Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: Back To The Gym, Again, And Stranger Things
Stranger Things is our American Graffiti, I guess. Wait. Lemme do some math. This is our Summer of ’42. Wait. Lemme do some math. Jeez louise.
Sunday Morning! “Voices in the Evening” by Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg’s prose captures the stark, fragmented absurdity of life after the cataclysm of Fascism: everything is right there, but how do we engage with it?
Weekend Plans Post: Making a Frozen Pizza into Something Almost not Depressing
I don’t want to say that it wasn’t depressing at all… I mean, it’s a frozen pizza. But it was still pretty dang good.
Weekend Plans Post: Folding Towels
I was raised to fold towels one way.
I have since found a better one.
Saturday Morning Gaming: If you can’t be a good example, be a cautionary one
Starfield has been delayed.
Weekend Plans Post: Catching Up With Old Friends and Discussing Dating
Oh my gosh. It was like a horror movie. He told me about Tinder. He told me about Facebook dating. He told me about various first dates.
Sunday Morning! “Rudin” by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev’s first novel tells of a common type: the brilliant intellectual who could have changed the world, if only he’d get out of his own way.
Saturday Morning Reading: Harry Dresden’s Peace Talks and Battle Ground
I *FINALLY* got around to reading the two latest books in the Harry Dresden series: Peace Talks and Battle Ground
Weekend Plans Post: Getting in bar fights with Icelanders over whether Kiss is a better band than Sigur Rós
Some things should be obvious to anybody.
Sunday Morning! “This is Memorial Device” by David Keenan
Because, like all great books on music, David Keenan is really writing about us, nudging us in the ribs, and saying Hey, do you remember…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Katamari Damacy REROLL
Katamari Damacy is crazy game that was just so crazy that it worked
Weekend Plans Post: Going to a Wedding Again
When I was a kid, I thought weddings were the most boring thing in the world. Now? Heck, the wedding I went to last weekend might be the highlight of the year so far.
Sunday Morning! “The Gospel Singer” by Harry Crews
It’s hard to write about the South. Harry Crews’s first novel took a tone somewhere between the Grand Guignol and the Grand Ole’ Opry.
Saturday Morning Gaming: For the Emperor
Taking the Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor – Martyr complete collection for a spin, since it is on sale
Saturday Morning Gaming: Recreational Snooping With Beholder
Beholder is a game where you play a member of the Stasi. But it’s kind of fun anyway.
Weekend Plans Post: The Stolen Day Off
Sometimes you ask for a day off.
Sometimes you get one anyway.
