giornata, 6/19/25

it's a summer album, it needs summer dollars

Giornata is my Thursday weekly media diary, covering whatever I read, watched, or listened to in the last week. This feature is for paid subscribers. This week, it’s so hot and I’m doing a lot of prep for projects that are forthcoming. Will we get a game seven in the NBA finals or are the Thunder going to get it done tonight???¹

lovely day for a 20th century masterwork

I celebrated Bloomsday by going to an Irish pub for trivia, which was advertised as starting at 8pm, but actually started at 7:30pm. So I had to suffer through the Quizzo leader asking the question “Which Roman Emperor was famously killed on the Ides of March?” with no venue to give feedback on what is wrong with that question.²