Another Week
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I used to really enjoy Twitter — but when Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company in April of 2022, I quit Twitter because I wanted no part of creating content for a platform owned by Elon fucking Musk. For good measure, I also quit Facebook, which had always felt to me like indentured servitude.
Instead, I decided to contribute my two cents on my own internet platform — this website. I launched Another Week on January 1, 2023.
Every week, I post an update and assorted items that I have encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, songs, books, websites, products, news stories, whatever. Each new installment typically attracts two to four total readers.
Meanwhile, events keep unfolding:
- During Week 4, I used artificial intelligence to illustrate a Bob Dylan song.
- During Week 8, my youngest sister, Lori, died of leukemia.
- During Week 23, we learned that my wife’s breast cancer had metastasized to her meninges.
- During Week 35, my wife and I took our last walk together.
- During Week 56, Amy died.
- During Week 79, Joe Biden looked completely lost at his presidential debate.
- During Week 98, with plenty of help from Elon Musk, Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States of America for a second time.
- During Week 113, a house exploded a few blocks from me.
And so on. In between, I have listened to music and podcasts, watched sporting events and old movies, read a few books, and done some gardening.
Tell your friends!
Another Week: Number 103
It’s too cold and dark for gardening and there are strange rumblings. Plus, graphic designer Allan Peters: ‘Do Not Let Fear Be Your Master,’ and ‘Sugarcane’(2024).
Another Week: Number 102
Hair and nails over 50, Cyber Monday deals, ‘My Effin’ Life,’ by Geddy Lee, ‘Cape Fear’ (1962), ‘Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 101
My monk lifestyle, headlight variety, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ (2024), ‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’ (2024), ‘Tender Mercies’ (1983), ‘The Story of Louis Pasteur’ (1936).
Another Week: Number 100
Disappointment awaits, Larry wants my Land’s End jacket, Wisconsin Badgers Women’s Volleyball, ‘The West’ (1996 documentary miniseries), ‘Joan Baez: I Am a Noise’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 99
Living with our choices, Jessica Lang on ‘WTF’ and in ‘The Great Lillian Hall,’ Johnny Cash: ‘Man in Black – Live in Denmark 1971’
Another Week: Number 98
Buy AirPods, people. Plus: ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967), ‘So Rugged and Mountainous,’ by Will Bagley, Election 2024: America’s cancer is back, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ by Joan Didion.
Another Week: Number 97
A new home fragrance solution, Donald J. Trump degenerates further in campaign’s last week, Halloween 2024.
Another Week: Number 96
Imagination gains elasticity. Canvassing and voting. Tim Walz rally in Racine. ‘John McGivern’s Main Streets’ (with Emmy Fink). Michelle Obama’s speech in Kalamazoo. ‘His Three Daughters’ (2023).
Another Week: Number 95
NFL overdose. Trump sways to music for 39 minutes, calls for military action against Democrats, and dislikes Google. Also: ‘Lincoln’ (2012).
Another Week: Number 94
Hurricane Milton follows Hurricane Helene and the GOP disinformation machine goes into high gear. Also: ‘Big’ (1988) and ‘Funny Girl’ (1968).
Another Week: Number 93
Gregg Allman song in a Crown Royal commercial. Trump is a Batman villain. Also: ‘Bend in the River’ (1952).
Another Week: Number 92
More fall-like weather, Hurricane Helene, Mideast turmoil, Republicans stoke hate and fear, Chicago Bears and Indiana Fever lose, and a candidate is ‘mentally impaired.’ Also: ’Will & Harper’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 91
Another Trump assassination attempt, cable news commercials, ‘Ol’ 55’ by Tom Waits, ‘State Fair’ (1933)
Another Week: Number 90
Monarch butterflies and window repair, Bears beat Titans, Pablo Torre: Wright Thompson on Caitlin Clark, Trump/Harris debate, ‘Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 89
Crispy lawns, school and football return, ‘Impolitic with John Heilemann’: Nicholas Kristof, Jonny Lyons & the Pride at Paddock Lake, Chicago Bears on ‘Hard Knocks,’ ‘Faye’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 88
Dew points and skincare commercials. Also: CNN’s interview of Kamala Harris and Time Walz, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (1969), ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (1975), and ‘Bridesmaids (2011).’
Another Week: Number 87
Some people acknowledge each other, some don’t. Also: Lexie Hull of the Indiana Fever, and the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Another Week: Number 86
The construction noise at Mitchell School is picking up. I voted. I moved my hummingbird feeder. Also: ‘L.A. Confidential ’(1997).
Another Week: Number 85
Picnic with Amy’s family, ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes,’ Kamala Harris adds Tim Walz, ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (1962), ‘Rachel Maddow Presents Ultra,’ Season 2
Another Week: Number 84
Crickets. Bears 21, Texans 17. The Killers at Lollapalooza. ‘Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants.‘ ‘As I Lay Dying,‘ by William Faulkner.
Another Week: Number 83
A power emerges from the stillness. Racine yard waste hurdles. Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris. The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.
Another Week: Number 82
I have petunias and salvias, but where are the hummingbirds? Also: the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Another Week: Number 81
A steamy, sticky week: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ (2024), women’s tennis at Wimbledon, yard work, the St. Lucy Festival, shrimp cocktail, and Donald Trump shot in Pennsylvania.
Another Week: Number 80
Fourth of July fireworks out of Apocalypse Now, Jewel on WTF, Presidential immunity and a sense of doom, the Tour de France and Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
Another Week: Number 79
2024 is half-over — and sixty-four years after Kennedy-Nixon, the presidential debate tradition has deteriorated into utter absurdity.
Another Week: Number 78
The June heat wave, Trump in Racine, a drive-by shooting, and tornados. Plus, ‘Call Northside 777’ (1948) and ‘Black Narcissus’ (1947).
