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This week’s What’s Alan Watching? newsletter coming up just as soon as I explain the difference between Earth-616, Earth-1610, and Earth-26496 to you… Perhaps the headline of this week’s newsletter is a bit too harsh, sinceI found Apple’s Dark Matter more dull than outright terrible. But I couldn’t resist the wordplay here. Besides, devoting 9 hours to watching a story that could have been more than accommodated within a 2-hour film — and that largely wastes the great Jennifer Connelly while leaning way too much on Joel Edgerton — at least gave me an excuse to vent about multiversal overload.

I recently heard an interesting anecdote about Japanese culture that I identify with the word of today, johatsu. It’s in a podcast that describes the memories and habits of famous people in Turkey about food and drink culture with a nice conversation. In that episode, an architect describes an encounter he experienced in Japan. The architect is in Japan for a construction project, and once the meetings are finished, he is seeking for a local Japanese restaurant to eat at.

Watch full video on Twitter.View most updated version of this post on Substack.Share On December 2, 1959, John Coltrane was at Atlantic Studios in New York City, recording his classic composition “Naima” (pronounced Nye-ee-ma). Coltrane with his wife Juanita Naima Grubbs Considered by many to be Coltrane’s greatest love song, it was named for Coltrane’s first wife Juanita Naima Grubbs. The two of them were married from 1955 until their breakup in 1963.

By the way, since we’re talking about books on the Söring case, don’t forget to consider ordering mine: It’s pretty good! Now let’s turn to another book, this one by Daniela Hillers, who runs a small publishing house in Hamburg called Gallip Verlag, which specializes in ghostwriting. In the middle of 2023, Hillers announced to the world that she would be collaborating on a podcast and a book about the Söring case with Dr.

Late last year, John McWhorter and I released two episodes focusing on the documentary The Fall of Minneapolis and the filmmakers behind it, Liz Collin and JC Chaix. The documentary argues, among other things, that Derek Chauvin followed standard procedure while arresting George Floyd, that he was convicted of murder partially on the strength of false testimony, and that he is not culpable for Floyd’s death. John and I found the film convincing, and we said as much.

In my last episode with John McWhorter, we discussed the new documentary The Fall of Minneapolis, which presents a damning account of the media narrative surrounding the death of George Floyd. Understandably, that conversation caused some controversy. It is our most popular episode yet, with well over a million views on YouTube. Clearly, there’s more to be said about the documentary, so we invited the filmmakers Liz Collin and JC Chaix on the show.

The goal of every general manager, or President of Baseball Operations in today’s Major League Baseball terms, should be to not only build a competitive team--but one that makes a legitimate run at a title. Build winners, collect banners, and strive for pennants. Merely getting in shouldn’t really exist in their head, no matter the payroll. John Mozeliak has always been given a moderate amount of money to spend on constructing a sustainable and highly competitive roster here in St.

Appointment in Samarra remains, to this day, my favorite ever experience of reading a novel. I read it for pleasure over a long and wild intersession weekend in sophomore year of college.  The title derives from W. Somerset Maugham’s translation of an ancient Mesopotamian story, which goes like this, in full, and which may well be familiar to you:  There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said, Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me.

“We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi, and by homeschooling we’re going to get that done.” John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight audience gasped in horror. In a recent us-vs-them installment, homeschool families played the role of “them.” And, wouldn’t you know it, some producer found a podcast clip from one of America’s worst homeschool moms, one who is apparently a bona fide Nazi.