We had a decent 4th of July holiday weekend, though I’ve been having a hard time feeling terribly patriotic. The headlines hurt. Supreme Court Broadens Hobby Lobby Ruling to All Forms of Birth Control. Grrrr. So much for Justice Alito’s “narrow” opinion. One of my all time favorite people, George Takei, blasted the High Court’s ruling and called for a boycott of Hobby Lobby. Hell yeah. And Democrats are trying to fast-track a bill to override the Hobby Lobby decision but I don’t know how far that will actually go. There’s at least one rich white American guy who gets it: The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats. And Nick Hanauer wrote that before the unfortunate SCOTUS rulings. I like this guy.
Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
The income gap is widening at an alarming pace. And this reality is being reflected in our dystopian, end-of-the-world fiction. Books and films and tv series. In the last week I’ve seen Snowpiercer (TILDA SWINTON!) and the first few episodes of Dominion (Anthony Stewart Head!) and have read plenty of books like The Last Policeman series and The Maze Runner.
Sometimes I leave too many danged tabs open. But then I find five or more good things:
- Speaking of post-apocalyptic futures, I’m a sucker for photos like this. Three Abandoned Resorts in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania
- This Japanese Doctor Who parody really is the weirdest and best thing. So much love for it.
- Starz to Develop ‘American Gods’; Fuller & Green Announced as Showrunners. About damned time! It’s one of my favorite books and Bryan Fuller has made some of my most favorite TV shows. Speaking of Neil Gaiman, here he is dressed up as Badger from The Wind in the Willows
- This boing boing post about green screen fluffers made me laugh. But never do they mention that those are based on traditional ZENTAI suits!
- Before long it will be back to school time and this pushes all of the adorable/nostalgia buttons: Your Old School Trapper Keeper Is Making a Comeback As a Tablet Case
Another busy weekend ahead. Seeing the Budos Band tonight. My old friend Joan Vorderbruggen is coordinating Hennepin Theatre Trust’s new art-in-storefronts project, MADE HERE, launching tomorrow. A beach wedding party. Dengue Fever (the band) at The Cedar. And it’s now less than two weeks until I see my son again. A little over the halfway mark. Man, this is excruciating.
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