The Long March
Leap years deny us the fast ramp into March and Daylight Savings delivers the coup de grace. Let's burn through the rest of this sucker with Potpourri panache.
Serotonin Blaster!
Depression™ has been stronger than usual this week, so I summoned a blast of color from these gerberas to shock my senses. It works—when I'm in the kitchen, anyway.
Dionysus the Areopagite
I forget what this chap is known for, but classical antiquity has a lot of great names, no? Herodotus, Pliny the Elder, Seneca the Younger, Lucian of Samosata...
Peeping Tom (1960)
Leonora and I just finished watching through the filmography of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, aka the Archers. Michael Powell's solo effort Peeping Tom came after this fruitful period of collaboration, but it deserves to be ranked with the Archers' best. A lurid and masterful study of voyeurism, misogyny, and the cinematic gaze that rankled critics and audiences at the dawn of the 60s, this vividly modern-feeling film is getting a shiny 4K restoration for theatrical and home media later this spring.
Lucian of Samosa
This is my classical antiquity name. I made this joke a while ago; I am repeating it because it is true.
Convalescing
Good word. In simple terms, it means healing from something. With chronic pain and other issues, that's how free weekends can feel: less like relaxation, more like convalescing.
World Bear Day
This past Saturday was World Bear Day. I did not really notice because I live in a permanent state of Bear Awareness. I really love bears!
—Dara Khan