Five for the Weekend
A brief weekly round-up of some things that are good.
Samuel West on Rosebud: Samuel West has been one of my favorite actors since 1992, when he played Leonard Bast in Howards End. He has one of the best voices known to modern humankind and also seems like a good person, and those qualities are on full display in this podcast interview.
Train Dreams, the Denis Johnson novella: a railroad worker living in the American West in the early part of the 20th century endures isolation, tragedy, and more isolation, and somehow it's all very beautiful.
Train Dreams, the Netflix adaptation: I always worry when books, especially good ones, get screen adaptations, but this one does its source material justice while also deviating from it in thoughtful ways. Also, no other living actor broods quite as soulfully as Joel Edgerton.
101 Cookbooks' Spice-Kissed Pumpkin Pie: I've been making this for Thanksgiving for probably over a decade now, and it remains perfect and more or less impossible to mess up.
A big-ass tub of raw shea butter: this is the only thing keeping my skin from feeling like one of those exoskeletons that cicadas leave behind when they molt into adults.
