Status Update: #TheHourlyWreck

So.

Most things I can't control right now, but one thing I can do is offer recommendations of things to read/watch/listen to.

Last week, I tweeted recommendations every hour M-F, 9:00-9:00, using the hashtag #TheHourlyWreck. That's 65 different books, podcasts, movies, and tv shows!

I'll be jumping in with a second full week of hourly recommendations starting next Monday, March 30.

In the meantime, remember:

• Stay home
• Support small businesses (order online from independent bookstores and buy merch from restaurants)
• Be mindful of the bandwidth you're using to stream things (maybe don't do everything in HD, huh? let's not break the internet)
• Complete the census online

And here are all of the things I've covered so far in the #TheHourlyWreck (see the twitter hashtag for links):

1. Travel Man
2. Dr. Gameshow
3. One Good Turn
4. Party Girl
5. The Allusionist
6. Widdershins
7. Harold and Maude
8. Mystery Show
9. Gentlemen & Players
10. Russian Doll
11. The Art of Process
12. The Guardian's "Blind Date" series
13. Superstore
14. Song Exploder
15. To Say Nothing of the Dog
16. Three Identical Strangers
17. Ologies
18. Check, Please
19. The Good Place
20. David Tennant Does a Podcast With ...
21. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
22. Green Wing
23. 99% Invisible
24. Good and Mad
25. Some Kind of Wonderful
26. Front Row
27. Be Prepared
28. W1A
29. The Library Book
30. Hairspray
31. Everything Is Alive
32. The Best of It
33. Britain's Best Home Cook
34. Giant Days
35. The Spy Who Dumped Me
36. Pop Culture Happy Hour
37. Trick Mirror
38. One Mississippi
39. I Know I Am, But What Are You?
40. Nothing Like a Dame
41. Nobody Panic
42. Castle Waiting
43. Taskmaster
44. Eloquent Rage
45. Wine Country
46. Welcome to Night Vale
47. Crosstalk
48. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
49. Brat Farrar
50. Pride & Prejudice
51. The Bright Sessions
52. Paris to the Moon
53. Us & Them
54. You're on an Airplane
55. His Girl Friday
56. Standard Issue
57. 2D Goggles
58. Schitt's Creek
59. Cold Comfort Farm
60. North & South
61. Victoriocity
62. Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles
63. This Way Up
64. Day for Night
65. Colossal

What to Expect in December

As is usual for me, I'll be spending December highlighting some of the best things I read, saw, watched, and listened to over the past year.

Every few days, I'll pause to recommend organizations or books or other things you might consider throwing your money at during the upcoming holiday season.

See You in July!

I'm taking a break from The Daily Wreck for the month of June.

This blog does have more than 1,400 posts (!!), though, so why not click around the index/tags/archive and explore a bit?

Next Week: Spotlight on Hyperbole and a Half

Although I have mentioned the work of Allie Brosh many times, I have never dedicated a full post to her 2013 book, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened.

This is alarming, as I love this comic/memoir very much. As in, "I would save this book in a fire." As in, "if we were friends in December 2013, you received a copy of this book as a gift."

Next week, the remedy --- with nearly 400 pages of content to work with, I'll be highlighting a different snippet each day. 

Get ready for dogs, absurdist hilarity, and almost tangible devastation!

Happy New Year

Welcome to 2019, or, as I'm optimistically dubbing it, "The Year When Everything Gets Fixed" (hahahahahahasob)

I'm going to be trying a "one week on, one week off" thing, so I'll see you back here in a bit.

What to Expect in December

Every day in December, you will see two things from The Daily Wreck:

1. A "Best of 2018" nugget

2. A suggestion for an organization that will do good things if you give them money

Enjoy!

Pause

I'll be away from The Daily Wreck for a few weeks. I expect to be back next month with, among other things, some "Best of 2018" lists. See you then!

Also, for those in the U.S. --- VOTE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Interlude

I'll be back in next Monday with a week devoted to The Goodness of The Good Place.

 

(Re)Statement of Purpose: Salvage

This year sucked my brain out of my head and made it a small, wormy thing that flinches at the beginning of each day.

Next year, it's time to reset. I want to root myself again in the things that I choose, instead of dangling in a perpetual state of horrified reaction.

Last month, Katie Presley posited that the thesis of the (truly excellent) Lady Bird is "attention is love." In 2018, I am determined to spend my attention wisely.

