Weeknote 32, 2023

§1 Rock and metal genres

Becoming a Rate Your Music member is a great way to learn about the multitude of genres that people have imagined for sub-dividing rock and metal music, and this video (unrelated to RYM) can serve as a quick introduction.

§2 Book

David Orr had enough top-notch ideas and insights to write a superlative New Yorker essay, but instead produced the bloated, rambling 172-page book, The Road Not Taken.

§3 X'ed out

White South African buys and destroys major communication channel for Black Americans.

§4 College Football

My interest in college football has steadily declined as I age, and the destruction of the Pac-12 has killed it altogether. The Pac-10 I grew up with was the perfect conference: Five pairs of traditional rivals. What a waste.

§5 Pink Panther

The “Pink Panther” theme the way it was meant to be played: By a double bass quintet.

§6 Coffee

Starbucks Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Brew Coffee tastes like the milk left over after eating a bowl of chocolate-flavored cereal.

§7 Quotation

“The reason why smartphones rule the world is because they do more jobs for more people in more places than anything in the history of mankind.”—Ben Thompson