A friend recently recommended I read the critically acclaimed comic series Ex Machina. The only problem would be… it’s about politics.
I’m DROWNING in politics. Daily.
It’s hard to imagine consuming it for fun as well. I think I’ll stick to Action-Science Robots and such for the time being.
We watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on Monday, and I’m still processing it. I’m wondering if someone could apply the Gonzo ideal to practicing law… be a Gonzo lawyer, instead of a Gonzo journalist?
I wonder what that would look like. Elevating the personal, keeping the human context of your work first and forefront, avoiding phony objectivism… is that compatible with the practice of law? After all, the law is a very abstract, rareified, intellectual realm.
Then again, Hunter S. Thomspon covered a lot of stuff in the world of politics and culture, so maybe his books would help with an answer. I should put a couple of them in my Amazon list.
Today’s review is of a Wisconsin-made American Grana, which is a sort of domestic alternative to Parmesean. More, including some housekeeping, below the cut.
