also, anyone can get a reading card when they visit and call up anything from their collection to the reading room. amazing resource and experience!

Charles Ives was also an influential insurance executive who invented different types of life insurance (if memory serves)

for me, it's been instinctively saying "I appreciate ya" in virtually every customer service and retail interaction I have for some reason

this is fake btw

I think Jaron Lanier summed it up pretty well: "...For those students who want to have optimal music made for them, I have to ask, Would you want robots to have sex for you so you don’t have to? I mean, what is life for?"

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It's especially upsetting given that her widely recommended and highly visible book about finding Judaism is presented in this sort of modern, pragmatic framing.

*on an extremely local level.

A friend of mine was at the Rico Fresh gassing and was sending me videos before it was being covered anywhere. The next day, an ice car drove past me and my kids near the Square followed by a bunch of cars honking in warning. those 2 events felt like a line had been crossed on an extremely locally.

i felt similarly. The dialogue was super clunky at times, but the sheer force of the performances made it work.

have you heard the musical adaptation? open.spotify.com/track/4phbSD...

Its the ending that irks me -- the monsters leave the hippo some gifts and cake after all the curfuffle, and the hippo is still left alone and confused on his birthday.

But yes, we love Boynton and especially her 90s style website with flashing "enter" button www.sandraboynton.com/sboynton/ind...

Birthday Monsters is mid-tier Boynton imo. Definitely a notch above phoned-in also-rans like "Your Personal Penguin" but vastly less inspired than classics like "15 Animals."

My eyes just rolled so hard they did a complete rotation

or the countless terrified families currently living in hiding, wondering how they're going to feed their kids.

It's truly amazing. and the two of them set such an untouchably high bar with that performance that there will never be a revival that hits as hard.

her first crescendo of "we do not belong together" may very well be the peak of the art form (and really all art forms)

We need to do everything we can to keep the organizing momentum that was catalyzed by the events of the last two months going. A year from now, we should be looking back on whistle parties and school watches as turning points!

and to think that he was killed in action exactly one week before the armistice, compounds the sadness and tragedy of all his work

yes! and especially cause on some fundamental level, their approach to making music was democratic and collaborative.