A blob named Bob
a dispatch from bewilderness
The beauty of lists is that they allow for big jumps between ideas. They can also connect the seemingly disconnected, bring order to chaos and sometimes make things make sense. On our list today:
Hundreds of trillions of miles away, orbiting a distant star, astronomers have discovered a planet called K2-18b.
The odds of getting a literary agent are about 1 in 6,000. Or less. Depends on who you are.
If you’ve spent any time around books in the last five years, you’ve noted at least a dozen romance tropes: including love affairs with werewolves, vampires, dragons, and faeries.
But there’s a new, exciting, micro-trend: humans in love with inanimate objects. In one book, (called Blob) the female protagonist finds a gelatinous blob in an alley, brings him home and calls him "Bob."
Humans are fallible and unpredictable. Inanimate objects and blobs? Much less so.
The Residence, a detective streamer from Shonda Rimes, has multiple subjects in 3 different rooms on 2 different floors with 4 different weapons for 8 different reasons — or more — at The White House. I didn’t love the first episode, but then I got hooked.
The richest man in the world is starving the poorest kids in the world and removing life-saving drugs so that the kids and their moms and their dads and their brothers and sisters are dying of cholera and malaria because life-saving medicines have been withdrawn. Mr. Trump went even further than Mr. Musk by also withdrawing life-saving food from starving kids in Africa.
I’m old enough to have pleats on my sclera, otherwise known as wrinkles on my eyes. Not around my eyes. On them.
Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time includes 11 kinds of universes plus strings, black holes and dark matter. It’s still called “brief.”
Other “brief history” books include: A Brief History of Nearly Everything, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, and A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters.
This is a blob, but NOT a blob called Bob
There’s a new, exciting, micro-trend: humans in love with inanimate objects. In one book, the female protagonist finds a jelly-like blob in an alley and brings him home where he transforms into "Bob."
You are so very fun to read. Long may you wave.