what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
I attended the DaCapo Chamber Choir’s concert “My Spirit Sang All Day.” DaCapo is celebrating its 25th anniversary and aside from the one premiere all of the other pieces are ones they’ve sung before. As such, this was a very satisfying concert for me as I knew a bunch of the pieces. The Whitacre was […]
{5/5} “The only security we have is our neighbors’ approval. An archist can break a law and hope to get away unpunished, but you can’t ‘break’ a custom; it’s the framework of your life with other people. We’re only just beginning to feel what it’s like to be revolutionaries… And it isn’t comfortable.” The Dispossessed […]
{5/5} “Each person contemplated the small fuzzy blot of light that would give rise to all of them, contemplated the fact that they were farther out in space than anyone had ever been before, contemplated the vastly empty darkness all around them. Six billion light-years.” Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer, published in 1996 Due to […]
{5/5} “This ship is outdated and smells like Borg.” — T’Lyn, on the USS Voyager Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, aired in 2023 When the USS Voyager is being prepared to be a museum the crew of the Cerritos visits and they find it’s still a dangerous place. Mariner, Boimler, and Tendi all get […]
Here’s Thom Hartmann pointing out that studies have shown that a universal basic income works. In other words, people in poverty given the necessities don’t succumb to laziness the way that Republicans disingenuously warn but instead become productive. How Can Poverty Be Fixed? We Already Know
{4.5/5} “Your uncle is in parking garages because they fund his more important work… Which is to seek out, fund and create the sort of technologies and services that bring disruptive change to existing industrial and social paradigms, and offer them, on a confidential basis, to interested businesses and governments.” Starter Villain by John Scalzi, […]
{5/5} “I’ve just never been punched in the face with beauty before.” Elemental, released in 2023 Bernie and Cinder, fire elementals, leave their home because of a big storm. Eventually their daughter Ember works in the fire shop with her dad. She even beats his record for making deliveries. But she has a temper, and […]
{5/5} “The Breaths were wonderful. It was more than just the beauty or the ability to hear changes in sound and sense intrinsically the distinct hues of color. It was more even that the ability to sense life around her. More than the sounds of the wind and the tones of people talking, or her […]
{5/5} “Ferris Bueller might take a day off but Matthew Broderick does not.” — Matthew Broderick Only Murders in the Building season 3, aired in 2023 Oliver is directing a Broadway play, which Hollywood actor Ben is starring in. His friend Charles is also in it. And he found a great actor he didn’t know […]
I hadn’t seen anything by this guy before but he has a lot of insightful things to say on this topic. His name is Jack Edwards: the complicated ethics of ghostwriters + celebrity books He points out: some celebrities are more transparent than others about their ghostwriters saying a book was the fastest selling debut […]