Darth Vader and I are finishing off the Thanksgiving babka with some cherry Coke.
💻 Recently my less-than-alma mater asked, “Remember the 90s at Carolina?
I didn’t get there until 1999 so I had different things in my metaphorical Carolina Jeep.
📺🍿🎄 By the way, time travel is a whole subgenre of holiday made-for-TV movie. See:
- Eve’s Christmas (yes, that IS Amber from Clueless!)
- Back to Christmas (featuring Veronica Mars’s Michael Muhney and 1990s Jan Brady!)
- Christmas Comes Twice (Tamera Mowry!)
- A Timeless Christmas
📺🍿🎄 I was watching Hulu’s A Christmas Frequency and everything was going great but then it shattered my suspension of disbelief by having one guy give another guy an expense report, printed on paper.
🍿 Saw Wish. A story full of good ideas. Music nice but not as memorable as, say, Encanto. Chris Pine is, of course, a delight. Full of beautifully casual representation.
📝 Jami Attenberg in today’s Craft Talk newsletter:
it’s important to write the things you can write.
Today in Year of Making, LEGO set 40658, Millennium Falcon Holiday Diorama.
Anybody know if there are vampire stories, in any medium, that address the question of neuroplasticity? I feel like an animated corpse shouldn’t have it, but it seems like it’d be useful to help you make the most of your potentially very long life.
Finished reading: Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado 📚
A bunch of excellent and chilling stories. Horror and make it literary. Uncertainty that is maddening but then that’s kind of the point.
I just want to be able to feel grief in my heart and also sleep. It doesn’t seem like a lot to ask but my body disagrees.