Weekend Plans: The Eye of the Hurricane
So, this week will be spent gearing up to prepare for the coming autumn that will, unfortunately, look like last autumn…but with more hugs
So, this week will be spent gearing up to prepare for the coming autumn that will, unfortunately, look like last autumn…but with more hugs
Marketing is a discourse that is rarely done well, largely due to small-minded people who think marketing is glorified brainwashing
Scarlet Johansson’s lawsuit might change the film industry for the talent involved, but could even change how we watch and pay for new movies
The second book in Butler’s Parables series shows how our stories can often blind us to reality, but also keep us alive.
Banners of Ruin is a deckbuilder that got its full release just this week. So here are some first impressions.
Lending libraries began among the lumières who could afford them. Thoughts on public bookcases, private vices, and their discontents.
The Ordinary Times tradition of ending the week by bringing you stories from across the web and around the world to read and discuss
We had plans for Saturday night. They have since been cancelled. But there’s this nice little “we don’t have to do anything? Anything anything?” that is hiding there in the back.
Dusty Hill, the long-time bassist and vocalist for legendary band ZZ Top, died in his sleep at the age of 72.
From the Marshmallow Test to lottery tickets for getting the COVID vaccine, people respond to the incentives presented to them
Revisiting Ally McBeal, a cast of obnoxious people that it was fun to spend time around, and looking forward to the revival, which could be absolutely awful.
Here are the 25 films I seriously consider as potential contenders for the nomination of 2022 Best Picture as of today
Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower posits a future dystopia that’s located just right next door to us, and gives a few glimmers of hope that individuals might work together and make it slightly less horrible.
Orcs Must Die! fuses great ARPG gameplay with great tower defense gameplay. If you like either, you’ve gotta pick this one up.
Wormwood is a Netflix series about MKUltra and the bizarre death of Dr. Frank Olson. Is it a dramatization or a documentary? Yes.
One of our nephews is starting his Freshman year come September. What do college freshmen need these days for getting ready for college.
How do we know which version of Jesse Singal — if either — is true? Ultimately, the best solution involves careful study and analysis.
How can one “Bitcoin millionaire” suddenly create a competing “Freedom” phone overnight? The answer is that…he probably can’t.
In this most chaotic time we’ve been going through, along came Blaseball that captured that chaos and channeled it into creativity
Hayek argued consistently on “social” being a bad adjective, making whatever word that follows the opposite of what that word means by itself