Celeste is about understanding yourself, about abandoning an adversarial relationship with the darker parts of yourself, and instead understanding where those thoughts, feelings, and behaviors come from, approaching challenges as a whole person.
Year in Review 2019: Podcasts
In a year generally seen as terrible, Green gives his first 5-star review. If that's not optimism I don't know what is.
Year in Review 2019: TV
There was a lot of great stuff in this season, but the standout episodes are 6 & 7, "Donar the Great" and "Treasure of the Sun."
Year in Review 2019: Movies
Guava Island is a beautifully simple short film and a 50-minute long music video.
Year in Review 2019: YouTube
I tend to relate to most of Yilmaz's work, but his "Stuck" miniseries really struck home with me.
Year in Review 2019: Music
I mean, obviously I like this album (less obvious is how I missed it but whatever). It would be pretty much impossible for me not to.
Year in Review 2019: Books
Borges meets Kafka via 1980's China.
I Don’t Like Hemingway But He Did Write About Farts in a Poem So There’s That
As did Brautigan (of course)
Decapitating Phillip
I almost used the word “vicissitude” / almost correctly the other day.
Some More On Argumentative Discourse
You are not the only person in your movement / political party / other political/politicized group.
