12/7

i'm thankful for american war, which was a very gripping dystopian novel with a richly imagined world, even though i found its approach to race (in the context of a second american civil war)...lacking, an absence i kept thinking would be filled with critique or satire or something happening and then just...wasn't, imo. i'm thankful for the book of joan, which was a very trippy dystopian novel that felt like if kathy acker directed the oa. i'm thankful for the woman who smashed codes, which i started last night.

i'm thankful for reality winner, who is an american hero.

i'm thankful for the first three episodes of the new season of black mirror, which have various holes that d and i like to make fun of together but i'm thankful that making fun of the show is part of what makes it enjoyable and not such a dour bummer machine (i'm thankful, though, for those bummers, thankful, re: "what if phones but too much," for critiques of technology, however ham-handed or melodramatic they may sometimes be, which i think are always more useful than empty acceptance or celebration of the status quo). i'm thankful for jesse plemons.

i'm thankful for the very important poll i started yesterday about whether bruno mars is sexy, which you still have time to vote in if you haven't yet. i'm thankful that we watched a trifecta of weird music videos last night after dinner: finesse (remix), motorsport, and family feud.

i'm thankful for this perfect tweet. i'm thankful for the etch to their own newsletter, which is a great place to learn about poetry (i'm thankful also that pome is back). i'm thankful tinyletter got a reprieve (but also weirdly kind of disappointed because imo mailchimp is a much better app).