Weekend Plans Post: Sitting in a basement on a Saturday night. But different.
The quarantine was rough on the gaming group. It’s the first gaming group since… January of last year? February of last year?
The quarantine was rough on the gaming group. It’s the first gaming group since… January of last year? February of last year?
Declining fertility rate is something to be concerned about. But our power to do anything about it is extremely limited.
Why does the middlebrow matter? Who cares what a Jane or John Doe has to say about the Great Books or politics? The answer is obvious…
Before you look at me like I’m nuts for 2022 Best Picture projections, I’ll remind you there’s one model of the 2024 presidential race already.
After weeks of waiting, but no public release of the bodycam and other footage, no charges will be filed in the shooting of Andrew Brown, Jr.
After a year and half of mask mandates, you don’t have some insightful hot take on Covid that no one has yet heard by now.
The entire genre of “Real America” is predicated upon the rural, urgent, rough, and weird being more real than the polished humans we present
Jim Harrison’s classic character Brown Dog seems to have figured out life’s secret- we’re just here to play.
I almost didn’t want to write this because it’s about a game that manages to be addicting without being fun.
If those numbers seem impossible to believe, that is what is possible when abuse is spun out over decades because of an institutional refusal to intervene.
I was wrong. I thought I’d heard every West Virginia joke there is. But then the drug companies decided to make bank off the “pillbillies”.
Linky Friday is the long-running tradition at Ordinary Times to bring reading from people across the web and around the world to discuss.
It seems weird to be tentative about easing back into public life after a trip to Disney, of all places…but it still feels a little weird
And now, for something completely different…to toast, or not to toast? And at what price? Let us find out through the magic of YouTube…
Our case of the week, M&A Associates v. VCX, meant the American classic Debbie Does Dallas was being thrusted forever into the public domain.
Welp…so much for that plan. A Federal judge has blocked the NRA’s bankruptcy filing “not in good faith.”
The opioid crisis has brought a dark and dusty sky upon places like West Virginia, and like all darkness it only abates one way. Shining light.
Fellini’s heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence.
Ape Out: The chaotic joy of breaking out and running as far as you can. Content Warning: Surprisingly graphic violence for such a minimalist art style
Expanding into a more pop-rock sound, Aaron Lee Tasjan has endlessly catchy songs in the vein of Tom Petty, ELO, and The Traveling Wilburys.