Category: Mindless Diversions
The 2024 Best Picture Oscar Race: The Initial Spring Outlook
Its not too early to start looking at what could compete for the biggest prize at the 96th Academy Awards which will take place around this time next year and honor this year in film.
Sunday Morning! A Tale of Two Novels
A recent book on the art world did not exactly rock mine. But “Leaving Brooklyn” from 1989- that’s the one you’ve gotta read.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Coming Down the Pike
From the Creators of War for the Overworld! From the guys who actually made a decent Battletech Game!
And The Oscar Goes To: Final 2023 Oscars Projections
My Final 2023 Oscars Projections. Here’s hoping Everything Everywhere All At Once finishes off the historic sweep. Otherwise you will be hearing a shout of anger and absolute shock coming all the way from Central Florida.
Sunday Morning! “Wild Strawberries”
If you haven’t seen a Bergman picture, I’d start with Wild Strawberries. It’s one of his most accessible masterworks, and its reputation has grown since its release 1957.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Hogwarts Legacy After A Week and Revisiting Duskers
Checking in on our three players from last week.
Weekend Plans Post: Whiplash
“We were driving around with the windows down on Tuesday!”, I yelled, as we drove slowly through an inch of snow.
Sunday Morning! The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
In his highly lauded novel “The Underground Railroad,” Colson Whitehead, rewires the creaky old machinery of the novel and finds it still able of reaching surprising new depths.
Weekend Plans Post: Nothing Is Happening
As nice as it is to do something, it’s kinda nice to do nothing.
Sunday Morning! “Katalin Street” by Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó published Katalin Street 20 years before The Door, and 10 years after being rehabilitated as a former “enemy of the state.”
Weekend Plans Post: The Belated Birthday Party
One of my buddies turned 40 four or five months ago. We’re celebrating this weekend.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Dead Space Remake Review
Dead Space is a game set up in chapter form. Each chapter could well be named “NOW WHAT?”
