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It’s a holiday week. Here’s some stuff to read.
Inside Danny McBride’s Lowcountry Comedy Commune [Sam Schube/GQ] — Incredibly talented dude, operating within his comfort zone, with people he cares about, and enjoying his life. Left Los Angeles and set up a production studio back in South Carolina. This is one of the recipes for happiness.
in 2017, he and a handful of his closest collaborators, who also happen to be some of his closest friends, decided to move to South Carolina, where they had filmed plenty of TV and then returned together as serial vacationers. The plan was simple, but grand in ambition: to airlift the whole McBride creative brain trust, 8 or 10 whole families, to a pleasant and occasionally hard-partying city far from the spotlight.
The Mysteries of Plant ‘Intelligence’ [Zoë Schlanger/The Atlantic] — So many weird and wonderful aspects of nature and evolutionary biology.
Rhoades [zoologist and chemist] had watched a nearby forest be decimated by an invasion of caterpillars. But then something suddenly changed; the caterpillars began to die. Why? The answer, Rhoades discovered, was that the trees were communicating with one another. Trees that the…
