What made you smile today? A bookcase and Lovecraft.
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The question of the week, put to a reader in Denver: what is something that made you smile today? “I built a bookcase today and organized all my books, which is nice, including my apartment.” He reads history, “and then also like horror stories, kind of anthologies.” His author: “H.P. Lovecraft is one of them. That’s kind of a cliche.”
Anthologies, Maceo offers, “are like the whole archive of a subject, you know, that’s like what an anthology is.” He used to write, “more than now,” and has nowhere yet to send people, so Maceo makes the offer anyway: “if there was, I want you to be able to plug yourself since you were generous.” Maceo’s last question is the one the archive asks everyone: if you could ask people around the world one question next week, what would it be? His answer: “just like how you can make somebody’s day a little better, maybe.”
Filmed by Maceo for We Them Media and the poidh bounty. The transcript below is from the original audio.