Holidays and Cooking
Holidays and Cooking: Here are a few gems that may set you apart from others in your social and familial spheres.
Category: Culture
POETS Day! Clement Clarke Moore
This week’s featured poem by Clement Clarke Moore, “The Pig and The Rooster,” keeping in mind that as far as I know no one is disputing he wrote this one
Weekend Plans Post: The Christmas Bomb Cyclone
Holy cow, is it Christmas Weekend already?
Indeed it is.
Dude, Where’s My Streaming Show?
The curious case of shrinking streaming inventory. All I can say is…be prepared. Your favorite show on streaming may disappear. Any time.
The Oregon Doughnut Run
Across from the Area 51 gift shop and cathouse, and five gallons of 87 later, I was back on the road on for the Oregon Doughnut Run.
Army Should Have Gone Bowling
There’s no reasons accommodations couldn’t be made to put Army Football in a bowl ahead of teams with losing records.
My Favorite Documentaries Of 2022: One Critic’s Best Of The Year List
Since I leave them off my “best of” lists, I thought I’d highlight which ten documentaries were among my favorites from 2022.
Saturday Morning Gaming: On Fun
I watched one of Yahtzee’s Extra Punctuations and I have some thoughts.
POETS Day! Mark Van Doren
Mark Van Doren’s “Looking for Something Lost” is a fleeting thought the poet freezes, fleshes out, and once considered brings to conclusion.
Weekend Plans Post: 9 Shopping Days Until Christmas
Holy cow, are we halfway through December already?
Sunday Morning! “The Door” by Magda Szabó
They always judge you. On Hungarian writer Magda Szabó’s haunting novel about a housekeeper who loves and persecutes her employer in equal measure.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Pentiment First Impressions
Becoming a Medieval Master in a game made by Obsidian.
POETS Day! Roy Campbell
Sometimes I feel bad for people who don’t speak English and are stuck calling their master lyricists words like poeta, digter, imbongi, or tusisolo that don’t form tidy acronyms encouraging their better hedonist angels....
Weekend Plans Post: The Preparation for Monday
“One of life’s most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life’s least appreciated pleasures is defecation.”
–Mark Twain
Dick Cavett Revisited
When watching reruns of The Dick Cavett Show, you can literally hear New York City slip further into its decades’ long decline.
The Twelfth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide
An Ordinary Times tradition unlike any other: The Twelfth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide
Sunday Morning! “Tinkers” by Paul Harding
Taking time for Paul Harding’s Pulitzer winning first novel about a clock repairman and horologist for whom time is quickly running out.
Saturday Morning Gaming: God of War Ragnarök and Appointments in Samarra
Pointing and yelling: “NO THAT IS NOT HOW YOU AVOID THE PROPHECY THAT EXPLAINS THAT GJALLARHORN KICKS OFF RAGNARÖK”.
The Month in Theaters: November 2022 Movie Reviews
Nine movies in theaters, twenty-four outside of theaters, with two repeats, for a grand total of thirty-one reviews.
