Saturday Morning Gaming: The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
A choose your own adventure, of sorts.
Category: Culture
POETS Day! Fourteeners
“Fourteeners” is what you call iambic heptameter when it’s at home. It’s a fourteen-syllable poetic line divvied up into seven feet of paired syllables, unstressed followed by stressed.
Weekend Plans Post: They Have Stopped Making My Preferred Detergent
In which Jaybird rants about progress.
Understanding Libertarianism in the Current Moment
This is not about every libertarian. However, the basic tenets of libertarianism draw some people with poor social impulses and instincts.
The Month in Theaters September 2023
I saw fifteen movies in theaters (likely a personal record,) with two repeats, and an additional fifteen movies otherwise, for a total of twenty-eight reviews..
Saturday Morning Gaming: Q.U.B.E.
This weeks free games from the Epic Game Store are Q.U.B.E. and Q,U.B.E. 2, a nice little FPS puzzle game obviously inspired by Portal
POETS Day! Emily Dickinson, The Myth
She’s iconic and unavoidable so I girded myself and waded into her body of work. She only published ten poems in her lifetime
A Reverie on Failure Part 14: Coping with Urgency
While it’s true I could be using my time better, say, to finish a PhD dissertation, my disposition improves with each passing hour of sitting and observing.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Video Pinball on Sale at Costco
Costco is selling a fusion videogame/pinball machine with 10, count’em, 10 Star Wars pinball machines on it.
POETS Day! On James Joyce’s Ulysses with a Few Poems Thrown In
I’ve been fascinated by James Joyce’s Ulysses ever since I thumbed through my father’s college copy and a Uriah Heap concert ticket fell out.
Weekend Plans Post: Crossing the Finish Line
Holy cow. We might have actually finished up a bunch of stuff. (Knock wood.)
Rigatoni Capricciosi
Considering the ingredients, that should elicit a “Lé Fresca, Sherlock,” but given the hindsight obviousness of the combination, it was better than expected.
Review: The Water Lily Pond
The Water Lily Pond is a 2016 science fiction novel by our own Michael Siegel.
Sunday Morning! “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare
While it’s tempting to see “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare as a gentle story about forgiveness, love, and magic, its central protagonist makes that interpretation very difficult.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Marvel’s Avengers – The Definitive Edition
The studio was stuck between making things right for the players and making things right for the Venture Capitalists…and everybody lost
POETS Day! CS Lewis
The real stuff that can hurt you is more dangerous than the imaginary that can scare you, so his inventions cling to familiar things. In the same vein, CS Lewis’s conception of beauty is simply grounded.
Weekend Plans Post: The Joys of Being a Homeowner
I keep being surprised by 20 year items lasting only 20 years or so.
The Marriage Privilege
Marriage often gets a bad rap. In the sitcom world, marriage is a joke, a trope used to lob insults and putdowns back and forth between man and wife.
Striking a Chord: “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Most of the sniping at Oliver Anthony mostly just complained the song wasn’t about their hobby horses, without actually addressing his complaints.
