Actor and humorist Nick Offerman on what he has learned from Wendell Berry. When Offerman asked to adapt Berry’s stories for the screen, Uncle Wendell replied:

I like you, and I like your letter, but I consider the whole of my writing to be an ongoing project, and, as such, I’m not interested in seeing anybody else’s take on it.

Thank God for that.

Reading this by Alan Jacobs brought back to mind a question that occurred to me as I was reading Kingsnorth: why haven’t we seen something like the Timber Wars or Luddite machine breaking over data centers? I’m sure the answer is complicated. I wonder if leftists aren’t as worried about Big Tech?

James Bridle points out that solar panels are getting cheap enough that they’re being used as fencing in places. I still worry about Michael Moore’s argument that renewable energy is just as resource intensive as fossil fuel energy. It will be interesting to see where this goes.

Today’s earworm: Punch Brothers cover of “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. A very good song to have looping in your head. 🎵

A fool and his advice are easily parted.

The general consensus used to be (here in America) that the Christmas season began the day after Thanksgiving. As with so many other consensi, that is dead. Apparently it now begins the day after Halloween. By the time I retire it’ll probably begin mid-summer.

Thyme and cabbage soup on the fire

Biggest carrot we’ve ever grown!

Final trick or treater count!

Rachel says happy Halloween