a few of my favorite things
I always enjoy it when a particular confluence of events results in a few of my favorite things all appearing within the same vicinity of one another. That happened this evening while reading Michael Chabon's most recent column in Details magazine (the sole reason for my paid subscription).
In the first paragraph of his column about why we should stop mocking the seventies, Michael Chabon (one of my favorite authors), mentions a particular episode of WNYC's Radio Lab "devoted to contemplating the romance and the grim realities of space travel." Radio Lab, thanks to the introduction by Mr. Anderson, has become one of my favorite NPR programs. Then, a page later, Chabon references a recent issue of The Believer, one of my favorite eclectic literary 'zines.
This all resulted in a smile on my face, which continued when one of Chabon's insights reminded me not to take myself so seriously:
Each of us serves, if we are conducting our lives in the usual fashion, as a constant source of embarrassment to his or her future self, and by the same formula all "eras" can be made to look ridiculous in retrospect.
So... I'll approach tomorrow with the attitude that I'm simply providing my future 50-year-old self with some good material for humor or, at the very least, embarrassment.