What we need right now is a coalition of the reasonable.

Work is done and I have nineteen days off WOOT

Thinking of all the paraskevidekatriaphobiacs out there right now. At least it’s not Monday the 16th.

Films watched in spring: 🍿

Tombstone
United 93
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Hitcher
Free Solo
The Dawn Wall
Mary and Max
Joker
In Bruges
El Camino
You Were Never Really Here
Animal Kingdom
Elizabeth
Jojo Rabbit
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Annihilation

Delicious sushi for brunch. Becoming a bit of a delicious habit.

At Whaka, for my first time across Tūhoto Ariki to link up with Split Enz. A fun loop.

We saw Jojo Rabbit and it was ziemlich gut, ja. 🍿

Rewatched Annihilation for the first time since it came out. So good, and so inexplicably underrated. Also, scary ass bear. 🍿

Finished reading Tribe by Sebastian Junger. A short and interesting look at trauma and our ties to each other. 📚

After falling off my bike the very first time I rode with my new calavera-themed mudguard, I fell off the second time too. I now have two crashes’ worth of bumps and cuts and bruises, and I’m wondering if maybe the mudguard is cursed.

“If you had the power to change civilisation, given what you understand about what works and what doesn’t work, what would the rules of a good civilisation be? Your core tool is the trade-offs between competing values… Once you agree on the values and are serious about those values, you won’t achieve perfection on any of them. But what would an optimal balance look like? And what rules would achieve and stabilise that balance?” Bret Weinstein w/ Douglas Murray

“He is reminding us all of our common humanity, that we have much more in common than politicians and partisans would like us to believe. Seeing people as less like cardboard cutouts and more like, well, people, would do us (and our politics) a world of good.” What Obama gets right about ‘cancel’ culture

Good riding with friends today, and my first time on Hot X Buns.

My 15-year-old went out of his way to thank me for some specific “advice and knowledge” I gave him and it feels good.

Just noticed that for those of us in the world who write numerical dates correctly, today’s is a palindrome: 9.10.19.

Got a kettlebell to help with my workouts and my shoulder. 10/10, would get again.

We saw Joker and while it was always going to be a little dark I was surprised at how unrelentingly bleak and anti-human it all was. Joaquin’s acting was right on point though.

Always nice to get a text from your kid wanting to meet up for an impromptu lunch date.

If I’m ever president of NZ, daylight saving will start at 4pm on Monday and not 2am on Sunday.

“That’s a fact because people are saying it.”

Excitement building for the big Aussie Rules final. #gotiges 🏉

Here’s hoping many of the young people involved in today’s climate strikes have their sights set on science and engineering educations. Also, economics.

It’s simultaneously funny and frustrating to see what’s going on in our culture right now.

Sometimes I curse the day I taught my boys how to throw a left-right combo.

Someone left a JW tract under my doormat which really just raises more questions than it answers.

Watched Free Solo, a doco about the guy who achieved what I think is one of the all-time great human feats, by climbing El Capitan without ropes. WOW.

So I got employee of the month which is cool and which came with a lei and a voucher for the local bike shop. Which is also cool.

Moderate 5.2 earthquake just now, shook for quite a while and got things rattling and swaying. Then an aftershock.