🎬 “Have you seen this chicken?”

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As if 2020 wasn’t enough already: On Wednesday, the sky turned orange. On Thursday, it was a hazy, sickly yellow.

Other than bad air quality, I’m not in any immediate danger here in San Francisco; the fires roaring up and down California and across the western US are a surreal “out there” sort of threat, a reminder that climate change is disrupting all of our lives, albeit unequally. I’ve been in a depressive funk most of today (I write this newsletter on Thursday), but I can only imagine what it must be like for someone living in the fires’ path.

Once again, I feel privileged to have the luxury of escaping for hours at a time to the movies in this newsletter, of thinking about something else. But please join me in taking the time to do what we can: Register to vote, request an absentee ballot ASAP, and vote early for Joe Biden. A vote for anyone else is a vote for more orange skies.

- Eric

🎤 The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others is an excellent, tense, politically resonant drama about privacy…