Books as Toys, Coconut Records, Nuclear Rockets to Mars, etc.
In which a few of you still owe me $20 for jerseys.
🗳️ Still time to register, still time to get a ballot. To quote my favorite television station in the ‘90s, rock the vote.
🏈 Since it’s homecoming this week, an excellent pieceon Michigan State desegregating the college gridiron. “MSU’s 1965-’66 football teams were the first fully to be integrated and thereby instrumental in forging a new era.”
😂 Sunday Evening Not Live: I think the season has gotten off to a good start. Last week’s episode with Nate Bargatze had a lot of bangers, including, but not limited to the waterslide, Coach Alan and a sequel to last year’s Washington bit.
📚 Books as toys. “Montessori said play is the work of the child. Play is also the work of the artist. Can we get closer to play if we re-label our tools as toys?”
📋 I could read about a thousand articles like this, just a list of shit actor/musician/writer Jason Schwartzman is currently into (I guess that’s kinda what this newsletter is, but I’m loving all the product recommendations). And if you only know him as an actor, I miss his one-man band, Coconut Records.
🛹 (If you watched that first Coconut Records video above, that’s Mark Gonzales, whom I’ve been repping most of my life)
🎧 This is awesome. Tuneshine is an LED album art display in a wood case that lights up your room with the album artwork from the song you’re currently listening to. Connects to Spotify, Apple Music, Sonos, etc.
🗻 Your moment of zen: nearly a decade old, but this drone footage of Antarctica still looks great.
🚀 Nuclear rockets could get to Mars in half the time, but designing the reactors ain’t easy. “Nuclear thermal propulsion could also one day power maneuverable space platforms that would protect American satellites in and beyond Earth's orbit. But the technology is still in development.”
🌎 Unique perspectives of Earth from SpaceX. “A Falcon 9 upper stage got some gorgeous, faraway looks at our planet.”
🎭 Letters Live recently posted James Earl Jones reading a letter written by Kurt Vonnegut, encouraging students to create art. “Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly.”
“Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.”
✌️ ‘Til next time, keep the Hoping Machine running, ya’ll.
Love,
Luke
