Antkind / Coincidences

I can't remember where I heard about the movie Three Christs, but I watched the trailer sometime in early June (at least), and I was looking forward to seeing it as soon as it came out. I had marked its release date (June 16th, 2020) on my calendar and was planning on seeing it in the theater, so I'm wondering if I actually saw the trailer even earlier on...when we still went to see movies in theaters. At the very least it was at a time wherein it seemed possible that we wouldn't be on Lockdown for a very long time. (Sigh. Those were the days.)

June 18th: I'd found out that the movie was based on a non-fiction book, so I looked for The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach online, read the Amazon preview over the next few days, and wondered if I should buy it. Then looked to see if the public library had it. They did...but only in solid form. So I placed a request for it.

June 20th: rented Three Christs from Amazon. Watched it all by myself that evening. Thought it was great.

June 21st: watched Three Christs with Joe in the early afternoon, as time was running out on my rental. It's not exactly Joe's kind of movie--he favors explosions and a high death count--but he stuck with it until the end.


July 10th: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti finally became available for me at the library. (I'd had to wait some time as books are quarantined before they are released. Seems to me that that indicates a serious misunderstanding of Covid-19 transmission, but hey, you can't be too careful.) Took me a few days before I went to pick it up, then it sat on my book table for a few weeks, untouched.  For one thing, because I was pulling hard to read The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin (July 17th to July 23rd). For another thing, Charlie Kaufman entered the scene.


July 22nd: received an email alert that the ebook of Antkind by Charlie Kaufman was available. I had recently heard about this book and had read the Amazon sample. Thought about buying it, but found out the library had a copy (ebook only) and reserved it. It took a few weeks for it to become available to me.

July 23rd: downloaded and started reading Antkind.

July 26th: spent several hours looking for my Allen Wrench set. This is not something I usually do. In fact, it's been so long since I used my Allen Wrench set that I have no idea where it could be, which is why I spent hours searching for it. I'm now wondering if I still own an Allen Wrench set.

July 27th: (early early morning...like 3 am) read this in Antkind:

July 27th: a few minutes later read this in Antkind:

Yeah, I know. But it still impressed me.

ADDENDUM: 

July 28th: read this (around 2:30 am this morning):

After years of thinking, "I should read some Octavia Butler," I am currently listening to Kindred on audiobook AND reading a comic book adaptation of it simultaneously. So there's that.