Making Love in a Canoe
I’ve spent months boggling at the boycott of Bud Light, only now realizing that I am not sure that I even know what Bud Light tastes like.
Category: Culture
Weekend Plans Post: In the House of Charles Entertainment Cheese
I went back to Chuck E. Cheese’s for the first time since Reagan was president.
It’s a Barbie World
There’s not much to get fired up against unless you’re determined to be ticked off about it…the real world can be stranger than Barbieland.
Real Heros, No Money: A Review of Odd Hours, No Pay, Cool Hat
As a former volunteer myself, Odd Hours No Pay Cool Hat really goes to show you that there is nothing else like the heart of a volunteer.
POETS Day! John O’Brien
John O’Brien, a pen name for Monsignor Patrick Jospeh Hartigan, was an Australian poet who tended to the needs of Catholics in New South Wales in the early twentieth century
Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It Again
Maribou is out of town which means that it’s just me and the boys.
Puccini’s La Boheme: The Costs of Bohemianism
La Boheme’s audiences should understand its warning not as polemic against artistic endeavors, but such choices inevitably involve tradeoffs.
No, I Will Not Try That or Even Go to Your Small Town
Both songs are about growing up, but one is gruff and to the point…and the other is about making your momma proud.
An Unforced Error in a Small Town
On the latest kerfuffles to erupt regards Jason Aldean’s country song, “Try That In a Small Town”
The Hollywood Strikes: Contract Law
I wish both sides could lose the current WGA/SAG writing/acting Hollywood strike. Since that technically cannot happen, it stands to reason I have opinions on where everything stands. Such is that it is, I...
It’s Barbie’s World!
I love my Barbie dolls, but I still wasn’t really interested in the movie. But the hype finally got to me.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Nemesis System
I’ve been replaying Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War and I am, once again, taken with the Nemesis System they have.
Ten Things I Think After Watching Oppenheimer
Ten spoiler free things Andrew Donaldson thought on watching the latest Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer.
Weekend Plans Post: Before Your Bosses Come Back
My bosses have been out of town for two weeks. Monday, they return.
Sunday Morning! King Lear by William Shakespeare
Returning to it after a few decades, I realize how nightmarish is Shakespeare’s vision of human frailty, madness, and tissue-thin political power.
Weekend Plans Post: Melting, Melting, Melting
A few years back, there was an absolutely brilliant Mutts cartoon that explained how to read the temperature using a cat. Well, here’s how hot it was today…
Transgender Treatments and Parental Rights
Freedom includes the liberty to make bad, stupid, and even harmful decisions. How far should parental rights be extended in this area?
It’s HGTV’s Fault I Hate My Home, or Something
HGTV doesn’t make you insecure about your home any more than watching SVU makes you worry about getting arrested, unless you are projecting.
