recently

• I started watching Rick and Morty with my husband. I just started from the last two or three episodes, and it's funny, but I kind of don't get it at the same time?
• Started watching Star Trek: Discovery, really liking it so far. I have really vague ideas of the references to other shows, as I am not a Trekkie and still refer to one of the old Trek movies as "that one with the whale" but I'm enjoying it so far. I wish Michelle Yeoh was in more episodes though.
• So Hulu has starting carrying all these old shows like Golden Girls and Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and Dinosaurs. I watched the first episodes of Dinosaurs and Hangin' With Mr. Cooper, and just had this moment like, "Oh my god they used to make shows about people with normal jobs." Like teachers! "Tree pushers!" It was a little disorienting.
• I finished What Happened by Hillary Clinton and sort of feel like somebody should turn it into a Greek tragedy. Like, all of it was painful, but some parts more so than others. Also, unguarded Hillary Clinton is pretty funny and sarcastic. I'm still sorting out what I think of it - but overall it was pretty good, and thoroughly unsurprising.
• So after reading the NYT takedown of Harvey Weinstein, and his non-apology apology and the removal of this app called Dirty Chinese Restaurant, I have concluded that it is now fashionable to declare yourself a fan of Jay-Z if you can't even credibly claim to have black friends. This does not negate the fact that Jay-Z was a misogynistic douche for the better part of two decades, at least, and making it up to Beyonce with his song does not make it up to everyone else who was a victim of his assholishness. So if they want to claim some woke influence, they need to look harder. But that would require work.