1. A message on the David Foster Wallace listserv with a wonderful suggestion insisted on being shared because what’s character without sharing? Thanks to CxD long-time reader and friend Matt for keeping this lovely group of people in conversation for so long. ❤️
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3. Those who are flexible rarely get bent out of shape. With practice over time, you can follow your ideas but adapting when necessary.
4. Need some tunes in your life? Here’s a fun Summertime playlist. (Compare with Trump’s Ted Nugent on repeat if you’re still unsure about the real-life consequences of bigotry).
5. What’s the most timely, insightful, complex, fun, daring, creative, upsetting—Do you know about the Tusla 1921 massacre?—galvanizing, kick-ass “television” show I’ve seen in the last few years, about the problems with defining “heroes” in reductive, simplistic good v. evil kind of way? Who live in a world where that difference is the finest of lines? I would sell every other superhero franchise at the pawn shop for even a whiff of hope of a second season. It’s that damn intelligent and provacative.
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