I’ll be uploading a lot of Blood Meridian content over the next few months, including more chapter-by-chapter annotations for McCarthy’s novel, original essays, maps, and more. In the meantime, I wanted to give you guys this very-detailed map of the Kid’s travels. ncG1vNJzZmianKS8pbnEq6CdoZGje7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZq2glWK6oryMqJ1mmpykvKV5zJ6popyZlrs%3D

I’m of two minds about Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, a new documentary about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo.  On the one hand, it’s an example of a trend that I’m on record as finding unsavory: It’s a mostly fawning documentary about a great modern-day athlete, in which the athlete himself seems to have had some degree of control.   Plus, the story of Giannis and his family is pretty well-known as it is, and was even already told in a streaming movie, Rise, a fictionalized treatment that arrived on Disney+ less than two years ago (Rise was more in the genre of Inspirational Sports Movie).

First a disclaimer: I did not remove my clothes while working on my latest story, about a documentary film about Sunsport Gardens Family Naturist Resort in Loxahatchee. But the filmmakers did. They took the “When in Rome…” approach and stripped down to their birthday suits while embedding themselves among the resort’s residents for six months in late 2019 and early 2020 to make Naked Gardens. They are convinced they made an honest film.

Whitney Houston drowned in a Beverly Hills bathtub on February 11, 2012. She was 48 years old. If you were of a certain generation — the generation dutifully lined up on an elementary school stage and made to sing “The Greatest Love of All” because we were The Children People Believed Were the Future — the news seemed impossible. Whitney was of a pantheon of 1980s artists — Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince — who felt both eternal and synonymous with America.

Despite the long shadow thrown by the name, King Seiko was not around for all that long. The King Seiko watches were originally made from about 1961 to 1975, and they were, like Grand Seiko, meant to represent the highest end of home-grown Japanese watchmaking – timepieces that could compete head to head with precision chronometers from Switzerland. Both King Seiko and Grand Seiko have their collectors – a lot of the time, the same person, although Grand Seiko’s history and design heritage is obviously much better known.