Friday, December 20, 2024
I am doing my best to keep you all entertained and edified, but I must confess that I am just about out of motivation for the year. Fortunately this newsletter is 90% just posting other people's work, so it really doesn't take much to put it together. Thanks, other people! I literally couldn't do it without you.
Item 1: a link
For example, Cabel Sasser pretty much took care of Item 1 for me.
I have to confess, I spent a lot of time on the internet in the mid-to-late '90s, but I didn't manage to poke into every single dark corner. Fortunately, it's never too late to experience something new, like a 100 song playlist of the best keygen music ever written. "Keygen Music" is, of course, music composed by sketchy hacker outlaws in the '90s to brand their illicit software built to circumvent copy protection on games and software. Anyway, my favorite track is “portello - motherchip”.
Item 2: a list
Best TV shows I watched in 2024
- Shōgun
- What We Do in the Shadows
- Top Boy (this is from 2011-2013 and 2019-2023 but I didn’t get around to watching it until this year)
- Ripley
- Say Nothing
- 3 Body Problem
- Slow Horses
- Industry
- Deadloch (this is from 2023 but I didn’t get around to watching it until this year)
- Monsieur Spade
Honorable mention to The Curse, which aired its last episode in 2024 but was really more of a 2023 show (although I'd say it turned out to have sinister 2024 vibes).
Next year I am looking forward to season 2 of Andor; more Slow Horses, a season of For All Mankind that ideally isn't as dumb as the last one; more The Bear; and the new Game of Thrones spin-off that isn't just about blond people ramming into each other with dragons.
Item 3: a media recommendation
The Shadows - Apache
Item 4: word of the week
Cenotaph
My car's transmission blew up somewhere east of Beaver, Utah back in 1996. She was totaled, and I had to leave the wreck in some junkyard, but we commemorate her sacrifice each year: I lay her hood ornament on the family ofrenda, an ephemeral cenotaph to a fallen soldier.
Item 5: a photograph
See ya!
Thank you for reading. See you again next week for the Wolmania end of year spectacular.
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