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2025 Reads: We Did Ok, Kid by Anthony Hopkins 📚
I’ve enjoyed Hopkins since seeing him in The Remains of the Day. His memoir here is brisk and easy to read, but you get the sense that he has slowly done the work to come to peace with and acceptance of himself. May we all be willing to do that work.
Apparently there are vendors now that will make custom tropical shirt fabric prints; my department found one and now we have shirts with our test aircraft on them, including the correct N-number. Yeah, we’re nerds.
My One Album a Day for yesterday—which I’m just catching up to this morning—is Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton from 1966. My first familiarity with Clapton was his Unplugged. I was in high school. This is… not that. Lordy, this guy’s electric guitar smokes. (Some hot blues organ in there, too!)
This essay “Evangelicalism: A Love Story” is lovely writing. But the author works hard to redefine the word “evangelical” so that he can have the provocative framing. Growing up Methodist and having a dalliance with Catholicism before becoming Anglican isn’t what most of us know as “evangelical”.
Today’s One Album A Day for me is Emperor Tomato Ketchup from Stereolab.
There’s no way I would’ve been ready for this in 1996 when it came out; almost 30 years later I’m really digging it.
Last year we didn’t get snow until after Christmas. This year: on Thanksgiving weekend. I’m guessing about 10 inches. Cleared 6 driveways and sidewalks this morning! #Iowa #winter #snow #iawx
Well, the Nebraska football team may have gotten trounced by Iowa, but the Husker volleyball team looks unbeatable. Swept Penn State and made it look easy!