Senses working overtime #324

1 Nitch

Joni Mitchell // "Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth...we don’t have shamans or soothsayers, and depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side...and we become attracted to fluff... But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing."

2 Marvel villains ranked by, erm, hotness

3 Five words that will open doors for you

4 Black Widow

I was looking forward to this pre pandemic. Not sure now, after reading this.

5 Coffee - the invisible addiction

Coffee houses have been around awhile

Apparently, "Something like 90% of humans ingest caffeine regularly, making it the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world, and the only one we routinely give to children (commonly in the form of fizzy drinks)."

Overtime: Believing is seeing 

They say that seeing is believing.

But it might be more true that believing leads to seeing.

It’s often easier to discover the truth if we believe it’s there in the first place.

(Seth Godin)

Senses working overtime #239

1 Another amazing Batman image 

2 December movies

Not long now before the new Star Wars movie (almost there, almost there) but it's not all about SW. Here are some others to watch for.

3 Poetry corner

Before Us

will we travel
to the city where
so much happened
before us     where once
you asked me    and I

couldn't    will we go
to a place   where the past
is new    tell me
this winter morning

where that past is hiding

Anne Michaels (2017)

4 The trick that made animation realistic



5 Black Widow

Looking forward to this one as well. Black Widow is one of my favourite Avengers.

Overtime: 21 best films of 2019
In keeping with the movie bias of this edition - here are the best movies of 2019 according to Vox.