the others in this series, but the most thematically resonant to me. The faint outline of where the cross used to hang at the front of the church nails what this movie is going for

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Stranger Things Season 5 Watched out of obligation and felt like one every second of it. I’ve never been too high on this show, but it’s a textbook case of a story not evolving with its actors. It clings far too much to what worked in the past and feels pretty stale because of it.

I hope you’ve already had a chance to watch this speech by Canadian PM Mark Carney. If not please take the time.

This is coming from a former banker–a banker! Be skeptical of predicted disruptions to the status quo. But if things are about to change, this is how it starts.

Currently Reading: God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O’Gieblyn 📚

Marty Supreme: Presumably one day we won’t be able to make our own luck. But today is not that day

Marty Supreme, 2025

Presumably one day we won't be able to make our own luck. But today is not that day

Bugonia, 2025

the logic may be wrong, but the facts are not

F1, 2025

There aren't any square pegs in round holes, but you never mind that there's no friction. from a different era in all the best ways.

Wake Up Dead Man, 2025

Not as fun as the others in this series, but the most thematically resonant to me. The faint outline of where the cross used to hang at the front of the church nails what this movie is going for

Current Things: January 2026

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  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

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  • This is apparently becoming video game corner. Start Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. Not too far into it, but seems like this may be my favorite version of Metroid since it’s apparently a lot more linear. You think as much as I like Zelda, I’d be into the backtracking and exploration in Metroid, but for some reason I’m not.

Finished in December:

Pluribus Season 1 my god, it’s nice to have Vince Gilligan back in Sci-Fi. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are two of the greatest shows ever created, but Gilligan’s sensibilities are served so much better in this genre 📺

Hacks Season 2 The formula is starting to show a bit here, but still just some of the best written and acted TV around. Hoping they can shake things up in Season 3 📺

The Chair Company Season 1: In retrospect, it was pretty obvious that a giant conspiracy about a chair company fits perfectly with Tim Robinson’s brand of humor. But honestly, only in retrospect 📺

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Pluribus Season 1 my god, it’s nice to have Vince Gilligan back in Sci-Fi. Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are two of the greatest shows ever created, but Gilligan’s sensibilities are served so much better in this genre 📺

Hacks Season 2 The formula is starting to show a bit here, but still just some of the best written and acted TV around. Hoping they can shake things up in Season 3 📺

The Chair Company Season 1: In retrospect, it was pretty obvious that a giant conspiracy about a chair company fits perfectly with Tim Robinson’s brand of humor. But honestly, only in retrospect 📺

Current Things: December 2025

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  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

  • On the video game front, I finished Donkey Kong Bananza: who would have thought it would be very very satisfying to just smash stuff for like 30 hours straight?

Finished in November:

Furiosa: George Miller needs to come out with more movies so that I’m not surprised every time at how his camera work is the best there is

Zootopia 2: This series somehow remains thematically sharp despite 8+ years between entries. It’s a good reminder that our problems are deep, but they’re not complicated 🍿

Hacks Season 1: One part throwback to the odd couple comedies of the 70s and 80s and one part modern story of how our society mistreats everyone– albeit unequally. Ashamed it took me this long to watch and have already started season 2. 📺

Finished reading: [Abundance](https://micro.blog/books/9781668023488) by Ezra Klein 📚 The book asks: "What is scarce that should be abundant? What is difficult to build that should be easy? What inventions do we need that we do not yet have?" You can imagine an alternate history where Kamala Harris won the election and these questions became a rallying cry. Instead, it's a vision of a future that takes the can-do attitude of pre-Donald Trump conservatism and the policy sensibilities of modern liberalism and argues the answer to many of our problems is...more. More housing, more energy, more innovation.

Unfortunately, while more isn’t quite a bad word among certain political groups, it’s certainly met with a healthy dose of skepticism. Scarcity may be the safer bet in the short term of an uncertain world, but it’s exactly this aversion to risk that has caused America to stagnate. Can we learn again to be ok with crackpot theories that could lead to scientific breakthroughs? Can we rediscover our comfort with subsidizing a thousand million-dollar wrong ideas to produce a trillion-dollar good one? Can we remember that we don’t have to be bogged down by regulatory, societal, and political baggage?

“Can we solve our problems with supply?”

TBDjordon.me

Slow Horses, Season 6: not too much to say specifically about this season. This show just continues to be so much fun to watch. It’s a great reminder that the characters make the plot, not the other way around.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, 2024

George Miller needs to come out with more movies so that I'm not surprised every time at how his camera work is the best there is

Zootopia 2, 2025

This series somehow remains thematically sharp despite 8+ years between entries. It’s a good reminder that our problems are deep, but they’re not complicated

Hacks Season 1: One part throwback to the odd couple comedies of the 70s and 80s and one part modern story of how our society mistreats everyone– albeit unequally. Ashamed it took me this long to watch and have already started season 2. 📺

Finished reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein 📚 The book asks: “What is scarce that should be abundant? What is difficult to build that should be easy? What inventions do we need that we do not yet have?” You can imagine an alternate history where Kamala Harris won the election and these questions became a rallying cry. Instead, it’s a vision of a future that takes the can-do attitude of pre-Donald Trump conservatism and the policy sensibilities of modern liberalism and argues the answer to many of our problems is…more. More housing, more energy, more innovation.

Unfortunately, while more isn’t quite a bad word among certain political groups, it’s certainly met with a healthy dose of skepticism. Scarcity may be the safer bet in the short term of an uncertain world, but it’s exactly this aversion to risk that has caused America to stagnate. Can we learn again to be ok with crackpot theories that could lead to scientific breakthroughs? Can we rediscover our comfort with subsidizing a thousand million-dollar wrong ideas to produce a trillion-dollar good one? Can we remember that we don’t have to be bogged down by regulatory, societal, and political baggage?

“Can we solve our problems with supply?”

TBD

Take a few seconds to read the Pope’s thoughts on movies. Love this excerpt that applies not only to movies, but also * gestures broadly *

Slow Horses, Season 6: not too much to say specifically about this season. This show just continues to be so much fun to watch. It’s a great reminder that the characters make the plot, not the other way around.

Current Things: November 2025

Currently Reading

Currently Reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein 📚

Currently Watching

Currently In Queue

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

  • Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

  • I have to stop buying video games until I actually start playing video games. I’ve bought Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Donkey Bananaza, and Pokemon Legends Z-A and not played any of them. Plus there’s a new Zelda game coming out next month and then a new Metroid in December! Where do you find the time??

Finished in October:

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 As you’d expect from an ESJM novel, a mediation on what makes us human. I was skeptical of the structure at first, but flew through the last two-thirds of it. Has obvious and explicit tie ins to COVID, but also on how to navigate our current predicament jordon.me

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3: Uneven season. The last two episodes were essentially (and I think purposefully) lesser versions of two of the greatest TNG episodes. I have a lot of feelings (mostly negative) about them, but damn if they didn’t work emotionally

One Battle After Another:

DiCaprio is going to win an Oscar for OBAA, but del Toro’s performance (and his character) is the real lynchpin of the movie.

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Currently Reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein 📚

Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 As you’d expect from an ESJM novel, a mediation on what makes us human. I was skeptical of the structure at first, but flew through the last two-thirds of it. Has obvious and explicit tie ins to COVID, but also on how to navigate our current predicament.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3: Uneven season. The last two episodes were essentially (and I think purposefully) lesser versions of two of the greatest TNG episodes. I have a lot of feelings (mostly negative) about them, but damn if they didn’t work emotionally

DiCaprio is going to win an Oscar for OBAA, but del Toro’s performance (and his character) is the real lynchpin of the movie.