Sunday Morning! “Another Country” by James Baldwin
In what feels like four novels in one, James Baldwin covers everything he knows about how internalized social opprobrium can warp our capacity to love. It’s… a lot.
Category: Culture
POETS Day! Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens appears to have a need for religion even though he’s rejected it. There’s an absence he feels.
Pork Chops alla Milanese
The Italians have cotoletta alla Milanese and the Austrians have Wiener schnitzel. So let’s make Pork Chops alla Milanese
“Working-Class Wannabes” and the Language of Sports
Sports fans have a tendency to code-switch into the appropriate sports dialect when talking about the various sports people play or consume.
My Dad Quit Drinking, So I Find Reasons to Complain About It
My dad quit drinking. I have never known a sober version of my father or even one I felt had the potential to quit. So, who is this man?
Parenthood Control, As In Self Control, Dystopian And Otherwise
I’m not going on some crusade to purge the kid-centered dystopian genre, I just individually don’t want to ride that ride anymore.
Saturday Morning Gaming: A few moments with Diablo IV
KFC had this promotion where if you bought a double-down, you got a free ticket to play Diablo IV. I want to shake the hand of the guy who came up with this brilliant cross-promotion.
POETS Day! Delmore Schwartz
I can’t speak to Delmore Schwartz’s entire body of work, but of the poems I’ve come across, this seems the best and most complete convergence of the themes I mentioned above.
The Haller Pizza
This combination is known as The Haller Pizza at my house. We make it at least once a month.
Shopping In The Year 2023
Do you do curbside shopping? Delivery? Walmart+? Are you having any problems with Amazon Prime?
The Oscars Were Everything, Everywhere, And All At Once
This overwhelming dominant performance throughout all of awards season tells me it was always going to be Everything Everywhere All At Once
Breifly, On The Caterwauling Over How Meg White Bangs On a Drum
Yes, no one plays drums like Meg White. That’s the point.
Chicken á la Peasant
Chicken á la Peasant is my variation of Chicken a la king. This is cut down for those of us who actually work and we toss the puff pastry shell because we don’t have time for it.
Sunday Morning! A Tale of Two Novels
A recent book on the art world did not exactly rock mine. But “Leaving Brooklyn” from 1989- that’s the one you’ve gotta read.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Coming Down the Pike
From the Creators of War for the Overworld! From the guys who actually made a decent Battletech Game!
Diabetic Friendly Pecan or Walnut pie
Late last year that craving got the best of me and I worked out a reasonable copy of pecan or walnut pie with no sugar.
7 Ways to Improve the Oscars
It’s best to theorize ways we can improve the ceremony we hate to love into a ceremony worth our time and attention.
