You Can Take My Em Dashes From My Cold, Dead Hands

The Bay Area has such a rich sticker culture! But now I'm realizing... I don't actually know what these stickers are on. (It's near Good Vibes in the Mission if you want to check it out yourself.) Some kind of postbox? A fire alarm? So following on from last week, I watched Greta Gerwig’s 2019 Little Women adaptation! ... sad to say, I was a bit disappointed. Even though the actors were fantastic, the pace just didn’t work; the film rushed to hit the high points of the book, which ironically removed their emotional impact! (Spoilers follow for those who care. Normally I wouldn’t, but I would say Little Women does make some particularly interesting turns — so it might be worth reading it before continuing this section.) What was particularly interesting, other than the fantastic metafictional ending[^ending], was how the film rearranges events. Partly that allows Gerwig to juxtapose scenes from different timelines thematically (e.g. Jo’s Christmas play, which is in the first chapter of…