October 2018

Hello, dear reader!

October is gone, but its links remain.

I was mired in personal matters throughout October, so there wasn’t any activity on my site apart from the horror extravaganza that is Robtober, which was thankfully not disrupted. I finally finished a project that had been in the works for a few months: a custom-designed story with ProPublica Illinois about a family’s heartbreaking experience with an ill-conceived psychiatric clinical trial.

This round of links… See more →

Humans are an invasive species. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Just added my 1,000th film diary entry on @letterboxd. 🍾

My dad would have turned 75 today.

Another shooting, same reliable GOP response: “that the only way to combat terror is to yield to it.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

If you’ve worked on design software and made decisions about how to represent text objects in exported SVG, I have so many questions for you

Every last thing is now officially terrible. twitter.com/Variety/status…

New work: a mother’s annotated journal of what turned out to be a troubling psychiatric clinical trial. features.propublica.org/uic-journal/un…

RIP @cindyli. I hadn’t seen her in years, but she was a welcome fixture at many events I remember very fondly. Peace to her family. 💔

Said the man in the vest to the crisp morning dew
The only thing better than one jackhammer
Is two
🌈🌈

I was like, “If a NYC cinema specializing in esoterica can’t properly mask an arty French film, what hope is there?” but then they fixed it.

Reminder: the earliest influential web design teachers were women, specifically greats @jenville and @lyndaweinman. thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-books-that…

I have a rule about not bothering celebrities when I see them in the wild. But man I really wanted to say hi to @SteveEarle yesterday.

To put the film “on either side of the cultural divide is to actively ignore its ambivalence—a key philosophical tenet of Chazelle’s work.” twitter.com/TheAVClub/stat…

It may be the first in the series (other than the original) to have a director and screenwriters with name recognition, but this is just another Halloween sequel, thankfully nothing less but certainly nothing more. It’s pretty boring.

Also, is there any greater talent in Hollywood who is as routinely wasted as Judy Greer is?

have they blamed it on gritty yet twitter.com/nytimes/status…

The director of The Raid putting his spin on The Wicker Man sure sounds like fun, and Apostle starts off with promise, with a wild-eyed Dan Stevens lurching around a muddy village of Victorian cultists. But the movie kneecaps itself before the halfway mark, rushing to resolve the most interesting aspects of its plot in favor of making a gonzo, gore-soaked spectacle of the superfluous remainder.

I mean they really should be called John Carpenter’s The Fog: The Band twitter.com/robweychert/st…

I am transmitting to you from the ’90s to let you know that NIN isn’t even onstage yet and the smoke machines are already working overtime.

Elizabeth Warren’s DNA debacle reinforces the pernicious myth of race as a measurable biological category. newyorker.com/news/our-colum…

This @mckaycoppins profile of Newt Gingrich is some depressing shit. Hubris and cynicism are a nasty mix. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Another round of Adobe updates, same bunch of stupid bugs that haven’t been fixed.

I’m honored to be mentioned (at 15:03) in @sillypenta’s impressively researched look at 1990s Lego animation: youtu.be/xQtHWlgZEVI

FYI
FML

TTYL

“It can be hard to tell when we’re consuming art and when we’re conducting H.R.” nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Members of the “Exhausted Majority” share “a sense of fatigue with our polarized national conversation.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Turnover in the Trump administration relative to the previous three administrations. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

This kid and his functional Lego combination safe are making me think that just maybe everything will be okay. youtu.be/OjDKSWCrWeU

My heart is not proud, o Lord, nor my eyes haughty; grant unto me all things pumpkin-spice-flavored

“[S]ome researchers watched the mistaken-identity theory spread through the Senate this month with a sense of stunned dismay.” twitter.com/washingtonpost…

Days since I’ve seen someone pissing in public directly in front of my building: 0

In case things aren’t horrific enough for you, I finally got this year’s horror movie schedule together. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2018/10/r…

Every October, I put together a big schedule of horror films, most of which I haven’t seen before. Films, dates, and times (all subject to change) are listed for any friends who want to join me, and ticket links are included for public screenings. The schedule is also available as a handy Google calendar and as a Letterboxd list.

This year, Michael Myers’ imminent return to the big screen has inspired me to binge my way… See more →

My new favorite Tumblr is full of colorful animations of vintage electronics. electronicitems.tumblr.com

Me, waking up and realizing today makes 13 years with @ChamberMonster. 😴😞😑😐🤔😮🙂😀😃😍