The Week, Links

Oof, brutal start to the fall — RIP: Diana Rigg, Gary Peacock, Sid McCray, Stanley Crouch, Randall Kenan.

Other matters:

• Is there a statue of Milton Friedman we can tear down?
• Justin E.H. Smith sez “The internet is not what you think it is.”
• Russell Smith, OTOH...* 
• Jodorowski reviews the Dune trailer. In fairness to Villeneuve, I’d say Villeneuve’s concept of the subversive is more in-line with Herbert’s than Jodorowski’s ever was. Which is odd, ‘cos Jodorowski remains quite the hippie.
• “People keep picking at my ‘Rise of Skywalker’ scab.” Ben Lindbergh wishes we’d just leave it alone. Me? I hereby declare Star Wars an open-source project — bring in the fans! Fan edits, fan-fic alternates, fan-based everything. We grew up with the toys in the sandbox. We can rescue this thing!

And finally: much ado this week about vinyl surpassing CD sales. Lots to love about vinyl, to be sure, but in this video a record producer sorts out what goes into each, and (spoiler) why CD is so much better. His metier is Metal, but dynamics are dynamics and the case could just as easily be made for any other musical genre.

*I enjoyed reading Russell Smith’s column, but was also unaware it had been yanked — almost a year ago. My excuse: I only read the G&M Saturday edition, in paper, never on-line. The G&M has walked in lockstep with the CBC for some decades now, and my taxes produce better online content than does a Toronto-centric commercial enterprise behind a firewall.