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Clowns at the circus

Short recommendations, reviews, and cautionary tales about horror in fiction (mostly movies). Read through the archives and subscribe here.

• Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene
  "Before we rolled out through the gate, I’d tell myself that I didn’t need to worry, because I was already dead. The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive."
• Albert Camus: The philosopher who resisted despair
  "The problem wasn’t that Sisyphus had to roll his boulder up a hill forever; it’s that he had to roll it alone."
• Crashing Clowns: Human Noise Raises Stress and Hostility
  Same with me, clowns, same with me.
• Against Pickleball - Club Leftist Tennis
  I'm here for the needless politicization of tennis versus pickeball.
• MIT engineers build load-bearing structures from tree forks.
  Biomimicry meet reclaimed waste product.
• People Who Love War Hate Cities
  "Cities are where we see each other.  People who don’t want to see hate that."
• Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
  How much do you know about lines?
• The Experimental City
  Documentary on Minnesota's failed attempt at a city of the future in the late 1960's.
• We Need To Talk: Marriage Counseling with Capitalism Itself
  "Humanity, how are you doing on this beautiful Monday?"
• Lights at Sea
  Amazing visualization of European lighthouses showing light color, actual pattern, and radius of visibility.