December 2024 ⁂ The clanking of crystal
I’m Chad Comello and this is Chadabout, a monthly update about what I've been writing, reading, and doing.
Hey all,
To quote Death Cab for Cutie, the patron saints of emo millennials:
So this is the new year
And I don’t feel any different
The clanking of crystal
Explosions off in the distance
Cheers to you if at the stroke of midnight you’re clanking crystal at a fancy party; I’ll be home in my warm bed, long asleep and dreaming about what 2025 will bring 🥂
On to the links…
✍️ MY RECENT POSTS
My 8th annual year in review.
On my baffling adult introduction to Pokemon.
Board games, card games, and other of my sons’ media of the moment.
🔗 FROM THE INTERWEBS
Uncovering the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris.
The chilling sound of the Aztec death whistle. [Trigger warning: it’s creepy AF!]
One dad’s collection of hundreds of VHS tapes with beautifully hand-drawn labels.
Looney Tunes but just the backgrounds.
A nice interactive history of Notre-Dame cathedral in honor of its post-fire restoration.
French archaeologists discovered a message-in-a-bottle from 1825.
💬 QUOTE
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
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Photo: The local pond on a crazy foggy morning.