Scribbles and Bits

Rogan: I found a copy of Charles Chesnutt's The Wife of His Youth in a free box a while back, and had no idea the gem I had found.

Charles Chesnutt was a black writer at the turn of the last century who refused to pass for white though he could've; The Wife of His Youth is from 1899, a short story compilation focused mainly on the vagaries of racial passing, the black middle class, and racism from both within the black community and without. Those kinds of stories are of interest to me, and I was like, sure, I'll give it a shot, even though I'm generally not a big fan of 19th century literature.

I am so glad I stretched my tastes, because I loved it. ( An author I'd never heard of, whose work was adapted into film by a filmmaker I'd never heard of, and how I fell in love with both works. )

Mori: We don't watch a lot of TV or movies, outside of a friend's Cartoon Night (and sometimes Mac goes to their Broadway Night). When completely brain-hungover, Rogan had gotten into the habit of watching a dude play scary games on YouTube. Dude had a really chill, leisurely, completionist gaming persona which made him a great watch, and most video games over a certain age have a story no more complicated than "go right, don't die." But as our Windows machine declined, it stopped playing YouTube, and also... Jeez, guys, some games are COMPLICATED now. And LONG.

So, like the modern humans we are, we preemptively downloaded Gigi's three favorite Let's Plays from that one guy (the two American McGee's Alice games and Fran Bow, if you wondered), and then we started hunting TV to watch.

( TV time! )

Mac: In my hunt for older gay spiritual sexuality books, I found out that one of the books I'm looking for, the Divine Androgyne According to Purusha, is damn near impossible to find and apparently never digitized... but that the writer, Christopher Larkin directed an early gay film, A Very Natural Thing, in 1974, which is available on archive.org! I had to watch it.

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