Man I Don't Even Know

The problem with me being a writer is that I'm too stupid to understand 99.99% of things that happen in this world. Sometimes I read science writing in particular where I'm like, "I admire the craft of your sentence structure and the precision of your vocabulary, but I have no idea what you're talking about." Instead of being able to write, I often wish I had an actually useful skill, like fixing cars or installing drywall, but alas.

ETA: The context for this is me spending two hours trying to figure out carbon offsetting, and specifically why it's a scam. I understand the bits about money laundering just fine, but I don't understand how the science is supposed to work. I can't even figure out whether in fact the science was ever supposed to work tbh.

Anyway here's a random photo of some nice apple pie, which is about the level I'm on right now.

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Excuse me sir it's rude to be this gorgeous

So I got invited to present at a conference in Slovenia this coming summer. Which of course made me think about Nosferatu and its Eastern European Instagram Filter™ lighting, which I unironically loved. Then I thought about how Robert Eggers used the same style of lighting to portray New England in The Witch. And then I remembered how much I wanted to pet the evil goat in that movie, Black Phillip. The actual goat, who is named Charlie, was apparently so ungovernable that it gored Ralph Ineson in the ribs (source), if only we could all be so honored. And then I got curious about who played Black Phillip's human form, which is strongly implied to be Satan himself.

It turns out that the person Eggers cast to portray Satan is a Canadian actor named Daniel Malik, and

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Like seriously, this fucking guy

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I've read a lot of commentary on The Witch, and no one ever mentioned this. Which I think is a glaring omission in the critical discourse. Because goddamn.