Recently read: The Chaos Protocols (Gordon White). Still reading The Living Great Lakes (Jerry Dennis), started The Red Goddess (Peter Grey).

Recently watched: Twin Peaks: The Return (2017), Thief (1981), Space is the Place (1974). Got interested in watching Space while listening to a Weird Studies podcast during a train ride across Michigan.

(By the way, you should subscribe to Weird Studies. It is really good.)

It’s that time of year again…

First we get the buckets ready, clean the pans, gather firewood. Late in the winter, it’s maple syrup time…

Recently watched: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Twin Peaks seasons 1 and 2 (and started season 3 last night), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014).

Reading: The Living Great Lakes (Jerry Dennis) and The Chaos Protocols (Gordon White).

From the NASA Planetary Defense blog:

While still an extremely low possibility, additional observations and analysis of asteroid 2024 YR4 indicate that its impact probability with Earth has increased to a 2.3% chance on Dec. 22, 2032. Ongoing observations from ground-based telescopes involved with the International Asteroid Warning Network will continue while the asteroid is still visible through April, after which it will be too faint to observe until around June 2028.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will also observe the asteroid in March 2025 to better assess the asteroid’s size. Currently the asteroid is estimated to be 130-300 feet across.