Category: Culture
Chicken Spiedini with Amogio Sauce
If it were up to me, we’d have pasta with a variant of tomato sauce for every meal. Instead, we have things like Chicken Spiedini
CorningWare: Everything Oldish is Newish Again
CorningWare is Em’s current obsession/old lady pastime. Do you have this stuff in your cabinets? And how much do you want for it?
The Month in Theaters April and May 2023
Once Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom came out, every spare moment I had in May outside of seeing movies in theaters was reserved for that game.
Sunday Morning! “Never Come Morning” by Nelson Algren
It’s hard to transmogrify work and poverty into art. Never Come Morning, by Nelson Algren, probably did accomplish that feat…
Saturday Morning Gaming: Diablo IV Proper
We are officially out of beta with Diablo IV. I played a Necromancer. He played a Sorceress. His wife played a Druid. We beat Act II.
Bring Back Playing Cards
Playing cards are simple enough to facilitate extended conversation during play, and are not siloed into exclusionary subcultures.
POETS Day! Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic poem containing some two hundred and fifty plus myths, is one of the most important works to come down to us from antiquity, at least as far as we can be sure it did.
Weekend Plans Post: Lines that Go Unexpectedly Hard
I noted this particular exchange with Maribou who told me “that sounds like Beckett.”
Nero Wolfe’s 45 Minute Scrambled Eggs
“Tell me forty minutes before you’re ready.” Her eyes widened. “Forty minutes?” “Yes. I knew you didn’t know.”
Star Wars Episode III, The War on Terror, & The Wars To Come
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of The Sith has seen a renaissance as the generation which first watched it has themselves now become adults.
Ice! Ice, Baby!
I drank my room temp water and seethed. And then I had a thought: Is there such thing as a countertop ice maker? Oh, there sure is
Thirty Years of Dinosaurs: An Ode To Jurassic Park
Dinosaurs are just cool. A sense of wonder is key to a good science fiction film and Jurassic Park plays it perfectly.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Serial Cleaner
A fun little nostalgic sneaker that tells you to not think so much about it.
POETS Day! Robert Service
A lot of Robert Service’s poetry is “Casey at Bat” length. It’s long enough to tell a tale and wander off on a wistful tangent here and there but not so long as to let an audience start to ask where the story’s going
Weekend Plans Post: School’s Out
I don’t know about you but I always preferred “I’m Eighteen” over “School’s Out”.
Sunday Morning! What is Literature? A little on Sven Birkerts
We now interrupt your scheduled arrival for a brief existential crisis. (Or, maybe, it’s just like that for me.)
Saturday Morning Gaming: Desert Island Games
So let’s say that you’re stuck on a desert island and you can only bring three games…
POETS Day! Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor inspired great loyalty in those close to him and his legendary temper caused those not close to sue him, often.
