Escape to Poirot

I recommended this before during the election season but if the weirdness of current times is getting to you, escape to another era via the excellent Agatha Christie's Poirot series. 

Fine acting, clever plots, and likable characters.

Check it out.

Quote of the Day

If you live today, you breathe in nihilism.

- Flannery O'Connor

Meetings

Meetings. 

Meetings to talk about meetings. 

Meetings that are dependent upon the successful conclusion of other meetings. 

Meetings that need to be switched with other meetings. 

Meetings to clarify what was decided at earlier meetings. 

Meetings with future participants of meetings so we'll all know one another when those meetings take place.

Meetings to reduce the number of meetings.

Meetings.

Monday Morning Trailer

The trailer for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets."

MuseumHack

Nick Gray on "How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love Museums."

First Paragraph

Richard Henderson, judge of a back-country court in Colonial North Carolina, possessed, to borrow his own words, "A rapturous idea of property." He was not alone. Many Americans of his time, among them Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, and George Washington, were similarly inspired. During the energetic decades preceding the American Revolution (and for many years thereafter), speculation in wilderness land was considered an honorable way of growing wealthy. The dealer's main problem, aside from finding suitable areas of money-making size, lay in outwitting his government.

- From The American Heritage History of The Great West by David Lavender

Great Book Titles

Quote of the Day

There's a theory that I call 'the five chimps theory.' In zoology, you can predict the mood and behavior pattern of any chimp by which five chimps they hang out with the most. Choose your five chimps carefully.

- Naval Ravikant

Music for Thought

Aaron Copland's "Letter from Home."

Quick Look

The trailers for "Swallows and Amazons" and "Baby Driver."