Today’s Just One Thing is a Children’s Day special.
I usually turn my nose up at children (but ogle at babies’ chubby cheeks on YouTube), and can’t fathom why people would want to have kids in a world like this. Perhaps, deep inside, I’m jealous of the optimism they must still nurture, even when everything around us seems like a raging dumpster fire.
I found this one quite by accident. I was looking for a specific book for a project I’m working on and this intriguing little search result with the magic words “weird old books” called out to me. Three of my favourite things in one sentence:
You probably know that all maps are kinda incorrect. Representing a mostly spherical planet as a two-dimensional map is impossible without distorting something – shape, direction, size. If you’re a flat-earther, naturally, you won’t have this problem, so you can just skip this Just One Thing altogether.
This a short post today because, guess what – I’m actually on the road for the first time in 30 months. Yay!
But today’s post isn’t particularly sweet.
With the FIFA men’s World Cup coming up, a recent comment by former Qatar football player and ambassador for this year’s event, Khalid Salman, about homosexuality being “damage in the mind” should’ve sparked way more outrage than it did. All we got from FIFA? Crickets.
People often say you can find all sorts of things in a thrift store, so what would you do if you found old photographs, 35-millimetre slides and film canisters? What would you be inspired to do?
David Gutenmacher started a TikTok and Instagram account, hoping to put these frayed memories to good use and help them find their way back to the families to whom they belonged.
My first reaction as I read Proiti’s post about her struggles with journaling was “Hah”, followed by a really undignified snort. If we lived in the same city, I would have asked her out, bought her her favourite beverage in the largest size they had available, sat her down and whispered, “been there”.
Have you ever had a character or situation in a movie speak to you in a language that no critique or review column could catch? It happens to me quite often. It doesn’t have to be the main character or plot point; it could be anything in the movie that resonates and hits the right cord. At its core, cinema is after all, about characters and their actions – a beautiful, cohesive picture nuanced by sound design, cinematography and music.
Welcome to November. Is it really that hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain? I dunno. But what I do know is that I scored higher than 73% of people who took a new creativity test.