Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: My Little College Diner Is Closing
My special little diner that I enjoyed from the mid-90’s to now is going away. Sigh.
Sunday Morning! The City & The City
A fellow who doesn’t read much in the way of speculative fiction reads a wild novel about overlapping “unseen” cities, murder, and intrigue- and emerges with his mind in knots but still intact.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Blizzcon
Blizzard had a much more successful Blizzcon this year than the one that they had last year.
But that wasn’t difficult.
Saturday Spins: Bob Dylan Travelin’ Thru
What makes this set so special is that includes Dylan’s work with the Man in Black, Johnny Cash
Weekend Plans Post: Spicy Chicken Sandwich Taste Test
We sat down with a Popeye’s Spicy in one hand and a Chik-fil-A Spicy in the other and did some comparing.
Monday Morning! More Selby Jr. and Beginning Bresson
On Hubert Selby Jr’s last novel and Robert Bresson’s “Diary of a Country Priest”, two portraits of isolated men who are suffering.
The Outer Worlds: The Partial Review
I haven’t beaten the Outer Worlds yet, but I can tell you this right now: I’m going to play it again after I play it the first time. (This is a non-spoiler review.)
Saturday Spins: Jack White
Jack White said that the inspiration for the songs on this record come from short stories and plays he wrote and later unearthed in his attic.
Sunday Morning! “The Seventh Victim” and “An American Tragedy”
This week, a bleak thriller from the 40s and a literary masterpiece that are both awash in sin.
Saturday Spins: Ryan Adams
This album release is credited as a solo Ryan Adams record, however, musically it is a Ryan Adams & The Cardinals record through and through.
Weekend Plans: The Snowstorm That Wasn’t
We were promised 3 inches of snow. Then 6 inches of snow. Then 9 inches of snow.
Sunday Morning! The Burden (2017)
On a surprisingly affecting short film in which stop-motion animated animals sing of their existential anxieties while working the night shift.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Wizard’s Academy
A board game that split the opinions of the people who played it.
Saturday Spins: Big Star
I discovered Big Star later on after they were championed by some of my favorite artists like Ryan Adams and Mike Viola
Sunday Morning! “Colorless Tsukuru Tzaki and his Years of Pilgrimage” by Haruki Murakami and R.I.P. Kim Shattuck
Murukami also reminds one of Kafka or Lynch in that he leaves many of his mysteries open and unexplained. Some will find this frustrating.