Yeah I wish Eggars had focused more on that, and turned the tech part into the company infringing on workers rights and using it to watch and track them (I mean they do that in the book but its not the focus). I think ultimately it suffered from him trying to go to big and broad with the "ills of technology".
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Me too! Can't wait for the new album to drop so I've be compensating by catching up with all their previous work which is phenomenal as well.
I didn't connect Mountain Man and Sylvan Esso when their album first came out and was very surprised when I found out that they shared a singer. I love them both but they are also quite different.
New Kendrick is as the fellow kids say, "straight fire". At least thats what I think they say - who knows anymore.
Mac Demarco's new album comes out next Friday but I can't get enough of the singles that have been released so far there are only four of them so far but its getting me super hyped (which is a weird way to be about the chilled out Mac) for the rest of it.
Yeah - he's an interesting writer who has written good pieces before and I was actually surprised at how heavy handed this was. Maybe this was his attempt at a genre piece because he doesn't really have a lot of those out there. Or maybe he just was channeling his inner Franzen.
Yeah, the book definitely suffered from Eggars not knowing how to weld the anti-tech together without coming across rather Luddite-ish. It definitely reminded me of some of the poorer episodes of Black Mirror, where you're just supposed to be afraid of technology rather than humanity abusing technology in pursuit of…
Did you see this New Yorker piece where Trump pretended to be an "anonymous top WH official" to get his spin out there. It is just hilarious. http://www.newyorker.com/ne…
Look Kevin, I'll have you know that I go through rice vinegar and mirin rather quickly enough to justify their purposes. That and sesame oil.
I have! Its very similar to my love of Donna Tartt. I explored all the earlier stuff and it just made me that much more anxious for new stuff!
I really enjoyed Station Eleven and I hope that Emily St. John Mandel is working on her next books because I love her writing.
Just started The Sympathizer on my trip to NY and am about 100 pages in. Loving it so far, just really well done and I can tell that its going get me interested in a binge of Vietnam history. So if anyone has an good recommendations for great books on Vietnam and specifically the war that would be amazing.
And the cheese! As much as I love the blue box - it doesn't compare to the cheesy goodness of the real thing, especially if you are heavy handed with the cheese like me.
Then you get to enjoy my favorite part of mac and cheese. I always make more cheese sauce then I need to (when I make my own roux) and I save the leftovers. The next morning I will heat up the leftovers until they are hot and runny again and I pour it over a piece or two of toast. Oh man that is so good. It's like…
I've made pumpkin mac and cheese (with an actual pumpkin) before which came out pretty damn good but its definitely only worth it for the seasonality of it. I prefer to make good ole mac and cheese which is much quicker and honestly 9 out of 10 times is better. The only thing that I do that might be considered…
It's a shame that your standards of great can't include Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz.
I mean its Edgar Wright, he's got a pretty damn good track record of great movies.