recommended reading

• I watched part of One Battle After Another but I'm not that interested in re-watching the whole thing. I'm sure it's a great movie; it's just not my cup of tea. But I very much enjoyed this spoiler-filled article about how The Oscar Should Go to Bob Ferguson's 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R. 
• I finally remembered in December to pay for Dreamwidth points. I'm trying to be better about paying for stuff I actually really like and use. 
• To that end, I renewed my subscription to Zeteo. The most recent thing I watched of theirs that was great, was this interview with Iranian-Jewish-Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi, who talks about growing up in a small Israeli village nicknamed "The Oasis of Peace", where Israelis and Palestinians intentionally lived together. She's now got a documentary called "Coexistence My Ass". 
• Equator also continues to bring gorgeous, heartbreaking writing and news, and I'm pretty sure I will subscribe once I sort out other subscriptions and bills for 2025. It is one of the few publications where I actually want to read everything. Some articles that stand out: How Gaza Broke the Art World - from the former editor of ArtForum and how he got fired for speaking up on Gaza, The Demand for Silence - on the unspoken and increasing costs of the Ukrainian war on Ukrainians themselves, Caste and Chappals - a translation of a memoir about being Dalit and what having shoes means, We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves - How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide. 
• Apparently the boycott against PenAmerica has been lifted.