Better Than Friday - 90 (Patreon)

Good afternoon everyone, hope you're well, I just uploaded the patron-early access version review of Faulkner's incredible 'As I Lay Dying' - Stunning book. Really an amazing piece of work. Highly, highly recommended. 

Also, I think I had a small stroke from that Chicory Coffee blend. I've been informed by my source, friend and patron Robert, that it's recommended with hot milk should you try a shot. 

Just stepped outside, smelled the petrichor from the rain on asphalt, and spotted a blue heron in the local pond. 

Lot of birds out here - I love it. 

(crappy pic because of zoom)

Hope ya'll a great weekend.

1. A book I'd like to reread and review - Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 

I remember enjoying this, though it was tragic.

First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.

- Amazon

2. Lex Fridman interviews Robert Breedlove 

Some of these ideas are so enormous it's difficult to believe they're taking place, but these days, I'm thinking some big (enormous) changes may be on the way. 

3. Harold Bloom's Western Canon 

What an incredible list...I'd like to say I'll work through all of these but it seems like several lifetimes worth of reading material. Goals. 

4. The Stoa 

Some great philosophical conversations on here with a very diverse pool of guests and ideas. 

5. Houllebecq is against France's potential legalization of Euthanasia 

Compelling and surprising from him...

A nearby park on a ridge where I walk these days. That's Oregon across the river there.