Virtual Serotonin
James Cromwell’s Wikipedia Page Was Just What I Needed
What a Babe!
There is real contentment to be found in browsing Wikipedia — learning about resolutely antisocial animals; chortling at the solemnly literal List of Lists of Lists; or streaming a television series, phone in hand, scrolling through the cast’s filmography. History is usually recorded by the most powerful, and even with Wikipedia’s egalitarian ethos of gathering information, it’s not entirely trustworthy. But it’s a solid starting point, and I consult Wikipedia so often that its presence in my browser history is as good as a diary when the days merge into one — what on earth was I doing on Tuesday? That’s right, Attica Prison riot, Bridey Murphy, Combahee River Collective.
With each passing day in 2020, it becomes less sweeping of a statement to say this year has been monumentally strenuous, in new and cruelly inventive ways. It doesn’t appear to be getting any less objectionable. And beneath that layer of global-scale devastation, we are individually facing our own bespoke challenges and hardships.
James Cromwell’s Wikipedia page was my grain of corn.
It would certainly be a sweeping statement to claim that reading actor James Cromwell’s Wikipedia page will solve…
