Current Things

Currently Reading

Currently Reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚

Currently Watching

• Alien: Earth
• King of the Hill, Season 14
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 17
• Foundation, Season 3
• The Bear, Season 4
• Disclaimer
• Shrinking, Season 1

Currently In Queue

• The Phoenician Scheme
• Black Bag
• Heretic
• Challengers
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Furiosa
• The First Omen
• Skinamarink

Currently Listening

Currently Planning

• Been too busy planning trips to blog about them!

Concurrently

• I’m grateful for the blogging habits around posting about media– it’s kept me writing despite not really feeling like it. I’ve got a lot of cool trips coming up and I really want to write more about those. Need to figure out a system for doing it!

Finished in August:

Finished reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee 📚Maybe the most astonishing yet unsurprising book you’ll ever read about Apple. Contextualizes not only Apple, but the geopolitical situation of the past 20 years as well as the next 20 in a way that grows a pit in your stomach with every page turn. Highly ... jordon.me

The Studio, Season 1: comes at you with the same energy as Curb Your Enthusiasm, packaged as an insider Hollywood farce. Totally get where that isn’t appealing to everyone– but man– it’s appealing to me!

Weapons: The most hopeful movie of the year

Gotta say a little more about Weapons. It’s the most visceral reaction I’ve had from a movie for as long as I can remember. Julie literally said that I couldn’t say the things I was saying as we were walking out. All the answers you’re looking for in our current situation are here.

Poker Face, Season 2: It’s so expertly-crafted and the central conceit is so fun that you can forgive when they go back to the well one too many times. TV is so much more fun when there’s a good whodunnit (and a good Star Trek!) on

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