Obligatory

We're in the middle of the first season of the Kids Popcorn Podcast, in which I interview interesting adults about movies they watched as kids and kids movies they find interesting today. Each ep about 30 minutes. Listen and subscribe at popcorn.29sunset.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

Ann Patchett is always great, and Tom Lake seems to fit the brief.

Also a big fan of When We Were Real by Darryl Gregory, and the duology by Django Wexler: How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, and Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me.

She doesn't articulate my argument for why she's right — happiness can only exist through choice — but I think the drama demonstrates that pretty clearly. Like, nobody in the show has yet seemed to contemplate what happens when existing food stocks run out. Are they gonna live by the hive's rules?

I want to know HOW it got to 193k miles.

The stupid thing here is that I can absolutely imagine national Democrats taking these poll numbers as vindication of their recent strategy.

"In New York in 1900, 200 persons were killed by horses and horse-drawn
vehicles. This contrasts with 344 auto-related fatalities in New York in 2003; given the
modern city’s greater population, this means the fatality rate per capita in the horse era
was roughly 75 percent higher than today."

This suggests horses were definitely more dangerous

1880s NYC info

Definitely already happening. I'm convinced a significant percentage of Americans genuinely don't know what happened because, understandably, there weren't tv cameras in overflowing hospital wards and the scale of death doesn't compute.

Hope you have the experience with this show that I've had: virtually every question I've had has been explicitly addressed. Incredibly satisfying.

December 2, 2020?

Oh man just realized we've reached 2003 and in this universe 9/11 never happened