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June 29, 2025

heart-thawed / for a new round of reckonings

Trying to be very deliberate about my media consumption, given that I have to be very nearly indiscriminate about the news.

To wit, some recent favourites and some I’m looking forward to:

  • KPop Demon Hunters (Trailer)

  • A bunch of upcoming shows at BAM, especially Linton Kwesi Johnson and Hanif Abdurraqib‘s curation of the works of June Jordan

  • Twelfth Night / Free Shakespeare in the Park

  • The Apple TV adaptation of The Murderbot Diaries

  • The Codenames iOS game

  • Various books by Jamel Shabazz

  • This pen and this ink

What’s bringing you joy these days?

Attribution

perhaps what i
am trying to say:
i’ve grown tired
of singing
the blues,
mr. parker.
all these things i be,
bubbling up; heart-thawed
for a new round of reckonings,,
— from a letter to charlie parker by Dior J. Stephens 
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