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Lists of 2022

I don’t like “Best of” lists, especially ranked ones. In my house it’s kind of a pastime to look at these lists and comment all the ways they’re wrong (or we just don’t agree with the listmaker’s choices). But I experienced a lot of good media this year, and in my case I do want to rank them because – while all of them were worth my time and I would recommend everything here to just about anyone – there is a weighted order of how much they impacted me.

As to why there are 8 in each list and not 10? I didn’t really mean for it to come out that way, but 1) beyond eight picks I stopped having super strong gut reactions to them, 2) 8 is my lucky number and it’s generally an auspicious one, so embrace the power of 8 in your life!

Books

  1. The World We Make by N.K. Jemisin
  2. Tripping Arcadia by Kit Mayquist
  3. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
  4. Matrix by Lauren Groff
  5. Wahala by Nikki May
  6. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
  7. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  8. What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

Albums

  1. AFTER DINNER WE TALK DREAMS by MICHELLE
  2. The Turning Wheel by Spellling
  3. Dance Fever by Florence and the Machine
  4. In The Green (Original Cast Recording) by Grace McLean
  5. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow by Weyes Blood
  6. Expressions by Music Go Music
  7. Ved by Ritviz
  8. Under the New Light by Maia Friedman

Movies

  1. Everything Everywhere All At Once
  2. Maeve
  3. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
  4. The Woman King
  5. Summer Wars
  6. Sing a Bit of Harmony
  7. Lupin III: The First
  8. Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

If you’re reading this, have a happy and safe rest of 2022 and best wishes/vibes for 2023!

My rage can’t be contained by a sign, or a blog post.

America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, ’cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say “You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the “land of the free”.

The American President, written by Aaron Sorkin