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Jordon Wadlington

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Asteroid City, 2023

- "I still don't understand the play."
- "It doesn't matter. Just keep telling the story."

My extended family were huge parrot heads and I grew up listening to a lot of Jimmy Buffett. This one is hitting me hard this morning.

Jimmy Buffett, musical ‘mayor of Margaritaville,’ dies at 76

“Some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic, but I had a good life all the way”

I’m thankful for slow days where I can just think and catch up. They don’t happen often, but I feel so much better prepared when I get them

abstract apple triangle

A triangle with the sides being made up of three apple products &10;

Current Things: September 2023

Currently Reading

Currently Watching

  • Justified: City Primeval
  • Foundation, Season 2
  • What We Do in the Shadows, Season 5
  • The Afterparty, Season 2

Currently In Queue

Currently Listening

Concurrently

  • I’m committing to beating Zelda this month. Well maybe not beating it, but at least finding all the Tears and then fucking around for another five months before I face Ganon

Finished in August:

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2: continues to be a delight and such a strong reminder that Star Trek>>>>>>Star Wars

The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3: this show perfectly captures the concept of the wealth gospel taken to its logical conclusions. It captures a level of absurdity that absolutely essential to understanding any of this

Talk to Me: there's nothing like the energy of a low-budget horror movie jordonwadlington.com
Oppenheimer: there's no way to responsibly wield power. Containment is the best you can hope for jordonwadlington.com
Barbie: "To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway" jordonwadlington.com

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 16: continues to shine a light on the worst of us– and we’re all the better for it

Previously, in Current Things…

August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 16: continues to shine a light on the worst of us–and we’re all the better for it

Congrats to all the kids starting school this week! But extra congrats to all the parents who made it through another summer!!

I have so many questions about the NYT comparing an economist conference to Cannes

Are economists bringing theories to this conference to be judged by a jury of their peers?

Do they hand out an award for best theory and best economist?

Is there sustained applause at the end of every presentation?

Screenshot from the New York Times evening newsletter with “think Cannes for economist” highlighted

All y’all posting about Hurricane Hillary when all the cool kids are weathering TS Franklin

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2: continues to be a delight and such a strong reminder that Star Trek »»»»> Star Wars

The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3: this show perfectly captures the concept of the wealth gospel taken to its logical conclusions. It captures a level of absurdity that absolutely essential to understanding any of this

Talk to Me, 2022

There’s nothing like the energy of a low-budget horror movie

Kids are with their grandparents in Kentucky, so it’s time for our annual bike ride around DC eating and drinking everything as we go

Julie and Jordon riding bikes through the streets of Washington DC with nary a kid in sight

Oppenheimer, 2023

There's no way to responsibly wield power. Containment is the best you can hope for

Barbie, 2023

"To be honest, when I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest anyway"

Third weekend for Barbie and a completely full theater. Love to see it!

Today was a good day

(i.e., I had some Taco John’s)

Current Things: August 2023

Currently Reading

Currently Watching

  • Justified: City Primeval
  • Foundation, Season 2
  • What We Do in the Shadows, Season 5
  • The Afterparty, Season 2
  • The Righteous Gemstones, Season 3
  • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 2
  • It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 16

Currently In Queue

Currently Listening

Concurrently

  • Still playing Zelda. Still just messing around and not really trying to beat it.
  • I’ve been listening to Maggie Rogers latest album on near repeat for the past month. The first album was good, but this one is great
  • Alamo Drafthouse is running a second-month-free deal for their Season pass (i.e. their version of MoviePass). We got it for the next two months to knock out all the summer movies!

Finished in July:

The Bear, Season 2: together, we’re more than the sum of our parts, but someone needs to remind the chefs of that

Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One: if the definition of a perfect movie is absolutely nailing what the filmmakers set out to do, this is the perfect moviejordonwadlington.com

The Bear, Season 1: Life is relentless and only each other can help it relent

I kept waiting for this movie to come into its own, but it never really did. It felt like a rehash of stories that other Pixar movies have done much better. Those water and fire effects, though! jordonwadlington.com
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: I appreciate the movie’s rumination on getting older, but I’m not sure enough of it was there to justify its existence outside of a nostalgia trip. Still enjoyed it, though.

(also– as expected–anything can be made better by adding some Phoebe Waller-Bridge) jordonwadlington.com

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: I think a lot of stuff happened in this movie jordonwadlington.com

Previously, in Current Things…

July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022

Every time we get through a week in the summer with the kids in camp, I feel like we’re getting away with something

Fellow Siri Watch Face users: watchOS 10 provides no obvious way to access the new widget system, but…

I’ve noticed (at least on the latest beta) if you spin the Digital Crown when the watch face is “inactive”, you can sometimes get the new widgets to launch.

Not consistent, but hope!

“You seem like you have it all together”, someone tells me as I contemplate how to fit four pizza boxes in the recycling bin

Season 2 of The Bear was so good, but (trying to avoid spoilers) the Claire character didn’t exist outside of her interactions with Carmy. (Name two specific things about her!) On a show that does such a good job of having the characters drive the plot, it was disappointing to see the reverse here.

The Bear, Season 2: together, we’re more than the sum of our parts, but someone needs to remind the chefs of that

We can’t do Barbenheimer until the second week of August. But as a movie-theater apologist, godspeed to all that are observing

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023

If the definition of a perfect movie is absolutely nailing what the filmmakers set out to do, this is the perfect movie