Hi, yes, it’s been ages again (3 newsletters in 9 months is a good effort, right?). What I’ve done over the last few months: gone to New Zealand, listened to Taylor Swift, joined a softball team, worried about identity theft (I’ve only been doing this the last couple of days tbf) and thought about getting older. And in thinking about it, I think I’ve figured out that the worst part about getting older is actually all your favourite athletes retiring.
One of my favourite hockey players, PK Subban, retired last week at 33 after a run of injuries. I only started watching hockey in 2013, and he left the Montreal Canadiens in 2016 (a real I’ll-never-forget-where-I-was moment was waking up in Wagga Wagga on a work trip to read the PK/Taylor Hall/Steven Stamkos news), but in those three years he banked up a bunch of moments that still rank in my list of favourite hockey moments, and I’m sad he’s not playing anymore. He leaves a complicated legacy in Montreal, which I think this Athletic piece weighs up well.
Here’s a song:
Here are some good links:
Poem: photograph from 9/11 - I read this a few weeks ago and I still can’t stop linking about the final stanza
Thirty years on, I’m still grappling with what Looking for Alibrandi means to me - with its 30 year anniversary coming up next month, author Melina Marchetta reflects on Alibrandi and why the story still resonates today. It’s been adapted as a play and I can’t wait to see it
A couple of books I’ve read over the last few months:
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor - very excellent outback noir with a twist I didn’t see coming
The bullet that missed, by Richard Osman (a new Thursday Murder Club!) - I picked up the first in the series during lockdown last year, right when the second came out and I was finally weary enough to succumb to all the marketing. This one was my favourite so far.
Anjelika Frankenstein makes her match by Sally Thorne - reviews are, uhhhhh, mixed on this but this was turn-your-brain off fine/cute
The ride of a lifetime by Bob Iger - Kayla recommended this to me ages ago and I finally read it! Bob Iger’s the former Disney CEO and he gets through a bunch of interesting stories, including what it was like in the company when Disney acquired ABC and then being on the other side when Disney acquired Pixar and Lucasfilm
Now, some good tweets:
That’s it! @ me or email me with any thoughts, good links, etc!