Weekend Plans Post: Reacher Reviewed
If you liked the movies, you’ll love the show. Well, you might. It’s awfully violent.
Category: Culture
97th Oscars Projections: The Pre-Fall Festivals Outlook For The Best Picture Race
If the Spring and the Summer blockbuster season were the training camps for the best picture race, the fall film festivals are the draft.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to Slay the Spire (Again)
Two *NEW* characters to play (well, from the modding community)
POETS Day! AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad
AE Housman ennui appealed to a generation fighting for a world as they grew disillusioned with it.
Weekend Plans Post: Leiomyoma
A medical term that you have to google is rarely a good thing, but if you have to google one, it’s best when it doesn’t start with the letter “M”.
House of the Dragon Season 2 Cheats its Audience
The point is not to fetishize violence–it is to give the drama stakes. Otherwise, each episode is reduced to little more than a series of dialogue scenes
The Month in Theaters July 2024
I managed to get to the movie theaters 14 times in July, with one repeat, with an additional seven otherwise, for a total of 20 reviews.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Fury of Dracula
A game of cat and mouse. Well, Tom and Jerry. So, The Fury of Dracula is two things: Hide and Seek followed by Beat Dracula Up.
POETS Day! Alan Seeger
“Rendezvous” was published posthumously, probably written in 1916, months before his death at the Battle of the Somme
Weekend Plans Post: The Best Album Titles and How Kids These Days Don’t Know About Them
I asked him whether he listens to albums and… no. He does not listen to albums. He has satellite radio, and he also listens to podcasts
Be Excellent To Each Other
While I don’t want to write about the Olympic opening brouhaha, I think that there is something that needs to be said on the topic.
Simone Biles and Squad Get it Done in Paris
Simone Biles is a different beast. She manages to reach heights – literally, I mean – that amaze me, even as a lifelong gymnastics viewer.
Twister 2: Two Twisters!
Everything good in the Twisters movie is unspoilable. Be warned: We talk about more than the unspoilable parts.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Agony and Ecstasy of Out of Print Board Games
I’m now going through the tutorial for Fury of Dracula and finding that they go out of their way to say “you know what? Go to YouTube.”
Deadpool & Wolverine: A Nerd Buffet
While Deadpool & Wolverine is the only MCU movie this year, it gave me just about everything I could have wanted from the concept
On Civil War
A movie about how journalists who know nothing would imagine journalism to be during what they imagine a Civil War in the US would look like.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Assassin’s Creed 2: The Ezio Collection
The *BEST* Assassin’s Creed is available for less than $20.
POETS Day! Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe published the Imagiste’s do’s and don’ts in 1913: direct treatment of the thing, no superfluities, a music phrase.