So, I'm trying for a reset on The Daily Wreck. Here's the new plan:

• One recommendation every day
• It could still be a book or a movie or a TV show or a website, but it could also be an article or a Twitter feed or a restaurant or a person or an object or ...
• Not everything will be happy, but I will be avoiding anything that leaves me with a lingering sense of dread or hopelessness or horror
• The posts will also show up via Twitter and Tumblr (and probably also TinyLetter)

Let's save and share the good stuff while we can.

HELLO. I am back. Again.

Another move and, with it, another unexpected hiatus. It wasn't Comcast's fault this time.

But! Back again! (Although now coming from a new and very different location.)

New content tomorrow!






[Image taken from the "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock" section of the Alfred Hitchcock Wiki. It is fantastic; do check it out.]

HELLO. I am back.

The unexpected hiatus was due to moving and being without internet for a very long time because Comcast is terrible.

But! We are back! New content tomorrow!!







[Image taken from the "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock" section of the Alfred Hitchcock Wiki. It is fantastic; do check it out.]

A Bit of a Hiatus

See you in about a week!

I leave you with:

The Daily Wreck Collection

Easy to browse

The Daily Wreck of the Web

I made a Tumblr

[You can check out more gorgeous Hitchcock screenshots like the one above at "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock"]

Notice of a Moderately Brief Service Interruption

The Daily Wreck is on hiatus for the next week and a half or so!

In the meantime, don't forget to enjoy the made-for-serendipitous-discoveries index and the oh-so-browsable sister site The Daily Wreck Collection.

See you in a bit!

[You can check out more gorgeous Hitchcock screenshots like the one above at "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock"]

Notice of a Brief Service Interruption

The Daily Wreck is off this week.

If you're going through withdrawal, you can amuse yourself by looking up stuff in the index or by browsing the brand new sister site, The Daily Wreck Collection.

Back next week!

[You can check out more gorgeous Hitchcock screenshots like the one above at "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock"]

A New Way to Browse Content from The Daily Wreck!

The new sister site The Daily Wreck Collection has clickable cover galleries for book, movie, tv, and web recommendation posts from this blog, plus a bonus gallery of all of the lists created for The Daily Wreck.

Enjoy!

[You can check out more gorgeous Hitchcock screenshots like the one above at "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock"]

Notice of a Brief Service Interruption

I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment, so it's going to be pretty quiet around here for the next couple of weeks.

We'll have the 300th recommendation to celebrate when things resume, though!

Spellbound screenshot from "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock."

See You in a Week or So

The (almost) Daily Wreck is going on a short hiatus. 

What a great opportunity to poke around in the Index of Names and Titles! 

You could go to "M" to see how I dealt with both David Mitchell the author and David Mitchell the actor.

Or! You could look at "H" to see my love of all things related to Audrey Hepburn. While you're there, you can take note of the fact that I've spelled Katharine Hepburn's name correctly.

Or, you could always just start with "A," I guess.

When The (almost) Daily Wreck returns from hiatus, we'll jump right into a celebration of the wonder that is Caroline Dhavernas.

See you then!

Image credits: 

First image [screenshot from The Birds] from "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock."

Second image [Caroline Dhavernas collage] from fyeahcarolinedhavernas.tumblr.com.

A Brief Time of Necessary Neglect

Sadly, I'll probably be neglecting things around here for the rest of the week.

But remember the Index of Names and Titles! It is a thing that exists.



[Image taken from the "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock" section of the Alfred Hitchcock Wiki. It is fantastic; do check it out.]

A Short Break

I'm taking a little time off. See you in a week!


In the meantime, please enjoy clicking around the Index of Names and Titles. You can:

• review all the times I've said something nice about Preston Sturges, 
• or count the number of titles that start with the word "Death," 
• or find out who Zuleika Dobson is, 
• or investigate why on earth Randy Quaid got mentioned somewhere. 

[Image taken from the "1,000 Frames of Hitchcock" section of the Alfred Hitchcock Wiki. It is fantastic; do check it out. Any guesses on which film this images is from? Hint: It's been a Rec.]

Index of Names and Titles

A few things to know about using this Index:

• Locators in bold indicate it's a post focusing on that title/name in particular.
• A locator with parentheses, such as (Rec. #1), means that the entry is mentioned in the post, but is not part of the main recommendation.
• Character names are generally listed if the post in which they're mentioned includes both first and last name.
• Titles that begin with numbers are alphabetized under the spelled-out number (e.g., the documentary 35 Up is under "T").
• Inclusion in the Index does not necessarily imply approval.

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