Saturday Morning Gaming: Still Looking for a PS5
The PS5 *STILL* cannot stay in stock. It goes to Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, or something and, yep, it gets sold out in seconds. Even still!
Category: Mindless Diversions
Saturday Spins Part 1: Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1
20 tracks of reinvented Sturgill Simpson and Sunday Valley songs, because Sturgill Simpson is a bit of a cosmic gift to country music.
Weekend Plans Post: The High School Reunion (Invite Version)
On one level I knew that, if one graduated high school at 18, then the “30 Year Anniversary” happens when one is 48. But on another level, I had no idea.
Sunday Morning! “A Little Devil in America” by Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib’s song of praise never elides Black pain or the reality of racism; but centers and is held aloft by Black miracles.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Cozy Grove and Being Nice
Why can’t we have a game where people are just nice to each other?!?!? Which brings me to Cozy Grove.
Weekend Plans Post: Champing at the Bit
We’re just going to clamp down and gut it out and get to next weekend. We are thiiiiiis close.
Sunday Morning! “Time Regained” by Marcel Proust
We’ve reached the final volume of “In Search of Lost Time” and, finally, our hero has realized the work of his life comes in those moments in which joy, unexpectedly, breaks through the crust of ordinary experience. Now, he can get to work.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Hades Again
Last week’s post was for people who might not have played Hades. This weeks post is for people who have beaten Hades and have favorite strategies.
Weekend Plans Post: Relearning What My Grandparents Knew About Oatmeal, Of All Things
As I grew up, I learned the occasional joy of oatmeal as a hot breakfast that sticks to your ribs.
Saturday Spins: The Notting Hillbillies
What is so different about the Notting Hillbillies is that Mark Knopfler eschewed front man status, and opted for a more background role.
Weekend Plans Post: Shaking My Head Like I’ve Napped Too Long
Since this is going to be a big summer, this weekend will be spent doing the usual Safe At Home kinda stuff (since we still have to get to there from here).
Sunday Morning! “The Fugitive” by Marcel Proust
There are many readers for whom “The Fugitive” is their favorite volume because it’s a psychologically rich depiction of heartbreak and its recovery, something to which we can all relate
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Fighting For Your Purpose
I’m playing Hades and it deserves a full write-up. I don’t have time, so know that Epic Games Store has The Fall as this week’s free game.
Saturday Spins-travaganza: Descendents
I consider Descendents to be an integral part of my teenage years. I hope these guys keep making music well into their golden years.
Sunday Morning! “How Proust Can Change Your Life” BBC2
I’m feeling a bit under the weather this week, so I think I will let Ralph Fiennes and the BBC fill in for me with “How Proust Can Change Your Life”
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Replaying the Campaign and On Not Bothering To
Marvel’s Avengers just announced that they will Implement New Game+…I didn’t know they hadn’t.
Saturday Spins: The Many Shades of Blonde on Blonde
To make the double feature work, I will do my typical track by track, but do a little comparison between the two Blonde on Blonde albums.
Weekend Plans Post: Daylight Saving Time and The Storm Of The Century
This weekend is going to be spent buckling down, going outside periodically to sweep the accumulated snow off of the sidewalk and getting back inside and getting warm again
Sunday Morning! “The Prisoner” by Marcel Proust
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust’s depiction of doomed and obsessive sexual jealousy is not nearly as bleak as I remembered. It’s tragic, but it’s a light tragedy.
