August 16-17, 2025

We're still under the current situation here in DC but still trying to keep things normal for sanity's sake. Caught up last night with an anime that I'd been hearing about but went in mostly blind called City The Animation. Normally, I find comedy anime to not be funny at all but this show is legitimately funny and charming, especially since it's also technically impressive at times when pulling off the visual gags.

Aside from that, spent part of the morning running around looking for an antibiotic prescription for my partner (root canal) that seemed to bounce between pharmacies, so that was irritating. Also realized some aspects of these blog have radically changed since I started it 3 years ago so might have to "retire" certain aspects that no longer work for me (link round-ups and Miscellanies, specifically). I'll have more on that later. Rest of the weekend's dedicated to taking care of home things before the next sabbatical in a couple weeks so will probably be quiet here and there.

This weekend's album is Ellington at Newport by Duke Ellington (1956) and and the featured image is from Benoît Deschasaux. - A.B. 8/16/25