Lately, I’ve found it difficult to write. I feel overwhelmed in multiple areas of my life. But I’m doing the work, thanks to therapy. Feeling the feelings. Naming what’s going on and being more compassionate to myself. While I’m working on being more present, I also allow myself some enjoyable distractions.
- Thanks to the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival, I recently enjoyed two great documentaries. First, the lovingly crafted The Sparks Brothers by self-proclaimed fanboy Edgar Wright. “All pop music is just rearranged Sparks.” Truth.
- The second documentary I enjoyed was bittersweet. Growing up, my brother Tom and I watched pro wrestling together. And we were obsessed with The Claw! I wish Tom could have watched this with me:
Pro wrestling vet Jim Raschke grapples with life, legacy in new film The Claw - Area vegans are rejoicing over the opening of Herbie Butcher’s Fried Chicken. I probably should have skipped opening weekend and waited for things to calm down but nope, I got right up in there. And was rewarded with a delicious bucket of vegan fried chicken and sides.
- This pleases me:
Zack Snyder Spent “A Few Million†to Add Tig Notaro to Army of the Dead - The filmmaker says erasing scandal-plagued comic Chris D’Elia was an easy choice, but costly and complicated. Notaro made it all worthwhile.
Tig also delights me on Star Trek Discovery. She’s at her best as a snarky, disgruntled engineer. More of that, please.
- One of my all-time favorite bands: From eerie folk lullabies to bouncy b-sides: Ten of the Chills’ best songs
New Zealand band the Chills is releasing a new album, Scatterbrain. - This is a great read: The Overlooked, Radical History of Black Women in Art
- I went to bed early with a book Saturday night. But then a friend texted me to walk down, three blocks away, for cocktails at a small gathering. I did and it was great! We drank and played The Mind card game and I stayed up much later than I normally would and everyone walked me home, as a group.
I bought our condo in July of 2019. I’ve been gradually making improvements. Some are less visible than others, like replacing the boiler back in January. But last week I had our hallway repainted a daffodil yellow. And I replaced the three pendant lights in the kitchen (that I loathed). Today a plumber replaced our OG 99-year-old toilet and installed my new kitchen faucet. It’s all coming together. Next, I need the wallpaper hangers to come by to jazz up an accent wall. Then hire an electrician to install a pile of light fixtures. And, lastly, there are a couple of tile-related projects to take care of. Overall it is feeling a whole lot like home.
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