Blogger's Digest

Need to clean out the to-be-blogged-about items I've got building up in feedly. Prefer the one-post-per-link-or-subject approach, but the backlog is too daunting. So, it's a digest post. Possibly the first of several?

• The Sherlock Holmes class I wish UConn offered when I was a student
• Rolling Stone's Top 100 TV shows list is not terrible. Deadwood too low. Doctor Who too low. 
• Dangerous Minds resurfaces Theory.org Trading Cards
• Maybe police chiefs could focus more on not killing people, less on their stupid religious biases
• Maybe sheriffs could worry more about other police murdering people than where trans kids go to the bathroom
• Super abusive but cute greeting cards. I can think of a Wake County sheriff deserving a card ...
• Round up of free, classic audiobooks
• Know your cognitive biases
• Know your deplorables
• One of this blog's chief laments, as expressed by Samantha Bee
• Giving Justin Trudeau the side eye -- we're on to you, Canada.
• As an atheist, I guess I should see Sausage Party then? Hmm.
• The Pixies!
• Been working on the swimming and running. Once I get a new bike, will start the last training leg before attempting a sprint triathlon. Speeding safely downhill seems like a good thing to bone up on.
• Know your Derrida.
• My go-to means of viewing movies by ... emm ... occult means appears to have been put down by The Man so I've fallen way behind seeing hard-to-find movies that I really want to see, like High Rise.

Catching Up

I'm probably the only person I know who didn't read To Kill A Mockingbird in middle or high school, finally did that last year. I'd also never seen the movie, which I didn't remedy until last night with the missus at NCMA's outdoor screening. Apart from feeling like Calpurnia got a bit short-shrifted by the cuts made to the story to fit in on screen, and some of the acting (especially that of James K. Anderson as Bob Ewell) doesn't feel quite up to par for movie we'd call a true classic, I totally get why this one is 25 on the AFI list. Fascinating to see a young Robert Duvall as Boo Radley though. Clocks in at #30 on my flickchart.

Duvall as Boo Radley via can we rest now?

Y'all been raving about The Wire so long I've been meaning to take a second crack at it since not falling in love with the first episode and moving on a couple years back. It's been seriously impacting my ability to catch up on my Doctor Who blogging these last couple days.

Michael K. Williams as Omar via tumblr.com

Going to move on to the second season of The Wire as soon as I wrap up the first. Not sure where Go Set A Watchman sits on the To Read list; it's on there, but now that I've finished Aurora and am making my way through The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, I'm eager to re-read the Mars trilogy, which will likely lead me into Antarctica, which will likely be about the time I look to build out a Kim Stanley Robinson page here on the ol' blog. (Because it's not enough to have one massive project running ... )