Currently reading: Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) by Alexandra Petri 📚
Not sure how I scored this, but Alexandra Petri’s new book is ready for me to pick up at the library!
Current Things: May 2023
Currently Reading
- Still nothing! But I really need to start Sea of Tranquility!
Currently Watching
- Mrs. Davis, Season 1
- Succession, Season 4
- Yellowjackets, Season 2
- Ted Lasso, Season 3
- The Mandalorian, Season 3
- Party Down, Season 3
Currently In Queue
- Shrinking, Season 1
- Babylon
- Aftersun
- Emily the Criminal
- After Yang
- Speak No Evil
- Catherine Called Birdy
- Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
- The Bear, Season 1
- Reservation Dogs, Season 1
Currently Listening
- Saved by the City
- Dithering (subscription required)
- The Talk Show
- Accidental Tech Podcast
Concurrently
- April is always a weird movie month because new releases worth your time come out, but I’m still trying to catch up with 2022
- It’s also been a great month for TV with Ted Lasso, Yellowjackets, and Succession’s return, as well as a new Damon Lindelof series and Star Trek: Picard sticking the landing!
- I got most of the way through Metroid Prime: Remastered…before I remembered that you have to collect all those stupid artifacts. So I paused to play Zelda: A Link to the Past and brush up on my Breath of the Wild skills before Tears of the Kingdom’s release on May 12
Finished in April:
Star Trek: Picard: in a show that exists purely for nostalgic reasons, it finally remembers what we were nostalgic for in the first place.
(I’ll probably have a bit more to say on this one later)
Beau is Afraid: it’s not only beau jordonwadlington.com
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: what an emotional mess of a movie. It wasn’t great at a lot, but it deserves a lot of credit for fully considering the immeasurable loss of Chadwick Boseman jordonwadlington.com
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Worth the price of admission for a couple of soulful Jack Black ballads jordonwadlington.com
Tetris: if you can suspend an L-shaped block’s worth of disbelief, there’s a lot of fun to be had here jordonwadlington.com
Previously, in Current Things…
April 2023
March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
It’s that time of year when the solar panels produce more energy than we use! It’s always fun to see a negative electric bill!
(you can tell which days we had to charge the car)
Would love to see this. The convenience of DCA can’t be overstated
New coalition pushes for more long-distance flights at Reagan National
(For those that don’t know: DCA is restricted* to flights under 1250 miles– so basically Kansas– as a push to get more people to fly out of Dulles)
*As with all things concerning Congress, some congresspeople have successfully created carveouts to this rule, which is why I have a nonstop to Vegas from there in two weeks
I vastly prefer to work from home than go into the office, but it’s nice to change things up every now and then. Got a lunch meeting tomorrow, a day trip to Baltimore next week, and a week-long trip to California in two weeks.
Ugh, stopped my watch too early and recorded my run at 3.99 instead of 4.00 miles. Definitely not gonna be thinking about that .01 miles all day.
Star Trek: Picard: in a show that exists purely for nostalgic reasons, it finally remembers what we were nostalgic for in the first place.
(I’ll probably have a bit more to say on this one later)
One of these days I’ll remember that it’s Mastodon with two Os instead of Mastadon with two As, but today is not that day
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: what an emotional mess of a movie. It wasn’t great at a lot, but it deserves a lot of credit for fully considering the immeasurable loss of Chadwick Boseman
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 2022
What an emotional mess of a movie. It wasn't great at a lot, but it deserves a lot of credit for fully considering the immeasurable loss of Chadwick Boseman
Ran across someone at work yesterday who has a last name that matches one of my text shortcuts and so all day she got text expanded to “Ms. ‘preciate ye!”
Sura for Julie’s birthday!
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Worth the price of admission for a couple of soulful Jack Black ballads
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, 2023
Worth the price of admission for a couple of soulful Jack Black ballads
I like to use my Current Things page as a monthly snapshot of what I’m consuming and the thoughts I have about them. If my blog is the primary source document, Current Things is its combo first-look movie trailer and hand-curated card catalog.
I find that knowing I’m going to write a “hot take” of a book, movie, TV show season, etc. has made me engage more with what I’m consuming. I like that these reviews are my visceral reaction. If I end up having more or different thoughts, I’ll follow up with them.
Bumpy ride into STL, storms all day, and the Cards lost bad, but…I got to ride three trains, drink some ($14) beers, and watch some baseball so I’m gonna call the day a win
