Ottessa Moshfegh - "Homesick for another world"

Sad and beautiful short stories. Amazing character descriptions.



Oh, my mother. A week later she drove me to the bus stop. It was barely five in the morning and she still wore her burgundy satin negligee and curlers in her hair, a denim jacket thrown over her sunburned shoulders. She drove slowly on the empty roads, coasted through the blinking red lights and though they didn't exist, stayed silent as the moon. Finally she pulled over and lit a cigarette. I watched a tear coast down her cheek. She didn't look at me. I opened the car door. "Call me" is all she said. I said I would. I watched as she pulled a U-turn and drove away.

Jon Ronson - "The Butterfly effect"

Intriguing podcast about the growth of free porn. Stamp collection destruction, custom videos, young people registered as offenders because they don't understand context.

Annihilation

Film roughly based on the first book of Jeff Vandermeer's "Southern Reach" trilogy. If you've read the books, it's a weird collection of random parts. Not that great.