Another Week

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 Musk. For good measure, I also quit Facebook, which had always felt to me like creative servitude.

Eventually, 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, with assorted items that I’ve encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, songs, books, websites, products, news stories … whatever.

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, national hemorrhoid 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.
• During Week 159, federal agents executed an American mom on a residential block in Minneapolis.

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.