Just A Peck 0040 // Easter, Artemis, Raiders
Welcome to the latest issue of Just A Peck. I’m glad you’re here!
JOURNAL
Last Sunday was Easter and all of the kids except Spencer were able to be home. My mom and sister are on a trip to Korea and Japan, and we had planned on my dad driving up by himself, but a double-whammy snowstorm over the weekend made him change his mind. Jody’s sister and brother were able to join us though. We colored eggs, had an Easter egg and Easter basket hunt which involved a cool puzzle designed by Jody, and our traditional Easter lunch. April is also the birthday month for Kaylee, Corey, and Jody’s sister Diane, so we had a small “Birster” celebration too with Moon Cake (partially inspired by the Artemis II mission).
Speaking of the Artemis II mission, the astronauts made it back safely! What an inspiring feat of science, engineering, and cooperation.
Singing with the Stars, the annual fundraiser for the Playhouse, was this week. It’s always such an incredible event, with contestants from the community who have worked so hard and an audience that is ecstatically supportive–all in support of a great organization. The Playhouse staff crushed it again, as always.
Our ex-pat friends Dan and Christine stopped back in Duluth for a few days and scheduled a get together. It was so great to catch up briefly. I’m hoping to visit them in Amsterdam sometime this year.
Jody got us tickets to see Raiders of the Lost Ark at Symphony Hall with the DSSO playing the score live. It was amazing. Our symphony orchestra is so freaking good, y’all. Get to one of these if you have the chance.
WHAT I WATCHED THIS WEEK
WHAT I READ THIS WEEK
Finished:
In Progress:
- Gödel, Escher, Bach, Hofstadter
- Middlemarch, Eliot
- Hollywood: The Oral History, Bassinger, Wasson
MEMORIES
Twenty Years Ago Lots of Easter photos in my photo memories. Here are a few from twenty years ago at our house in Spooner.
QUICK LINKS
- "Windy Day" — a lovely 3D animated short
- A brief history of lab notebooks
- A one-tap browser game about orbital mechanics
- The Aadam Jacobs Collection — an internet treasure trove for music lovers
- BannerDepot 2000 — make poems from 90s banner ads
- NASA's lunar fly-by photos
- The image boards of Hayao Miyazaki
- OldNYC — mapping historical photos of New York City
- The cutouts in the Artemis Mission typography have a very specific meaning.
- Pantone Muppet colors
- Moon Joy
WHAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT
The Playhouse just announced their new season and it looks great! Get your memberships here.
The Odd Couple opens this week at the Boat Club. One of the funniest plays ever written with a great cast and production team. Don’t miss it!
SpongeBob also opens this week at UMD, directed and choreographed by my friend and neighbor, the incomparable Matthew Wagner. Get those tix!
MY FAVORITE QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“How did anyone even manage back then to keep getting out of bed in the morning, day after day? Heaved up and drifting along on a broad wave of absurdity, although we knew and saw it, which made it all the worse! But in the end this very knowledge was what kept us alive, while others far better than we were swallowed up.”
— Heimito von Doderer
That’s it for this week. Stay safe, friends. Thanks for reading!