Monthly Archive: April 2020
Something Has Got to Give: Law, Liberty, and Coronavirus
I wonder how far they can go, how long this can go on, before we lose our collective willingness to submit.
100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 2: The 1930s
If the 1920s established film as a way for Americans to pass the time, the 1930s established its celebrity and its integration into the fabric of American culture
Sunday Morning! Tarkovsky’s “The Sacrifice” (1986)
Tarkovsky’s final movie, about a man willing to sacrifice everything to undo the cataclysm engulfing his world, rings strangely true right now.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Paper Towels
Playing games is a nice diversion from normal life. But life is abnormal.
A Coronavirus Garden in the Sun
So, despite being an avid vegetable gardener, I have not been able to indulge in my hobby, having to keep myself limited to a couple flower beds, hanging baskets, and plants that mice don’t have a taste for.
Saturday Spins: Desaparecidos
What happened when the saddest man in Omaha decided to “make a rock record with the disappeared?” Magic.
Pandemic Dreams of Stranger Things
So I was reading that a lot of folks have been having bad dreams about Covid19. You can read some of them here: Vivid ‘Pandemic Dreams’ and Nightmares Keep Nation Awake During Coronavirus Outbreak....
The Well Made Bed, Ready for Lying
How you feel about this current fourth season of the ongoing #1 rated reality show in America “President Trump vs The Media” will color how you feel about such things.
Pepperoni Rolls: West Virginia’s Official Food, Not a Hot Pocket
You should try a pepperoni roll sometime if you get the opportunity. Just make sure it is an actual pepperoni roll, and not one of the weak wannabe versions
Weekend Plans Post: What *WOULD* you have planned for this weekend, if you could?
Just the simple little joys of running the errands that I haven’t run for a month would sound sooooooo good.
German Scientists Find That Acting German Spreads Coronavirus Less Than Acting Un-German
“One pattern we are seeing across the globe is that wherever there was singing and dancing, the virus spread more rapidly”
Tiger King: America’s Newest Obsession
Never before have I watched a documentary where several of the interview subjects say things that are potentially incriminating. It is like a prosecutor’s wet dream.
Mini-Throughput: Visiting the Neighbors Edition
There’s obviously a long way to go before we send off our first interstellar probe. But we have a destination and a serious proposal on the table. And we have the money and the technology. It’s only a matter of time and will.
Burnt Ends: The Fast History of Low and Slow Life
He chewed, making a deep rumbling noise among the masticating before the actual word formed and escaped his still-in-motion mouth. “Glory.”
Reality Comes and Brings the End for Bernie Sanders 2020
Bernie Sanders is ending his presidential campaign
