I've been watching Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin (both shorts and longer features) on youtube. It's so strange to watch eg. a Charlie Chaplin short from 1914, or Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle in 1918, and imagine the world and context they're operating in. It makes me want to study film.

I'm reading the new DC Comics "Lois Lane" series. She's a tenacious investigative reporter. It's some real "ripped from the headlines" stuff.

When I can, I like to lay on the couch on a Sunday and half-snooze while a baseball game happens on the TV. Sometimes my kids let me do this.

Looking forward to: the new John Le Carre novel later in the fall. Also, the household copy of "The Testaments" has been lent to a neighbour and I plan to read it when it returns.