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