Week 51-25 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa

We are rolling into the last couple weeks of 2025, wrapping up business, and gearing up for the holiday cozy. Keeping it simple this year with an annual viewing of Christmas Vacation, and adding in a Christmas horror movie, dip-palooza, and mulled "wine" (juice really). Then we'll start the dead week puzzle. It has been gorgeous weather-wise but unseasonably warm. Like way too warm. I've been busy starting volume 2 of my ongoing graphic novel project, reviewing films, and planning projects for next year. Also trying to get my office cleaned up, it's a hot mess. Stay tuned next week for a Consuming 2025 wrap-up!

Curiosities of the Week

1. Non-Alcoholic Gløgg Recipe (Cheap Recipe Blog)
2. Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife (New Republic)
   This sounds like an interesting read "Those who are creating the modern composition authentically are naturally only of importance when they are dead,” Stein once wrote. Accordingly, she spent a good portion of her life making arrangements for her afterlife."
3. The Death Of The Scientist - Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science? (Noema Mag)
4. These look so wrong and off-putting, but I have to make them cause they sound delicious... Mortadella Cookies (NYT)
5. 10 Villanelles by Modern and Contemporary Poets (JSTOR) A villanelle is a poetic form composed of five stanzas of three lines each (called tercets), followed by a four-line stanza (called a quatrain), for a total of nineteen lines. The first and third line of the opening tercet repeat at the end of each subsequent tercet and then again as the last two lines of the poem. 

Consuming

Currently Reading: Current reads are The Carpet Makers and Tree of Smoke. I finished Alchemised (Meh) and Stone Yard Devotional (Excellent).

TV/Movies: We've been watching Christmas episodes of South Park - Mr. Hankey song and our personal variations are in constant rotation.

Music: Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo Song

Thinking about: 2026 creative projects and the return of WOWArtSci residents!

Thanks for reading, see you next time!