Sleeping all day is okay
I dreamed last night that some writers I knew were involved in a TV reboot of the much-loved film of an equally beloved book of queer Afro-Caribbean mermaids. Like so much of the art I dream about, I deeply resent it not existing when I wake. The dark-skinned merman with kelp locs was gorgeous.
My daily routine is not terribly affected by the general work-for-home edict, but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch is home from the Somerville for the next week, if the theater remains open that long. The Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Brattle, and the Harvard Film Archive are already closed into or through April. I am also glad we got the bulk of our apocalypse shopping over with last month. Yesterday at Star Market the checkout lines were full aisles deep—I bailed and bought my couple of sundries from the surprisingly un-slammed CVS across the parking lot—and I have gathered from social media that the supermarkets today were even worse. I was heartened by this tweet. Panic-buying should always involve panic-buying for others.
1. This is a nice editorial from Tablet Magazine: "What Communal Responsibility Looks Like." "Every Jew knows the principle of pikuach nefesh, which allows for almost any commandment to be overridden to save a life. Nothing is greater than human life. If we act now, together, we can save lives."
2. From running into a pre-Code musical on TCM with Sally O'Neil in it, I had occasion to discover that Girl of the Port (1930) now exists on DVD. I wouldn't have thought there was that much demand for it. I suppose it's a good sign, in terms of the increasing availability of pre-Code movies. I would have warned the audience about the radioactively superfluous racism if I'd been writing that copy, though.
3. I have just been informed that André Breton's sandwich board does not count as an early example of shitposting, but I still like it.
My daily routine is not terribly affected by the general work-for-home edict, but
spatch is home from the Somerville for the next week, if the theater remains open that long. The Coolidge Corner Theatre, the Brattle, and the Harvard Film Archive are already closed into or through April. I am also glad we got the bulk of our apocalypse shopping over with last month. Yesterday at Star Market the checkout lines were full aisles deep—I bailed and bought my couple of sundries from the surprisingly un-slammed CVS across the parking lot—and I have gathered from social media that the supermarkets today were even worse. I was heartened by this tweet. Panic-buying should always involve panic-buying for others.1. This is a nice editorial from Tablet Magazine: "What Communal Responsibility Looks Like." "Every Jew knows the principle of pikuach nefesh, which allows for almost any commandment to be overridden to save a life. Nothing is greater than human life. If we act now, together, we can save lives."
2. From running into a pre-Code musical on TCM with Sally O'Neil in it, I had occasion to discover that Girl of the Port (1930) now exists on DVD. I wouldn't have thought there was that much demand for it. I suppose it's a good sign, in terms of the increasing availability of pre-Code movies. I would have warned the audience about the radioactively superfluous racism if I'd been writing that copy, though.
3. I have just been informed that André Breton's sandwich board does not count as an early example of shitposting, but I still like it.