CASA BENOIT BLANCA

Susan cared deeply about beauty and loved writing and talking about it.

It lets people gather their thoughts about someone they maybe knew or loved or worked with, and it’s a call they don’t have to take when the time actually comes. So it makes sense! With all that said, I don’t know if I would have the skills to do that job.

I actually spoke to somebody who writes a lot of advance obits who talked about the process of asking people *on tape* to talk about someone in the past tense. She said it helped to tell them, basically, “It’s awkward, but this way I don’t have to call you when this person has just died.”

Absolutely. It’s a piece of the news business I knew nothing about until I got to NPR. (If you’ve never seen a documentary called OBIT, it’s about the NYT obit desk, and it’s really interesting.)

It happens more often than you’d think! Many people live years after their obits start to be worked on. My guess is they started working on Gehry’s 15-ish years ago. (They get updated.)

Karen I’m so confused.

Joe, stop manifesting

B wore his sweater around for a while today but then he wanted out.

I definitely knew I would get some and that’s totally fine.

Heh. Reasonable conclusion.

I’m so sorry this happened. Stuff like this calls for some real rest. It drains energy and wouldn’t surprise me at all if it takes a little time.

P.S. Why are the hands all rotting?

The other thing is that it seems to ignore the field of administrative law. There are already lots of limits on unworkable delegation. My admin law professor referred to it as “Go find a rock. …No, not that rock.” I think about it CONSTANTLY, and not just about government. It’s already a thing!

I love this for him.

Yuuuup. Smart Professor.

I just also think it speaks so poorly of Tarantino’s discernment. Dano is an interesting actor partly *because* he’s not all swagger and bombast. Taking away from that a notion of “weakness” is so artistically incurious and limited.

It’s just mean, and I want less of it. It’s not the most important thing going on in the world, but I want a lot less of it. I’ve grown weary of the frequency with which I’m expected to say, “Whatever, there goes ol’ Weirdo again.”

I don’t like to give this stuff attention, but for a director with a lot of acolytes listening to him to single out an actor and start talking publicly about how he’s the worst actor in SAG just sucks. What would possess you to say that?