I spent some of the night of my Friendsgiving party this year fielding this question: “What are you doing with all the answers to these questions you put on the table? Is that going to be a game?”
It wasn’t an unreasonable question. I just hadn’t decided that I was going to with the answers yet. Now I have !
Favorite Book of the Year (new or new to you)
Answers presented exactly as they were written on the index cards:
Come As You Are (a book about sex)
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
A Plague of Giants
Seven Kennings Trilogy, Book 1
When McKinsey Comes to Town
Black Leopard Red Wolf
Marlon James
Moon Witch Spider King
Marlon James
Small Things Like These (fiction)
Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer Pahlka
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Adrienne Marie Brown
Moon Witch Spider King
Marlon James
(my friends and I are part of a Marlon James cult 🙂
The City We Became
N.K. Jameson
Favorite Album of the Year (new or new to you)
Answers presented exactly as they were written on the index cards:
Single: “Angel”
Halle
Cracker Island
Gorillaz
Jarkak Quribak
Magic 3
Nas
Scarlet
Doja Cat
Wild Creatures
Neko Case
But Here We Are
Foo Fighters
False Lankum
Lankum
New Blue Sun
André 3000
Phantom of the Afters
Kojaque
Favorite Movie of the Year (new or new to you)
Answers presented exactly as they were written on the index cards:
3,000 Years of Longing
Theater Camp
 Super Mario Bros, The Movie
Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse
Empire of Light
Close
Past Lives
Everything, Everwhere, All At Once
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The Sound of Metal
Aftersun
Barbenheimer
(we all know this is a phenomenon and not a movie 🙂
