Saturday Spins: Leon Bridges Good Thing
Leon Bridges occupies a space or two because I dig his particular brand of soul. It’s not too poppy, and it isn’t too experimental to seem like it’s a parody.
Leon Bridges occupies a space or two because I dig his particular brand of soul. It’s not too poppy, and it isn’t too experimental to seem like it’s a parody.
You can’t make sense of bad decisions people have been making in 2020 without considering how society has destroyed our sense of community.
A lot of this can all be explained with one simple phrase, 1960s Bob Dylan is not the same Bob Dylan of today.
Finally, a weekend where it’s not going to be *THAT* tough to not want to do anything in the outside world.
Now as 2020 starts to churn towards the end, it’s time for another report card for the film industry.
Because part of becoming a modern adult is learning to hate everything that might have made you happy as a kid.
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming out on Thursday, the day after tomorrow, and there is already a great deal of controversy surrounding the game.
In eulogizing Chuck Yeager, a broken telephone pole in West Virginia seems an unlikely place to start. But it is the perfect place to start.
Enduring institutional death is a difficulty of another magnitude and rising again is all but impossible. But some can die healthy deaths.
This week I read two novels by Hari Kunzru, a modern magician of storytelling, though the tricks worked better in one of them for my tastes.
A comparison between Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas gives one of the best examples of Doing It Right versus Missing The Mark.
Superman, Gary Cooper, Straw Man Fallacy, and Hollywood’s 50-some-odd years of embracing the anti-hero to a ridiculous extreme.
You know when you’re dealing with the blues, you’re gonna have to eventually deal with the devil.
Holiday memories force me to face my own mortality and reflect on my perspective of coming of age in a previous century.
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ end of week tradition of bringing you news, notes, and notions from across the web to read, share, and discuss
Which makes this weekend the last one before Cyberpunk 2077 comes out and the last one before the week before the silly season.
This all sounds strangely familiar…which means we can guess where this is going. Spoiler Alert: It involves massive amounts of money
Stop normalizing pathological snobbery, such as “everyone who voted Trump is an inbred, lardlicking oaf ripped from Hillbilly Elegy”
I am going to get a jump on my cybersecurity colleagues and get those mandatory predictions out there now before the rush.
This week, If Beale Street Could Talk and Riot Baby, two stories, 46 years apart, about young Black men imprisoned, a disturbingly perennial theme