David flagged this one for me, knowing that I’m both a lover of fantasy and Ursula K. Le Guin in particular. On through February 8th at Oregon Contemporary, A Larger Reality is a mixed media and interactive portrait of the author’s life and work curated by her son, Theo. If I were in Portland, I’d already be drafting my own mini missive to type on Le Guin’s very first typewriter, which is part of the show and, amazingly, available for public use. I’d also be desperately trying to procure tickets to one of the (sold out) Speculative Mapmaking Workshops. (And if that’s your bag, I highly recommend this book.)
-VvP
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A fellow avid listener of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast went through the trouble of editing down every episode of Saturday Night Live that featured a digital short to just that and compiled them in this here Google Drive folder. They also made a nearly four-hour-long compilation of them all, should you want to grab a gummy and lock in.
-DW
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I’ve been sitting on this one for too long. When I originally decided to plug @centralparkbench in High Praise, I thought I’d be introducing most of you to a whimsical little Instagram account, the kind the internet used to be filled with. But unfortunately (not really), they’ve had a few viral posts in recent weeks so this recommendation may now read as less of a discovery and more of a bandwagon-y thing. No matter, @centralparkbench is a wonderful account that highlights one of my lifelong favorite things: the messages and dedications people put on bench plaques in Central Park. I sorely regret not getting one in Prospect Park for my son when he was born and the price was significantly less. Maybe one day he’ll get me one, instead.
-DW
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Yes, this book came out last year, and yes, it’s been hailed as a masterpiece many times over (largely by people with much more authority than me), but I still feel compelled to tell you myself. After patiently waiting almost six months for a copy from the New York Public Library, I tore through Stephen Graham Jones’ latest novel over the first two weeks of the new year. You’re probably going to want to be somewhat good with horror as a genre before reading, but I’d also argue that the accompanying feelings (discomfort and disgust) are precisely what you’re meant to experience. A nested epistolary tale of a Blackfeet vampire and an aging Lutheran pastor in what is now Montana, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter ultimately unspools as an account of this country’s making: its own kind of horror story, and one that, like vampires fictional or otherwise, endures today.
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What am I listening to these days? Why, the album Dual Minor by Jenno & Peder, thank you for asking. Though it’s by two Danish musicians, it’s the perfect album for the Icelandic concept of gluggaveður, which roughly translates to “window weather.” Fun fact: we briefly talked about launching an indica-leaning edible called Gluggaveður. [Editor’s note: Should we?]
-DW
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