Akaylah Ellison recounts fleeing the fires in LA, and what it’s like to come to terms with (potentially) losing your memories when everything burns. (Popsugar)
Notre Dame is a longtime rival of my alma mater, USC, but I like Penn State even less than Notre Dame, so I guess I’m glad Notre Dame beat Penn State in the college football playoffs. Anyway, here are June Squib and Scarlett Johansson looking like a couple of lady detectives out to solve the case of the grand dame’s runaway grandchild. (Go Fug Yourself)
I guess this is me giving up, I don’t have the energy for Novak Djokovic talking about how he never got the COVID vaccine because he’s so healthy (as if healthy people didn’t get sick and die!). Whatever, dude. Just glad I’m not in a position to cross paths with someone I KNOW doesn’t value public health. (Celebitchy)
Speaking of fire and Los Angeles, here is Matt Zoller Seitz elegizing what we are losing in real time—the nucleus of the entertainment industry, a town already pushed to the brink by rent hikes and cost of living crises, and compassion giving way to conspiracy theories.
We’re seeing a way of life disappear, to be replaced with something else—who knows what. There will be rebuilding and regrowth, but what’s gone can never be replaced. (RogerEbert.com)
This week on Things Found in the Walls or in This Case, The Attic, a box of hundred-year-old letters found in an attic shed light on the mysterious collapse of a Key West bank and its maybe-shady vice president. Was E.M. Martin an especially convincing con man, or an amnesiac? You decide on Things Found in the Walls or in This Case, The Attic! (Atlas Obscura)
