July 2018

Hello, dear reader!

July is gone, but its links remain.

Apart from brief musings on films I saw recently, my lone post in July was a recap of my vacation in Brighton, from which I was reluctant to return. The ensuing extended brain vacation kept me from doing as much internetting as usual, so the collection of links is a bit thinner this month, but hopefully you can find something below worth scraping across your… See more →

Leah and I recently returned from a great week in Brighton, England. The impetus for the trip was Ampersand, a one-day typography conference, but since neither Leah nor I had been to the UK before, it made sense to tack on another several days for a vacation.

We rented a decent Airbnb close to the beach near the indistinct border between Brighton and Hove. The first thing I did upon arriving at around 2 a.m.… See more →

Caspar gets the high hat. twitter.com/TheAcademy/sta…

I already have tickets to see @lowtheband three times this fall, but they just added another Brooklyn show… 🤔 nationalsawdust.org/event/adhoc-pr…

This whole @LastWeekTonight segment is good, but don’t miss the interview with Anita Hill at 17:30. youtu.be/dHiAls8loz4

What a mess. I’m sympathetic to what Sorry to Bother You has to say about the intersection of capitalism, exploitation, and racism, but all of its statements, like all of its jokes, are blared from a megaphone and continue long after their point is made. Its amateur-hour vibe is far more tedious than charming, its gonzo satire is self-conscious, and its progressive politics are undercut by its lone female character functioning primarily as a trophy.… See more →

My food life is a pretty crappy combination of boring, expensive, and not super healthy. Gotta work on that. Tips welcome!

This fun @TYPOBER talk by @Tosche_E examines many of the 8×8 pixel fonts developed for old arcade games. typotalks.com/videos/8-pixel…

At the Sleep show. It smells like Otto’s jacket.

I feed the kids with React and have React take them to school, where their teacher is React. Didn’t know I had kids? I made them with React.

Something tells me my typesetting is about to get a lot more flexible. @timbrown @abookapart abookapart.com/products/flexi…

New home screen arrangement for maximum practicality and minimum frivolity.

I pride myself on being a glutton for punishment when it comes to this sort of thing, but this is beyond the pale. twitter.com/SPIN/status/10…

This has been your #TheFactsOfLifeNBC #content for Saturday, July 21, 2018.

Blair Warner : The Facts of Life :: Zack Morris : Saved by the Bell

George Clooney’s tenure on The Facts of Life was shorter than I remembered: just 17 episodes.

I never knew an 11-year-old Molly Ringwald was in the first season of The Facts of Life, and two Diff’rent Strokes episodes that same year.

Just watched the opening credits for each of the nine seasons of The Facts of Life, so my YouTube recommendations should be 👌🏻 for awhile.

The most honest music is spare, quiet, slow. It gives its maker nowhere to hide.

I struggle to understand Japan, and this @BananaKarenina piece on its rent-a-family industry helps, but still, 😐. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

please stop the ride i want to get off twitter.com/AP_Politics/st…

New wrinkle: Going to @xoxo would mean missing @thejesuslizard in Philly BUT I’d be able to see @AndrewWk while in Portland… 🤔

My dream didn’t quite accuse the government of engineering a hurricane to bankrupt the acclaimed rapper Nelly, but the implication was there

The underlying narrative seems sound, but the mythology driving it is vague and the stakes aren’t really made clear. It’s a short movie but I had to watch it in two sittings because I was getting restless. Visually, however, *The Secret of the Kells *is an unparalleled stunner, worthy of its namesake.

There’s a helluva story here, but this documentary is more interested in entertaining than enlightening, and at least one of the conclusions it draws is downright insulting.

Hello, I am a seasoned veteran of all manner of deranged horror films, and I watched most of this through my fingers.

I ❤️ librarians!

Fun times at @DaltonMaag’s Type Drink & Draw tonight!

Not many people will be qualified to advise on this, but my September now requires a choice between @thejesuslizard and @xoxo. Help! 😫

Discretion is the better part of valor. Heroism ≠ leadership. I think I enjoyed this even more the second time.

My afternoon earworm is Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do (I Do It for You),” but thankfully it is the @mattsinger & @r_emmet karaoke version.

Finally made a quick Windhammer one-pager. Brutalism seems appropriate for the subject. Happy to hear suggestions. windhammer.org

However it all eventually ends for me, I’m just glad I got to be here for Reign in Blood.

That whole unlikely-victory-of-an-ill-mannered-buffoon-enabled-by-TV-ratings thing lands a little differently now.

Asghar Farhadi’s sensitivity to the contours of domestic conflict—in a universal sense but also as it relates to certain segments of Iranian society—is extraordinary. This was also true of A Separation, his previous film, and in the case of The Salesman, his focus on the complicated residue of assault rings true in a way that makes the film necessarily and rewardingly difficult.

back in nyc after a week away and wtf is this bayou bullshit

I should give seminars on how to get sick while you’re on vacation.

My collected links from June. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/06/l…

Here are my notes from Friday’s excellent @ampersandconf. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/06/a…