notes & things | 10/27/2026

As Octobers usually are, it's been a couple busy weeks, including a trip to Michigan for a wedding J was working and a mini-retreat for me. We wound up staying a couple days in this charming little vintage-ey cabin style motel, which while it lacked amenities like an ice machine, touched all points on woodland charm. It was like stepping back into the 1950s. Not to mention the colors in Michigan were far richer and more advanced than we've yet seen here. This past weekend was another fun throwback with another trip to the drive-in out in McHenry for a horror triple feature (Nightmare, Friday the 13th, and Texas Chainsaw.) We also managed to make our way through the new Crystal Lake series in about two days while up in Michigan. I've been outlining and drafting something new, a script culled by my habits of late, which include listening to Lana del Rey on repeat and anxiously watching social media videos of beachfront homes falling into the surf. It's a ghost story where the set is…