recs & reviews.
an achingly beautiful memoir, The Devil Wears Prada 2, another Americana album, & more.
Greetings! It has been a week over here. We’ve had a long saga with basement mold and asbestos, and after many months of trying to DIY take care of it, we finally hired (expensive) experts to help. It was many hours of work preparing for the remediation, and many hours of logistics getting them in the house/managing the cats/etc. Also, our washing machine broke!
(The punk in me is physically cringing over an update about home repair and that ‘DIY’ is not in reference to someone named Skumbag’s record label/patch making collective’s praxis. In the words of Blink 182, “I guess this is growing up.” (The punk in me is also cringing over a Blink 182 lyric.)) Anyway!
Below, you’ll find: articles on appealing to ICE agents’ morality (if it exists), another smart essay on ‘political violence,’ my heart-bursting review of Tracy Clark-Flory’s new book, and the screenplays I’m reading for screenwriting class. My glowy Midwest praise for the new Kevin Morby album. And my thoughts on The Devils Wears Prada 2. Plus more!
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Reading.
The Women’s March put out a commercial attempting to shame ICE agents into thinking about their morality. This article in The Guardian unpacks the idea of “moral incongruity,”
