Looks like Dreamwidth can no longer crosspost to LiveJournal, so if you're still following me here, you should go follow me there instead. This will probably be my last post here.

At the beginning of this month, I binge-watched the show It's a Sin, a 5-episode miniseries on HBO. It's about a group of friends in London coming of age in the 1980s against the backdrop of the rising AIDS pandemic. It's semi-autobiographical by Russel T. Davies, who you might know from Dr Who and Queer as Folk.

It's a great show! I was expecting ( Read more... )

100 years ago, a white mob burned down 35 blocks of a wealthy Black neighborhood in Tulsa, OK and murdered dozens or hundreds of Black citizens. I was never taught about the Tulsa Race Massacre in school, and in fact I never heard of it until 2019 when it was portrayed in the Watchmen show on HBO. It was also portrayed in last year's Lovecraft ( Read more... )

In theory, it should have been easier to have seen the Oscar Best Picture nominees than in previous years, thanks to the two month extension/delay and the ubiquity of streaming in pandemic times. In practice, I had only seen two of the eight nominees when they were announced, and it took me until three days before the awards ceremony to have seen ( Read more... )

In 2019, I kept track of all the music I listened to, and I planned to make a best-of list and post it sometime early in 2020. But as I was about to start thinking about the list, I realized that I just wasn't familiar enough with a lot of the things I'd listened to, most of them only once, so I decided to listen to everything one more time before ( Read more... )

Hey everybody! I finally got around to migrating my LiveJournal to Dreamwidth!! I will probably continue cross-posting to LiveJournal indefinitely, but, really, you should follow me on Dreamwidth instead. And don't forget to update your RSS subscription. (Yes, I'm saying that with a straight face in 2020!)

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For the last few years, I've managed to see all of the Best Picture nominees before the Academy Awards ceremony. Looks like I didn't bother writing anything about them last year, but I did two years ago and four years ago, so let's do it again this year!

Quick summary: my favorites were Little Women and Parasite, but I wouldn't be disappointed if ( Read more... )

Status update: earlier this month I put in my notice at Wellist; tomorrow is my last day. After a year and half working there, it's time to move on, and I'm looking forward to working on my own things for a while. No solid plans yet, but my main goal is to have a finished project on my Github profile rather than the hodgepodge of undercooked things ( Read more... )

For many years, at the end of the year I would make a list of my favorite new music released that year. In fact, from 1995 to 2003 I ran the end-of-year poll for a private indie music discussion forum. Eventually I fell out of the habit, but this year I decided to at least keep track of the new music I listened to. And now that the year is half ( Read more... )

I started working at Wellist just shy of a year ago. The office overlooks City Hall Plaza in the middle of downtown Boston. I like to get out of the office to get lunch, and there are tons of options nearby, so for fun I decided to get lunch from a different place every day and see how long I could go without repeating. I figured maybe a few months ( Read more... )