May 2025

trying to read more books recently! i really like one of the bookstores in town: big island bookbuyers. plus we also got a few books in other places, which i don't want to take back home so i'm trying to finish them before we go. plus, i know i'll stop wanting to read about hawaiian history when i leave hawaii, lol. history is just not my favorite subject: so many names and dates and places, etc. ugh. also, it (obviously) makes more sense to read about hawaii when i'm here since we can possibly visit the places i'm learning about!

also, way more movies this month. the semester finished so i spent a few nights organizing photos, etc. which means movies playing in the background. 

Sarah Vowell - unfamiliar fishes, mark kirlansky - cod

austenland [2013], the last tourist [2021], the drop [2023], winner [2024], Brooklyn [2015], carol [2015], firebrand [2023], tropic thunder [2008]

april 2025

so many books this month!! (and no movies, tho i have started streaming felicity on hulu) I finally finished the book i'd been reading on and mostly off over a couple years. and i picked up the tripod trilogy from john christopher!!! these were my favorite books from back in elementary school (5th grade maybe?) and i've not read them since. i'm not sure i actually ever read the 3rd book? as i was reading, the first two were familiar, but not the third. in any case, not counting for a few days off, i finished all three books in 5 days :) i managed so much ready cause j's family was here, then my parents, so we haven't been watching tv at nights.

amir d aczel - the jesuit and the skull: teilhard de chardin, evolution, and the search for the peking man
john christopher - the white mountains. john christopher - the city of gold and lead, john christopher - the pool of fire

the atlantic - be a patriot
the atlantic - The Great Grocery Squeeze
the hustle - Corporate swag will never die
eater - No One Asked for Coca-Cola Oreos
atlas obscura - Why Do Canadians Say ‘Eh’?
new republic - Why Recycling Is Mostly Garbage
the atlantic - The World Can’t Keep Up With Its Garbage
mental floss - Why Did Ronald McDonald Disappear?
the atlantic - A Trade War With China Is a Very Bad Idea
mel megazine - Inside the World of Guide Dog Dropouts
the atlantic - The End of the ‘Generic’ Grocery-Store Brand
bbc - Sit-to-stand: The simple test that reveals how you're ageing
vox - The world’s biggest animal cruelty problem, explained in one chart
npr - Doggles and dog booties: Anchorage residents prep pets for volcanic explosion
huff post - This Viral Detergent Hack Has People Questioning If They're Doing Laundry Wrong

atmos - By the Numbers: How Much Trash You’re Really Throwing Away Each Year
i definitely believe that some of these stats are misleading as hell. "61% of food waste is generated by households, while 26% comes from food service establishments and 13% comes from retail." i mean, okay, those may be correct but the GROWING and TRANSPORT and STORING BEFORE TRANSPORT also creates a fuck ton of waste. and that they don't even mention that part really puts the guilt onto the consumers since we may be able to affect some change at food service establishments or retail. altho, i will say that either way, pretty much EVERYONE needs to do more work to make less waste. but corporations and industry especially.

the atlantic - The Last Place on Earth Any Tourist Should Go 
this one makes me sad because i would totally want to go to antarctica. tho, to be honest, i wouldn't really wan to go purely as a tourist, i would want to winter over. because it sounds like an incredible experience. and, also, maybe i'm crazy lol.

march 2025

flight from lax to kona, so movie time! also j and i are sharing a single car again and he's working 10 hour day shifts so I've been staying in more and researching soooo many trips (i have movies playing in the background)

conclave [2024], gladiator II [2024], spencer [2021], mickey 17, interstellar [2014], i used to be funny [2024], an affair to remember [1957], on the basis of sex [2018], unbearable weight of massive talent [2022], barbie [2023]

the dial - Can a Comma Solve a Crime?
nautilus - Your Data’s Strange Undersea Voyage
the cut - Why Do These Women Inspire Such Rage?
vox - The right’s new embrace of an old idea about race
popular science - How prescription drugs get their names
popular science - How do cars get their names? Art, science, and a legal process.
sf gate - 'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos
nyt - Brown University Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge’s Order
parents - Today's Kids Are Ordering Uber Eats to School—And Most Teachers Hate It
hetchinger report - inside the Christian Legal Campaign to Return Prayer to Public Schools
stylist - Why are some people so bad at replying to messages? The reality of navigating life as an awful replier
smithsonian magazine - The Human Brain May Contain as Much as a Spoon’s Worth of Microplastics, New Research Suggests

February 2025

not much reading of articles this month since i focused on books. we also moved from stockton back home, and were there for 10 days. tried to get thru a few atlantic articles on my laptop since i've only signed into my account on that device.

the best American food writing 2022

the age of adaline [2015], Shiva baby [2020], joy: the birth of ivf [2024], kind of pregnant 

the atlantic - the other fear of the founders
the atlantic - the coming democratic baby bust
the atlantic - how the woke right replaced the woke left
the atlantic - how covid pushed a generation of young people to the right
the atlantic - what will happen if the trump administration defies a court order
the guardian - why parents are getting angrier: children are bored out of their skulls with real life

january 2025

remembered the whole listening to articles thing so got thru a few more than I thought i would. j's bother n visited for a bit, g did as well. plus i've picked up a new craft: photo embroidery, and all my sewing machine parts came in too!

nosferatu, furiosa

taste - Numb, Not Burn
eater - How to Feed the Olympics
nyt - She Is in Love With ChatGPT
ny post - Everything we love to eat is a scam
the walrus - Online Shopping Can’t Be Trusted
the hustle - Why America has so many big houses
bbc - Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker
fast company - How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts
vanity fair - The Wizard of Oz: Five Appalling On-Set Stories
ifl science - Why Is There So Much Air In Potato Chip Packets?
mental floss - When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
treehugger - New Zealand's Best Recyclers Now Get a Gold Star
climate change communication - Global Warming’s Six Americas
the hustle - How Nuns Got Squeezed Out of the Communion Wafer Business
vox - I care a lot about climate change. Does that mean I can never ever fly?
grunion - On the Water: Here’s the deal with the concrete piles in Alamitos Bay
the conversation - Here’s the Real Reason to Turn on Airplane Mode When You Fly
the guardian - Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
popular mechanics - Why Our Bodies Have Gotten Colder with Each Passing Decade
bbc - 'It's a unique language spoken by two people': The twins who created their own language
irish news - A woman who can pop her eyes out of her head has answered the internet’s questions
ap news - He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it
the guardian - ‘A kitten on heat with a racy physique’: the mystery of the bloodcurdling cat screech used in hundreds of movies

ifl science - Your Perception Of Time And Space Is Radically Altered By The Language You Speak
"The English language has its own confusing elements like this. If you heard the phrase "Wednesday's meeting was moved forward two days," does that mean the new meeting is on Friday or Monday? Polls suggest roughly half of people will say Friday and the other half Monday, depending on whether they imagine themselves in motion relative to time or time itself as moving."

the atlantic - Michelle Doesn’t Want to Go to Barack’s Work Thing

huffpost - This Aggressive Baby Name Trend Is 'Alarming' Experts

the atlantic - What Happens When a Plastic City Burns 

the hustle - How corn syrup took over America

vox - How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief