POETS Day! Comparing Apples and Rossettis
As best I can tell, this is the entirety of an unfinished poem written between 1869 and 1886 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Category: Culture
Weekend Plans Post: Exploring Fallout (the Show, I Mean)
They put effort into the sets, they put effort into the dialog, they put effort into the casting…I’m shocked. Fallout the show is good.
Music Monday: Happy 30th Birthday To The Greatest Ambient Album Of All Time (Maybe)
Global Communication, along with a slew of other aliases, was the brainchild of English duo Tom Middleton and Mark Pritchard.
My Top 10 Simpsons Episodes
Since 1989, The Simpsons has entertained us with pop culture moments. These are my ten favourite episodes featuring the yellow family.
Misinformation, Redefined Beyond All Meaning
The professional grifter class has added another stack to the media “misinformation” Matryoshka doll, and news media isn’t handling it well.
RENT has not held up
We should take it as a generational mission to rebel against rebellion for its own sake and eagerly embrace bourgeois, not bohemian, values.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Revisiting Elden Ring after Being Gone for a While
Did a patch nerf all of the monsters?
The Month in Theaters May 2024
So, the summer movie season has begun… With a whimper. I saw 14 in theaters, as well as nine otherwise, for a total of 23 reviews
Weekend Plans Post: Settling into the Summer
After a crazy four years of weird pandemic stuff, we’re still finding little things to claw back.
POETS Day! William Cowper
I can’t imagine anything more irrational than, when assured of eternal damnation, acting to immanentize that fate.
Safe Nerdy and the Early Adopter Problem
Take any franchise and make it “safe” for general audiences, which will inevitably lose the hardcore fans of said franchise.
My Favorite 80s Movies
The 80s was rich with pop culture, so I start with my favourite films from the decade that gave us Madonna, shoulder pads and Yuppies.
Music Monday: Metal Songs In Which The Singer Barks Like A Dog
At some point, for reasons no one can explain and few would even attempt to devine, the lead singer for a metal band barked. Barked like a dog.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Pikmin Bloom and Getting Your Steps In
If you have been having trouble getting in your steps, Pikmin Bloom can help. It helped me, anyway.
POETS Day! The Transcendent Shades Cahaba
It’s a great word so I wouldn’t blame her, but more time was spent on transcendental chapters of that text than any of the novels on the syllabus.
Weekend Plans Post: The La-Z-Boy
we found a La-Z-Boy that Maribou said felt exactly like Dad’s old chair did. And we found that it was part of a set of two identical chairs…full circle.
Why AI Could Be Good for the Liberal Arts
The time of artificial intelligence has arrived and only the timeless education of the liberal arts can face it.
97th Oscars Projections: The Post-Cannes Outlook For The Best Picture Race
The Cannes Film Festival has come and gone, providing us with a little bit more of a clearer picture on Oscars Projections
Waterloo: 50 Years Later
“Waterloo:” a premise so inane as to be borderline stupid, an uncredited musical lifting of a chorus, and a smash hit.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Elden Ring is going to be releasing DLC on June 21st
Apparently, the DLC is *HUGE*. “Bigger than Caelid” is one of the reports that I saw.
