Your assignment, should you choose to accept it: See High and Low at the Roxie Theater this weekend. Kurosawa's samurai films get all the love, but High and Low is not only better, it has Toshiro Mifune taking the most psychically intense shower anyone has ever taken.

Spoiler alert: Spike Lee DOES NOT seem to be as upset about income inequality though.

The siren call of the "wee" pulls us all into its clutches sooner or later.

Yes please. Arc of the moral universe is long, bends towards people probably not recognizing what you did.

It makes for some good clacking in the background.

First time THAT I KNOW OF.

Trying to figure out how much, if any, of these plans for public green space along the Sacramento River ever came to pass. Designing public space that can flood during the rainy season is a hot topic in climate adaptation circles these days.

Kind of surprised at how large of a role cars play in this report—specifically, driving past scenic viewpoints. Which is, admittedly, still a huge thing in California.