I rely too heavily on adjectives

Monday evening, I went to test-drive a car for my 16-year-old, and the woman selling it put it in drive instead of reverse and smashed into an iron fence as I was standing there watching. We were both so stunned that we could barely talk to each other, but an hour later, she texted and said, "I am going to be telling this story for the rest of my life." She only had to replace a tire and its rim so we're hopefully going to buy it after all, but I will also be telling this story for the rest of my life. Here's hoping none of us get so preoccupied this week that we forget which direction to go in.

🎥 They Called Him Mostly Harmless (Max)
Y'all. This doc is bananas. BANANAS, I say. The story itself is interesting—an army of people around the country struggle to identify a hiker found dead in his tent—but the interview subjects are 100 times more interesting than the mystery man. It's like the filmmakers worked to find a story that involved the maximum number of mentally unstable people. Two amateur crime sleuths battle for control of a Facebook group, an adorably geeky man whose interview background is a gigantic aquarium of turtles plays a song he wrote for the hiker, and 6 elderly couples participate in a square dance in the bleakest room in America. Do not miss this.

🎥 No One Will Save You (Hulu)
Apparently, the producers elected to send this straight to streaming instead of showing it in theaters, and that is a damn shame. It is a fantastic creature feature that would have been so fun to watch on a big screen. As an added bonus, Kaitlyn Dever's main character has a compelling back story that goes beyond your standard alien movie fare. A nice surprise.

📖 Ex-Wife
This was recommended by the delightful woman who writes Read Like the Wind, a NYT newsletter that has off-the-beaten-path recs. Which is how I ended up reading a book written in 1929 about divorce. It turns out that topic is pretty timeless, and I thoroughly enjoyed - and related to - her narrative. Check out this line about her ex-husband: "All there is left of the power we had to stir each other, is a wonderful ability to make each other wince." Make sure you read the foreword about the author too.

Have a fulfilling week, my friends. xoxo