On thing about writing these weeknotes, is a better awareness of the week numbers. Just about ten left in 2024, which I expect to fly by.
We had a rare Sunday jam this week due to scheduling conflicts. The vibe is different on a Sunday evening–looking down the barrel of another week verses having just wrapped one up, I guess. A good jam nonetheless.
On Saturday, we had the privilege of a behind the scenes tour of the Perelman Performing Arts Center courtesy of Open House New York. The PAC made several appearances in my One a Day project (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), but this was only the second time I’d been inside. This tour gave me a whole new appreciation of the design challenges at this site. The doors pictured here separate the “spine” of the building which serves as backstage from the outer corridor. There are better pictures from our visit on insta.
While we were in the area, we had lunch at Blue Smoke. As mentioned last week, they will be closing soon. In my 20+ years of dining at both this and the original 27th street location, I can’t recall a bad experience. They will be missed. I’ll especially miss that macaroni and cheese–delicious.
Thanks to @geniodiabolico, I started to re-watch Homicide: Life on the Street while listening to to the Homicide: Life on Repeat podcast (not simultaneously). I was a fan when it was on NBC, but I missed a lot of the episodes when they aired, especially the latter half of the series. I usually wasn’t in front of the TV at 10 on Fridays and I wasn’t recording it. Looking forward to seeing it all this time around.
Links
- Dave Winer’s 30 years of blogging, and much more
- Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
- It feels like 2004 again.
I hope he’s right, time for a change.
A whole slew US political links some terrifying…
- Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens
- Deportation Nation (audio)
- MAGA Militants to Riot on December 11
- We Are All Don Bacon’s Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain
- Letters from an American: October 13, 2024, October 14, 2024, October 15, 2024
- Trump’s GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants
- Save Your Vote Guide to Share Far and Wide