Status Updates From Consider the Lobster and Ot...

Read:
- consider the lobster
- big red son
- view from mrs Thomson house
- how Tracy Austin broke my heart

For some reason the rest weren’t featured in the audiobook… will have to find elsewhere

2. “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart": Perhaps the best sports essay i’ve ever read and certainly the best book review. Funny enough, the thesis of this essay applies best to hockey despite never being mentioned. I feel Connor McDavid can only be understood in the context of this essay.

1. “Consider the Lobster”: well written but stupid. a attempted moral argument that says (in a roundabout “i’m not saying anything” way) that eating lobsters may be bad b/c they have a nervous system & feel pain. Despite being absurdly long, it shies away from such questions as “what is bad?” & “what is good?” until the final paragraph, when it says such questions are beyond the purview of the essay

a note: going to start pejoratively referring to things as "muzak" a lot more. A perfect dig and extremely applicable in the current Slop era.