Category: Culture
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.
Weekend Plans Post: Thinkin’ ’bout Numbers
A fun and funny problem solved involving things lost in translation
Megalopolis Is Terrible And Everyone Should See It
When does an artist lose his touch? Is it when he exhausts his creative impulses, or is it when those around him stop telling him “no,” and hubris consumes his output?
97th Oscars Projections: The Post Fall Festivals Outlook For The Best Picture Race
The year in film is indeed weak, and the campaign for the biggest prize in the industry is indeed wide-open as we enter mid-October.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Black Myth Wukong first impressions
If you liked Elden Ring and wish it were more like God of War? Get this game. Get this game *NOW*.
POETS Day! Mirrors and Robert Louis Stevenson
That’s it. I just wanted to say “I don’t like change” so it had a double meaning. It’s not even a joke, really.
Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ It for The OTHER Thanksgiving (And Silent Hill 2)
So, Sunday is the sister’s, Saturday is D&D, and Friday night is going to be Silent Hill 2.
Painting With Sound: Beetlecrab Audio’s Tempera
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene
There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds that goes thusly: The Biden Administration has, at best, slow walked the recovery efforts to Hurricane Helene’s swath of destruction or, at worst, actively obstructed those efforts...
POETS Day! WM Praed and an Irishman
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, a respected wit and politician who died young, tuberculosis at thirty-six. There’s still a Praed Society at Eton
Pete Rose and the Limitations of Hustle
As a kid I loved baseball and Pete Rose. I still love baseball, but evidence demands a verdict, and I long ago had a reckoning over Pete Rose.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Halls of Torment
Remember Vampire Survivors? This is like that… EXCEPT YOU CAN AIM!
POETS Day! John Crowe Ransom
I like Tillinghast’s phrase: “major minor poet.” Ransom’s precise word choice and easy formalism are things of wonder.
Weekend Plans Post: Commandaria
There are stories in Hesiod that talk about the type of grapes that make Commandaria and so this type of wine dates back at least to 800 B.C.
