Weekend Plans Post: One of Two Things You Can Be Sure Of
There’s a game night on Saturday and that will be nice. But mostly, it’ll be nice to not have that Sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.
Category: Culture
Don’t Learn the Wrong Lesson From Laken Riley’s Murder
It is understandable to be angry in the wake of Laken Riley’s death. What isn’t defensible is to blame all immigrants, legal or otherwise
Refire A Classic: Deconstructed Salisbury Steak
This is not the comfort food steam table stuff. This Salisbury steak is cleaner and satisfies a different hankering.
Monday Music: A Review of Chains & Stakes by The Dead South
The country genre implies the presence of certain tropes which The Dead South don’t employ. So, what is their sound?
Saturday Morning Gaming: Marvel’s Midnight Suns
They said Marvel’s Midnight Suns was like XCom mixed with Slay the Spire. They also said it was $100.
The Month in Theaters January 2024
In the month of January, I managed to get to the movie theater ten times and watched an additional nine movies (with one repeat,) which is a total of eighteen reviews
POETS Day: Crow, by Ted Hughes
This is what you do, Ted. You will never be loved. If Hughes was cruel, he was thorough.
Weekend Plans Post: The Week From Heck (and Rhubarb Sauce)
Good on ice cream, good in a bowl of plain yogurt in the morning, good in a bowl of otherwise plain oatmeal…an excellent dessert sauce.
Top 10 Films of 2023
We give thanks to Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig for, quite by happenstance, creating a once in a lifetime theatrical event.
Dean McPhee’s Astral Gold Is a Must-Listen
Rare is the instrumental album which explores its theme in a coherent way to both artist and listener. Such an album is Dean McPhee’s Astral Gold
Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to New Vegas
After watching a zoomer play Fallout New Vegas, I went back to it. It’s still awesome.
POETS Day! Hartley Coleridge
He may not have achieved immortality on his own, but he’s firmly attached to the coattails of those who have.
Weekend Plans Post: A Sneaky Three-Day Weekend
Three co-workers have asked “wait, it’s a three day weekend?” and I was pleased each time to say it was.
Sap to Syrup: A February Tradition in the Cold North
Does this way lie madness? Perhaps, but it also leads to some damn fine maple syrup.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Watching a Zoomer play Fallout New Vegas
I got a friend’s kid a single-player game for his birthday. Watching a Zoomer play Fallout New Vegas. I am shook.
POETS Day! More Seamus Heaney and Thoughts on Touching Stuff
I suppose we have cells that touched cells that touched the Renaissance or got Irish petrichor on them. It’s a Kevin Bacon game at this point.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Taking Biogun-Clinical Trial for a spin
It’s like a video game version of Osmosis Jones for a dog, I guess.
POETS Day! Listening to Seamus Heaney
There’s a lot to say about Seamus Heaney, but I’ll get to that some other time. I’m stuck on sound right now.
