The Sunday supplement: No. 67

A Martin Amis stalking story, how to receive less junk mail at home, a new film for mountain lovers, and some surprises from the week in web

First off, a wonderful, 10-minute film on how to visualize time, via a dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert. (Thanks, Jason.)

Meanwhile, RIP, Tina Turner, RIP Martin Amis.

Tina Turner was amazing, obviously. The Tina doc from a couple years ago was great and too short. Interestingly, it shed a lot of light on her life in Switzerland. (An article from the week: “A public person in a private country: Tina Turner reveled in ‘normal’ life in her Swiss home.”)

For a full round-up, I enjoyed this from Rolling Stone: “We’ll Never Live in a World Without Tina Turner.” Also, this footage from 1965:

For Amis, the one time I saw him was a few years ago at the Miami Book Fair. I brushed shoulders with him in the authors’ lounge and recognized him – sullen posture, resting-jerk face – and decided to slink after him from a distance, out the door and down the hall.