Do:
Watch Mad Max: Fury Road
Tell a story at The Moth
Listen to Reply All's "Flower Child"
Listen to Dr John's "I Walk on Guilded Splinters"
Follow the fascinating NL pennant race
Don't:
I dunno, guys. Don't vote Trump? I guess that's what I've got for Don'ts this week.
Do
Watch Wet Hot American Summer (both the movie & TV show)
Watch Hurricane of Fun, about the making of Wet Hot American Summer (I’m not kidding about this)
Listen to this spellbinding episode of Love + Radio, “Greetings from Coney Island”
Walk somewhere you would normally drive to
Read Joan Didion’s The White Album
Watch the trailer for the mountain climbing doc Meru:
Vote Deez Nuts in 2016
The only candidate who is taking this election seriously enough.
Don’t
Sleep in and miss the sunlight
Refer to your pet as your “son” or “daughter”, or yourself as its “mom” or “dad”
Foist reggae onto the customers at your coffee shop
Refer to yourself as “a creative” because you write or draw or do macramé
Worry too much about Donald Trump, there’s nothing you can do to change him or it or anything
Do
Read Station Eleven
Watch the first season of Six Feet Under
Read this Vox piece on the dangers of mob justice
Watch this video of an elephant calf meeting some birds:
Eat Cascadian Farm granola
Fancy, no?
Listen to conductor Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars
Play The Last of Us on PS4
Listen to my friend Audrey Quinn on 99% Invisible, talking about the AIDS Ribbon
Watch the following gif over and over again.
Don’t
Watch the Minions movie (it blows)
Watch the second season of Six Feet Under
Read the comments on any article about Cecil the Lion
Try to talk to Mariners fans about Dustin Ackley
Run the Suncadia Half-Marthon (the course is too long and is mostly around a golf course)
Be a jerk