Recently read: Nothing Happened (Williams, 2026)

Recently watched: Safety Last! (Newmeyer and Taylor, 1923), Workingman’s Death (Glawogger, 2005), Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007), Dr. No (Young, 1962), Magellan (Diaz, 2025).

Workingman’s Death was hard to watch in places. The tight spaces for the coal miners gave me shivers. The open-air slaughterhouse was … I can’t quite describe it. Disgusting? Repugnant? Horrific? How can that go on day after day after day?

Magellan was slow and beautiful and amazing and a stark (necessary!) contrast to the “hero worship” that I read in 1980s middle school and high school textbooks.