POETS Day! Liking Robert Browning
He thinks Browning has a point to make but is too hard to understand, is a possibility. He could be dense. The problem is that Browning wasn’t just a shower.
Category: Culture
Weekend Plans Post: THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!
Holy cow. Is it Memorial Day already? Indeed it is. If I am very lucky, I will forget that Monday is a day off on Sunday night.
A Song of POTUS And Game of Thrones: US Presidents Placed in the Great Houses of Westeros
Game of Thrones and the presidents of the United States are different in so many ways, but they’re connected by the desire for power.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition is Epic Game Store’s Free Game this week.
You should know that the Epic Game Store has Dragon Age: Inquisition – Game of the Year Edition as its free game this week.
POETS Day! Philip Larkin and Narrative
Philip Larkin is brilliantly acerbic. He cuts cruelly because he cuts directly when mockingly describing habits and rituals of life he finds silly or undignified.
Weekend Plans Post: The Fall Guy (2024)
One guy cancelled, then another guy cancelled, and I said “We’re not going to play with 3. Let’s see a movie. Let’s see… THE FALL GUY.”
Music Monday: An Introduction to Ambient Dub Music
Ambient Dub music is a genre artists fold themselves into, rather than try to expand and break from. Some definitions and history are in order here.
POETS Day! GK Chesterton Was a Merry Old Soul
Chesterton got roped into a production of Old King Cole and it roused his muse.
Forensic Files II: Meh
Headline News revived the series as “Forensic Files II.” It took four years before I was willing to give it a try…
US Presidents Sorted Into Hogwarts Houses
In J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, the characters at Hogwarts are sorted into four different houses…let’s apply these to the US Presidents.
Class in 21st Century America
A discussion of class in America in the 21st Century through analysis of differential financial behavior as incentivized by the tax code
The Evolving Act of Physically Reading In a Digitial World
I cannot help but think about the difference in how I read in digital vs physical mediums, and how others might read differently also.
The Month in Theaters April 2024
This was a very good month in theaters. 14 movies in theaters, with one repeat, and an additional 19 otherwise, for a total of 32 reviews.
Music Monday: It’s Spring, Let’s Emerge!
“Let’s Emerge!” is Pye Corner Audio’s – known to his mother and his friends as Martin Jenkins – fifth studio album, and it is indeed a surprise.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Fallout 76 Reviewed
I’ve played it enough to reach a tentative conclusion, I think. Fallout 76 puts the cart before the horse.
POETS Day! Arnold on Dover, Hecht on Arnold
Matthew Arnold’s literary personage stands in contrast to his father’s upright example. And then it doesn’t. And then it does again.
Musical Complaints and Compliments about the Fallout 76 Radio Station
As I wander about the Appalachian Wasteland, I listen to a handful of original songs, some covers, and a DJ who encourages me to keep trying.
