99 HEARTS: "A comb with teeth missing"

Life is better   //   With cake

Lucy and I are in a strange period of stasis. The baby is due February 17th, and we're sitting around, waiting, wondering if he'll be early or late. Our jobs have us both working long hours. It's frigidly cold in New York and everybody's staying inside as much as possible, hibernating. COVID is still happening, of course, so we're not going anywhere or doing anything apart from taking the dog to the dog park. Yesterday, Coop and I were the only living things at the dog park for a good twenty minutes. With wind chill, it was -1°. He ate the bark off a stick and the wind blew frozen dust into our eyes.
 

Feeling you, Miya-san.

"Popular media and new forms of technology have historically been approached with suspicion. This can be traced all the way back to 400BC, when Plato expressed his concerns about written language (what would happen to our ability to remember things?) and has continued through panic about telephones, crossword puzzles, film, comic books, rock and roll, Dungeons and Dragons and video games.

"Put formally, moral panics are irrational approaches to observable and quantifiable phenomena that can be understood separate from subjective evaluation. They are irrational approaches because at their core, they are about ascribing an easy solution to a complex problem."

The whole thing is a pretty interesting read.
 

If you can stomach the extreme "well actually, I'm a video essayist" vibes, this breakdown of jump scares and one of the most disturbing moments from David Lynch's Mulholland Drive is pretty interesting, particularly the segments about camera work and editing.