Links for January 22nd
The Texas synagogue escape, ER (the show), what's going on with the market selloff, cool apartments and rooms, how a book cover gets designed, Fun Facts about the history of radio
Hello, hope you’ve had a relatively smooth week. A little heads down on some work right now, so the links are a little all over the place. Nevertheless, here they are!
Links
Ruth Graham at the Times interviewed the rabbi inside the synagogue on how they escaped their attacker — it’s crazy if you haven’t read it, like something out of a movie.
In links from yore, if you’re watching ER again because it’s on HBO Max, this Alan Sepinwall tribute to Carter and Benton, and why the show still feels fresh and excellent decades later, from when it first hit streaming in 2018, is worth the read.
The Times also interviewed a bunch of people who tried to tackle Derrick Henry in high school.
Thought this Joe Weisenthal argument that inflation/rates are part of what’s causing selloffs, but also just what he calls “diminishing speculative appetite” was worth reading.
In fun to look at:
a. This nice-vibe bedroom, featuring a blanket I’m pretty sure my grandparents had in their upstairs guest bedroom.
b. This architect’s apartment that he’s owned and largely kept the same since 1962 (featuring some odd looking skeletal chairs, and the owner in an incredibly well-tailored suit).
c. Create your own — if you don’t know what I mean here, just ignore this — lo-fi chill beats studying/relaxing girl (or bro).
d. How one book cover design came together.
Light book commentary
Very light, except to say I’ve been doing some reading on the side the last couple months about the early days of the phone and radio (I want to get a better handle on how people responded to that, given how well we’re responding to all this). Anyway, here’s a little fun fact from Erik Barnouw’s A History of Broadcasting In The United States (a total banger):
In 1923, some people broadcast a Warren G. Harding speech and maybe reached a million people; the next year, President Calvin Coolidge reached an estimated 20 to 30 million in October before the election. For sheer speed of the changing times: Each address represented the most people a president had ever spoken to.
A note on all this
Thanks for subscribing. Hope you enjoy. The goal here is just to offer up some links you may have missed, and maybe the occasional commentary on something in politics or a book I may have read that you, the reader, might enjoy. If you have thoughts on any of this, hit me up at katherinemillernyc@gmail.com or just tweet at me.