This Week’s Reading
Jon Stewart and the dichotomy of accidentally becoming a serious news anchor while being a comedian.
There Is No Time in Waterloo: A McSweeney’s short story from their “Life in 2024” issue. Not science fiction, just “futurism-ish”. (I read this online and went to look up which issue it’s in; I recognized the cover from my own copy sitting on my nightstand.)
Mother Earth Mother Board: Neal Stephenson follows the world’s first circumnavigational fiber-optic cable on its journey around the globe, via sea floor and land passage. Written before his staggeringly long books (Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, and Anathem), it’s too long to call it a “short-form” piece, but it is incredibly well-written and well-edited, so settle down with this on a Kindle and have fun.
