Sunday Morning! “In a Lonely Place” Novel vs. Film
The Nicholas Ray/ Humphrey Bogart film In a Lonely Place changes so much from the Dorothy Hughes novel as to be a different, much more devastating, story.
Category: Culture
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Having Beaten Elden Ring
Having beaten Elden Ring, what might be the best game I’ve played in years, I have thoughts about it. Like… how did it pull that off?
POETS Day! Edna St. Vincent Millay
I don’t know that I would agree with Edna St. Vincent Millay on very many things, but she was passionate.
Recipe: Inauthentic Steak Tacos
I hope you enjoy the inauthentic authentic looking steak tacos as much as we did
NFL Player Damar Hamlin In Critical Condition After In-game Collapse
The NFL’s Monday Night Football Game was halted after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.
It’s Warhammer 40,000 Time
Warhammer’s 40,000 saga is coming to a small screen near you via Henry Cavill, late of Superman and the Witcher, together with Amazon Prime
Sunday Morning, 2023! “Chess Story” by Stefan Zweig
The first thing that strikes me about “Chess Story,” the last piece of fiction Zweig wrote, is how well-constructed it is
The World Is Yours, Or At Least The Size of It Is
For all the debate, discussion, and derision social media gets for good, bad, and admittedly sometimes truly ugly, it is a tool.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Three Person Chess
I played my first game of three-person chess and have thoughts about it.
POETS Day! It’s Yeats Again!
Yeats wondered how the world could recover from a World War that drowned its innocence…but we survived. The center held.
The Best To You Each Morning: The Cereal In America Story
The inclusion of a bowl of cereal doused with milk in the breakfast ritual as practiced in the West is of relatively recent vintage.
My Top 25 Films Of 2022: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
We’re talking about top 25 films of 2022 that stood out from a field of nearly three hundred that I watched
Boxing Day Recipe: Lamb Stuffed Cabbage Rolls In Tomato Sauce
The following recipe for lamb stuffed cabbage rolls in tomato sauce is one of those. Takes 30 minutes out of your non-pressed Boxing Day
Christmas Morning! “The Tenants of Moonbloom” by Edward Lewis Wallant
A rollicking posthumous novel with a very Jewish punchline for its parable: Yes, everyone is kind of a schmuck. But we’re required to love them anyway. And isn’t that funny?
So This Is Christmas
Christmas is a time when we strive to be a better version of ourselves, no matter what our religious beliefs.
A Spoiler-Filled Review of Avatar: The Way of Water
I think James Cameron’s Avatar is the worst movie I’ve ever sat through. The issues with Avatar: The Way of Water? Legion.
Home for Christmas: A Portrait
The very notion of “home for the holidays” betrays the transience of it. It loops around on itself, as to say, there is a home and there is not home
