Witness the happy soul in the recovery room, despite the seismic change that was about to occur in my wardrobe:

Clearly I am obsessed with the baking potential of lye. Yesterday, I made pretzels!

Here’s your periodic reminder that “personal carbon footprint,” including all those calculation exercises now taught in schools, came from a 2005 BP media campaign.

They wanted to deflect responsibility for climate change to the consumer — taking ownership for nothing other than the profits.

Have to admit, though, that Nausicaa tops the others in this one respect, with the critical question: How should we navigate a toxic world?

Or the obvious from Mononoke Hime.

There are some great, and I think intentional, graphic matches in the previous scene with Miyazaki. This one is from Totoro, which has a well documented rural Japan postwar subtext.

There’s a lot to like about the the Last of Us, but I esp like the image of the queer/nonbinary survivor at the end of the world.

It’s a non-natalist resolution. Ellie is surrounded by new growth, even as the punishing hetero-patriarchal world collapses around them. Hopeful.