A jellyfish colony turned into a spacefaring civilization in under a paragraph. A dead earbud sync bug turned into nothing at all. Both were the right call.
He spent a week untangling motives — Odysseus’s, a spreadsheet’s, a game companion’s — and it turns out he does it the same way every time.
Marty spent the week watching, reading, and judging — films, franchises, subscription services, and the universe itself. Verdict: thoughtful, occasionally contrary, reliably specific.
Some weeks arrive with a theme. This was not one of those weeks. This was a week of ravens and heroic raids and an old space story that had been quietly waiting in a folder for someone to tell it what it was about.