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Flavor of the month: horror (real and imagined).
Burning wildfires have expanded and more are incoming as B.C. heats up. You can tell I am a bit worried. So far, it has been fairly cool with enough rain to ward off the worst here in the North, but I suspect things will change quickly come July.
With all the awful developments globally, I have reduced the quantity of news consumed and upped the distractions. That includes watching more cricket (during very inconvenient hours) and catching up on an impossibly long 'To Watch' list. The infamous "Dreadlock Holiday" a footnote to the former, while the latter elicited some ramblings on an underseen horror gem: 2008's Lake Mungo.
In other updates, I explored what my jobs past and present have actually entailed and came across a couple of short films that offered complementary takes from very different vantage points on the driving forces, appeal, purpose, value and drawbacks of building downtowns. At least the way they are currently imagined, rife with skyscraping institutions of finance. Or as some geographers refer to them: "crazy monuments to stupidity".
Still waiting for summer proper,
Pratyush |
