How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
This book sat on my bedside table for six months. I looked at it every day, tucked it into my work bag on multiple occasions, and brought it with me on several trips but I was unable to open the cover. I was paralyzed by the guilt of being wrapped into the attention economy, and I did not feel like I was ready or able to give my meager time to “nothing” quite yet. I was wrong. I wish I had cracked it open the […]
The Little Red Stroller by Joshua Furst
The Little Red Stroller is a unique idea for sharing, caring, learning about community and diversity. Joshua Furst takes us on an adventure of a life time. Or at least, the life time of one special red stroller. We first see a mother holding her young baby and off in the background, a red stroller that will take mom and baby on many adventures. Then one day, they meet another family in need of a stroller, and that now-not-so young baby, tells them to take […]
Joel McHale is on the freebies list along with Bret McKenzie and Donald Glover; when he came to a local comedy festival I was 112% in, and was in no way disappointed. I liked him before, but after he made several consecutive pyramid scheme jokes with the local royalty behind Amway IN ATTENDANCE, I can say it blossomed into love. It was a thing of beauty; like the rake gag from The Simpsons it started funny, got tedious, then cycled back to hilarity again. I […]
