In the New Yorker...

[Front-Ranger]

I've already read the profile of Jennifer Lawrence and the article about monsters. I think the only movie I've seen of hers was "Don't Look Up" which wasn't mentioned. Of course, I've seen "Silver Linings Playbook" but I don't remember much about that.

[serious crayons]

I've already read the profile of Jennifer Lawrence and the article about monsters. I think the only movie I've seen of hers was "Don't Look Up" which wasn't mentioned. Of course, I've seen "Silver Linings Playbook" but I don't remember much about that.

You haven't seen Winter's Bone? First thing I saw her in. I highly recommend it!

Also American Hustle! One of my all-time favorite movies. (I've seen it three times, the number of times I've watched most of my favorite movies, excluding the one I watched 22 times.)

[Jeff Wrangler]

I haven't thought of "American Hustle" in a very long time. I've never seen it but I remembering wanting to.

I've been away from home for about a week and a half now, so I guess I'm two issues behind again. 

[serious crayons]

I haven't thought of "American Hustle" in a very long time. I've never seen it but I remembering wanting to.

I highly recommend it! 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's streaming in a bunch of places. i've heard the director, David O. Russell, is an asshole, but then I like Chinatown, too. Rewatched that a couple of years ago.

I've been away from home for about a week and a half now, so I guess I'm two issues behind again. 

I still haven't gotten the latest. I used to get it on Tuesdays, then Wednesdays. Now it must be Fridays or Saturdays because it wasn't there today (I don't check my mail every day).

[Jeff Wrangler]

I'm slogging my way through the Nov. 3 article on data centers. I wouldn't ordinarily read it, and I might give up and not finish it, but I've started reading it because a data center is currently being built in the county where I grew up, and others are in the planning stage, and there are concerns about how much water data centers use and also how much electricity.

[Front-Ranger]

The magazine has been doing a lot of profiles lately and some of them are kind of strange (Laura Loomer? Kash Patel?) but the one on Stephen Fry was just a delight. It was too long but I couldn't think of even a paragraph that should be deleted.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I enjoyed the Stephen Fry profile, too. I saw the movie where he played Oscar Wilde to Jude Law's Lord Alfred Douglass. I didn't think it was too long.

The Laura Loomer profile I think was too long, but I read it all anyway because I wanted to know as much about her as possible. She's a dangerous person, kind of a witch behind the throne, or at least an eminence grise.*

I'm reading the Kash Patel profile right now. He is a person who is unqualified to run the F.B.I., so I want to know as much as possible about him, too.

*a person who exercises power or influence in a certain sphere without holding an official position: