Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: Starting to Prepare for Winter
Holy cow, is the season changing again already?
Indeed it is.
Sunday Morning! “In the Summer House” by Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles only wrote one play. Like her one novel, In The Summer House is a strange tale of eccentric women and the ways their eccentricities set the course for the weaker-willed people around them.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Building The Dream Box Aftermath
The Good News: I built my dream box.
The Bad News: I deleted all of my saved games.
Saturday Spins: Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin III turned 50 years old on Monday. However, many of the songs contained herein are timeless classics.
Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It In A Time Of Covid
Batching it in the beforetime had a schedule, even if most of the schedule was “goofin’ off”.
Batching it during a pandemic means time has no meaning.
Classic Horror Films: The Best From The Original Universal Monsters
I figured I’d rank my top ten favorite classic horror films to watch in the coming weeks of this year’s fright season.
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Building A Dream Gaming Rig
Building a dream PC is like going to Build-A-Bear. Instead of just picking out a hat you’re asking about the CPU, and Motherboard, and…
Weekend Plans Post: Visiting Friends For The First Time Again
Maribou and I went out and visited friends for the first time since February. Holy cow.
How in the world did we do this regularly in the beforetime?
Sunday Morning! “The Spider’s House” by Paul Bowles
The Bowles series continues with Paul’s 1955 novel about the Moroccan independence movement and the struggles of ordinary people to keep a corner of their souls free of political power struggles.
Sunday Morning! “Two Serious Ladies”
Exploring the Bowles cannon continues with Jane Bowles’s more comedic novel about people who also wander halfway around the world to hear their own voice.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium is like if David Lynch did Planescape: Torment as a Detective Story in one of the nicer parts of Hell
Saturday Spins: Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
The Boss decided to look inward in the summer and fall of 1987 after his marriage to actress Julianne Phillips went down the shitter.
Weekend Plans Post: Advancements In Dentistry
On Smoking. On Chewing Gum. On Losing a Filling. On Going to the Dentist.
Sunday Morning! “The Sheltering Sky” by Paul Bowles
A debut novel that feels a bit like a rupture, not quite like anything that came before it, but marking a great deal that came afterwards. In The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles left all sentiment to die in the desert.
Saturday Spins: Justin Townes Earle In Memoriam
It is pretty hard for me to listen to this album and think that the world will not get any new music written by Justin Townes Earle
Saturday Morning Gaming: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is out and it is amazing. If you miss the old PS2 days of the game, you need to pick this up. The gameplay is as good as you remember.
Sunday Morning! “Not Dark Yet”
Berit Ellingsen’s beautiful and enigmatic debut novel details a modern day hermit seeking to avoid doing violence on an alien planet- ours.
