I borrowed a copy of Rachel Maddow's 2019 book, Blowout, over the winter holidays and got through it in a fortnight. Here are a few of my thoughts on this exposé of a few major actors in the oil and gas industry:
We hop into the car late on Friday evening. A dog, five humans, lots of bags. Another human and two dogs will be joining us the next day up north. We drive through a night punctuated by blurred yellow lights as we get further north, the radio set to the rock station I listened to in high school.
I sometimes tweet when interesting things happen. Today, I was given the
opportunity to hear American President Barack Obama speak for the first time in
Montréal. It was my first time hearing him
On a school trip when I am ten years old, I find myself on the littoral—where
earth and water meet—of the river in Tadoussac, listening to a teacher asking
the gathered
In my first post about Stardew Valley, I wrote about the romanticization of agriculture and rural life, dumpster diving, as well as what kind of gameplay the game encourages in its players. In this post I'll expand on some of that, as well as explore the game's treatment of labour and the land.
When you look out, over the trees covered in frost, you can almost forget that
it's the end of March, that the viable ski season is almost over. I can almost
forget that
