The Month in Theaters February 2024
Ten movies in theaters in the month of February, with one repeat. This was better than last month with one clear standout.
Category: Culture
Happiness, Ranked and Revealed
Understanding younger Americans “happiness” drop off has to include the conversation of carefully cultivated social and news media intake
Spring Lamb from a Once Noisy Rock
This is a recipe for Springtime. It’s lamb shank in a white wine vegetable braise; rustic osso buco. I’m a sucker for lamb shank
Girl Dadding in the Taylor Swift Era
A bunch of my 90s artists overdosed, died tragically, or revealed themselves as deviants, so spare me “Taylor Swift is bad for my children.”
Shopping For What You Forgot: Blue Box Store v Red Box Store
Shopping for what you forgot for the trip you are on, and the variations between the Blue big box store and the Red big box store.
Music Monday: The Roland S-1 Tweak Synth
Yes, they were tacky. Yes, they attempted to grant unto the venerable keyboard the rock star charisma of the guitar. But hear me out…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Nobody Saves The World
If you’ve been wanting a fun Metroidvania ARPG with cute graphics, interesting puzzles, and fun combat, this is one of those games
POETS Day! Paul Laurence Dunbar
It was during Paul Laurence Dunbar’s time as an elevator operator that he put together “Oak and Ivy.” A lot of his sales went to regular elevator customers.
Weekend Plans Post: Molasses Baked Beans and Laparoscopy
A baked beans recipe and back to the hospital. As such, this weekend will be spent eating beans and recovering.
Meatballs with Sausages: Breaking the Code of Silence
This post is about making meatballs, and how grandmothers are duplicitous, self-interested, conniving, and not to be trusted.
Kacey Musgraves Does What Taylor Swift Hasn’t: Grow Up
In the gentlest way possible and with all due humility, this celebrity stoner tells us, “Get off your ass and stop dulling your senses.”
Are The Oscars Becoming “Cool” Again?
The complaints about the Oscars not connecting with the regular person off the street have been becoming more and more faint
Music Monday: The Magnetic North’s Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North
This week’s Music Monday topic: The Magnetic North’s 2012 debut album Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a beautiful homage to the archipelago
Saturday Morning Gaming: More Helldiving (now with Mechs!)
Helldivers 2 has added mechs. Repeat: Helldivers 2 has added mechs.
POETS Day! The Poetry of Ninth Grade English, Revisited
William Butler Yeats, R.S. Gwynn, Ellen Kay, and other selections from ninth grade along with an admonition to not get on my lawn
2024 Oscars Projections: And The Oscar Goes To
And The Oscar Goes To: Luis Mendez presents his annual, final predictions for this weekend’s 96th Academy Awards ceremony.
Music Monday: Review of Joe Hollick’s Rest Lessness
The best records are the ones that can both grab you immediately but also grow on you. Joe Hollick’s Rest Lessness does that.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Helldivers 2
If you’re looking for a silly and goofy game where you run around and kill bugs and yell stuff about democracy, you need to get Helldivers 2.
POETS Day! The Rape of the Lock
This week’s poem is “The Rape of the Lock” nods at Homer, Virgil, and Milton. Like ‘American Vandal,’ it’s a true crime send up.
