This week, we’re fulfilling prophecies, and pledges to past selves. We bought the tickets and took the rides. Some of america into the archive. Some of america into the dungeon. And immoderate of america retired to greener pastures.
Calvin Kasulke is thrilled to study that the long-awaited, lately released caller Clipse medium “absolutely delivers.” “Let God Sort Em Out,” is the 4th workplace medium from the Virginia-born hip-hop duo. Pharrell produced. Let it rip.
James Folta stays into hyper circumstantial archival projects. This week he’s been digging this assemblage effort to papers however galore cigarettes look successful movies. (The website How Many Cigarettes tackles a akin beat.) “Whenever a movie has a cigaret appearing much than erstwhile each 5 minutes, it’s tagged a ‘REAL SMOKER MOVIE,’ which cracks maine up,” says our nonmigratory librarian. “Despite having ne'er been a smoker, I’ve go beauteous invested.”
Drew Broussard is “not adjacent sorry” that his bully happening this week is different throwback web game, reminiscent of the bully aged web. Dark Fort places its users successful a catacomb, wherever they indispensable implicit a mysterious quest. This solo RPG is portion of the Mörk Borg extended universe, wherein apocalypse looms. You volition person to inquire Drew much astir the details. If you tin teardrop him distant from the screen.
Oliver Scialdone’s besides revisiting the champion things astir being 14. “I’m rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Jillian due to the fact that she’s ne'er seen it,” our assemblage exertion reports. Turns retired the WB’s champion spot does, in, information clasp up. Be warned, emulators—late 90s/early aughts taste products person existent Give-a-Mouse-a-Cookie potential. Oliver’s besides been listening to tons of Garbage, and rereading Nana.
Olivia Rutigliano went connected an existent vacation. She and the spouse visited St. Kitts and its breath-taking sister island, Nevis (“one of the astir beauteous places imaginable”) and did perfectly nary work, which we genuinely salute. “We went swimming and work books. (I burned my mode done immoderate Simenon, personally.) To punctuation the Go-Gos: ‘vacation, each I ever wanted.'”
Molly Odintz went connected a mind vacation, to Alienated Majesty Books. Our managing CrimeReads exertion is thrilled to study that the indie houses “the champion obscure lit postulation successful Austin.” Though she arrived for a publication speech from hardcore fable Eugene Robinson, unexpected treats abounded. Real bully anecdotes astir existent bully weirdos.
I’m grateful this week for a divine pairing. A pistachio popsicle, and Pam Houston’s Cowboys Are My Weakness. One is simply a cleanable summertime treat, the different is simply a cleanable summertime communicative collection, pursuing witty, tortured, outdoor women implicit and astir the elaborate emotion hurdles they acceptable themselves. Sentences arsenic salty-sweet arsenic my caller favourite dessert.
Wishing you a week of heavy dives, caller vistas, and pleasant memories of things past.
