I don’t recall much of the Covid years. Do any of us? But I do remember being amped for Bob Odenkirk’s John Wick moment in Nobody. I am, of course, a fan of the Sleeping Assassin subgenre and Nobody was a nice take on it.
It was obviously set up to make a franchise going forward, but, you know, Covid. I don’t think it did any numbers at the box office because nothing did anything at the box office back then.
I don’t normally do this here, but these fucking bagels are the bomb. They’re from NZ. They taste great. But the nutritional deets on them are insane. 10g of protein and 17g of fibre in every bagel. That’s madness. You could slather one of these bad boys in cream cheese and blueberry jam and still call it a health snack.
Gideon Haigh has a lovely write-up (naturally) of Ian Redpath, who passed away over the weekend. I’m not sure why but he is the first Australian Test cricketer I recall ever being aware of. And what I recall is watching him bat and thinking he was impossible to get out.
I enjoyed this bit of filler from The Atlantic, (AppleNews link) strongarming their staffers for some free copy around the premise of stuff from the culture they’d like to get rid of and stuff they’d like to come back.
Example?
I was weirdly upset to read that Pam Heydon is stepping out of the soundproof booth.
Hello. My name is JB, and I am a terrible procrastinator. Always have been. Always will be.
But I try not to let it drag me down to hell. Just because I was born and remain a degenerate time waster, down in my meat and bones, doesn’t mean I have to waste every hour of every day.
It took me a long time to learn that and to learn what I could do about it.
I work on a few projects I can’t talk about, usually because they belong to other people. Screenplays, TV pilots, adaptations, that sort of thing. But occasionally, one breaks free into the light.
And so, I’m gonna do a weird thing here. Imma send you to LinkedIn!
Because the guys from Valens Games have me doing an adaptation of one of their strategic policy RPGs, Sleeping Giants.
The Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza Advent Calendar (with Falling Hans Gruber to track the days of Christmas.
In my quest to read something, anything other than US political news at the moment, I came across this great recipe for Mac-n-Cheese. How to Make Mac and Cheese like a 47 year old Black Man:
