Grant Garmezy made a full size raptor from glass. Which is a sentence that feels like it contains a lot of things.
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The news continues to feature a depressing volume of video of the US President speaking directly to his base – “I love the poorly educated” – in that specific manner of his, using a restricted vocabulary and giant claims. Obviously, he has midterms on his mind, but in a moment where he has command of the global news cycles, it seems like a poor choice. I have Bloomberg up on the big screen right now, with stories about embassy blasts and the Hormuz Strait being shut. Fuel prices going up isn’t good for him – Jimmy Carter was screwed in part by having the legend “the man who killed cheap gasoline in America” hung around his neck, and the current President’s pivot from domestic-first to foreign-first policy seems less like a choice than a flail. He doesn’t look well.
OPERATIONS: Taking today to reconfigure some stuff.
READING: THE BOOK OF COMMENTARY / UNQUIET GARDEN OF THE SOUL, Alexander Kluge (UK) (US+)
LAST WATCHED: rewatched THE MENU
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