Saturday Morning Gaming: Castlevania (Remembered)
What is a man? This week’s free game from the Epic Game Store is the Castlevania Anniversary Collection.
Category: Culture
POETS Day! The Dreaded Poet Voice
The trick to a good reading of most poetry seems to be in courting but not abusing suspension of disbelief.
The Month in Theaters September 2024
I managed to get to the theaters thirteen times in September with nine movies otherwise, including one repeat, for a total of twenty-one reviews. An interesting month, no doubt.
97th Oscars Projections: The Awards Season Kickoff
The fact is that elections’ results have, and will, affect what Academy voters’ tastes are like for the season.
Series! Recap of World Series of the 2020s
It’s time for our quinquennial recap of recent World Series.
Saturday Morning Gaming: F.E.A.R.
Remember the whole thing with The Ring and The Grudge? Let’s do that with a video game!
POETS Day! Horace: Ode III, XXX
The nose wiping comment has me thinking that Roman colloquialisms are beyond my ken, so I’m not reading as much into that as I could.
Puppy Love in the IG Era: Ten Favorite Dog Breeds
Here is, in no massively particular order, a list of my ten favorite dog breeds
Saturday Morning Gaming: Stacklands
Stacklands asks the question “What if Cultist Simulator was nice?”
Weekend Plans Post: We’re Getting It Back
Every spring an hour is stolen.
This weekend is the weekend we’re getting it back.
POETS Day! Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark runs right up to the edge of crossing formal sensibilities with little near heresies, but she never quite does.
Well Tuned: Thanks Phil Lesh, Fare You Well
Phil Lesh has left this broke down place, but his music will continue on like the river that flows with sweet songs to rock our souls
Saturday Morning Gaming: Deeper into Black Myth Wukong
I’ve finished the first chapter and… it’s good.
POETS Day! William Faulkner’s Go at Anachronism
They are as youthful as cool spring grass. They also have the defects of youth—youth’s impatience, unsophistication and immaturity.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Killing a White Dragon
That’s my first dragon since the 80s. And it might have been the best night of D&D in my whole life.
On the Dodgers, Postseason Baseball, and Growing Up
The playoffs become Groundhog’s Day, and it breeds numbness and apathy. But this year, it feels different.
POETS Day! Why Is Tom Bombadil?
If you correctly type “semillon” the first result is the Wikipedia page for Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Good for Tolkien, but bad for Sauternes and trimmed sauvignon blanc.
