[Chicago, seen from Fisherman’s Wharf.]
At the beginning of this past week my partner and I drove to Chicago for a few days of visiting friends, sightseeing, and eating a wide variety of amazing food. Travel and prep for travel didn’t leave time for much else.
Reading
Having finished M. John Harrison’s Viriconium, I dove into, and completed, Wholly Esenin. It was BRILLIANT! Now I have in front of me Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal. I picked this up based on a recommendation by Jeff VanderMeer somewhere on social media. I am not far enough in to give a report more detailed than “I like it so far.”
Writing
Vacation travel left little time for more than some brief journaling, though I did write the beginnings of a poem after returning home from Chicago. We’ll see if anything comes of it.
Subject: Addiction, Death
Setting: Wasteland
Genre: Dystopian
Listening
Pink Floyd, “The Dogs of War“, from their album A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Seems appropriate, given the state of the world.
Interesting Links
- “Israel: Armageddon?” (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) – This is a good article exploring the possible reasoning behind Israel’s latest tactics, specifically political assassinations. However, the real meat of this link is in the comments, where many Naked Capitalism readers are filling in more details, history, motives, and possibilities around Israel’s ongoing conflict/genocide with Palestine.