Some other ideas for your entertainment while isolated.

The 58th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is taking place next week and for the first time it will be virtual. I am not sure if the streams will be geo locked but it starts on Tuesday the 24th. I've worked with them in the past and it is worthwhile checking it out.

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is offering over 200 docs to stream worldwide. If you are home with the kids they also have about 30 docs for children.

If you need something to read Haymarket Books is offering 10 free books from people like Grace Chang, Naomi Klein, and Angela Y. Davis. (solidarity lefty stuff)

Arrrgh Powells Books is closing! And my local used book store is selling off and closing.

But conversely, I live near a military base and the marines don't take anything seriously that doesn't go boom. So they are all proceeding as normal.

And the big box home improvement store I work at is exempt from closing.

It's constant mental gymnastics.

I just saw that about Powells. I hope they can come back from this.

Home improvement is essential? That sucks.

If coloring is something you do to pass the time Call of Cthulhu the Coloring Book is available for free and Chaosium, the publisher, is running a contest with prizes.

Just talked with someone from the Ann Arbor Film Festival and if Vimeo is available in your country you should be able to see all the films.

Home improvement is essential? That sucks.

Not really. If something critical in your home broke during the quarantine, you need to be able to get what you need to fix it. Like, say, the valve in your toilet fails. You need to go get a new part somewhere, asap.

Just read my email and see the major home improvement stores in Canada have moved to a reduced schedule and a tool and auto parts store has dropped shipping charges on almost everything.