SAUL BELLOW OVERDRIVE

He was also recollecting how Dino De Laurentiis strong-armed him into a title he didn't want, and while I'm sure Red Dragon would have been preferable, I actually think Manhunter is great. Because it makes me think of Robert Ardrey and all those other guys who were anthropologically in vogue back in the sixties. These days, probably bunk at worst, gauche at best. But how western scientists/popular writers in the postwar period were constructing a narrative of human origins is its own anthropological artifact, and a richly productive one.

I once pleaded with Menswear Guy on Twitter to do a Mann post. He is literally always dressed so fly. Perfectly tailored suits, sport jackets, trousers. The white Zegna sneakers. Sporty, quiet luxury. “Very Italian shape.”

My dad is impossible to shop for on holidays, birthdays, etc because he "already has everything he wants" (infuriating because in his case it's true) and unless some new tome of Beatles lore that is up to his standards has been recently released, or a NASA documentary, it's unlikely I will be able to find him a library addition he actually cares about. Well, this year I found him a primo Father's Day gift that is actually a gift for me and my mother in disguise: a satellite emergency beacon. Lately he has been lugging the telescope out to various Bortle 2 sides in the Middle of Fucking Nowhere, USA which gives us terrible agita because he is a 72-year-old with various chronic health problems traveling solo. Now we will be able to sleep at night whenever he goes stargazing!