Saturday Morning Gaming: Fallout 76 Reviewed
I’ve played it enough to reach a tentative conclusion, I think. Fallout 76 puts the cart before the horse.
Category: Feature
POETS Day! Arnold on Dover, Hecht on Arnold
Matthew Arnold’s literary personage stands in contrast to his father’s upright example. And then it doesn’t. And then it does again.
Campus Insurrections?
It’s time to call out the fringes on both sides for the lawless demagogues that they are and embrace the sanity of the middle
Musical Complaints and Compliments about the Fallout 76 Radio Station
As I wander about the Appalachian Wasteland, I listen to a handful of original songs, some covers, and a DJ who encourages me to keep trying.
YouTube vs. The World
The case study of Screen Junkies Plus vs. the Mythical Society should be studied for how to capitalize on one’s YouTube audience, for good or ill.
Music Monday: A Great, If Flawed, Musical
This past Wednesday my wife and eldest son went into Boston to the Wang theater to catch a performance of Hadestown. I’m told it was excellent. While I haven’t had the in-theater, there is...
Saturday Morning Gaming: Fallout 76
I haven’t watched the Fallout series but my buddy did and he said “DUDE, WE NEED TO PLAY FALLOUT 76!!!” and I was hesitant because…
POETS Day! A Bit of Light Verse
What’s an otherwise famous dead English poet named Jonson to do when the Doctor hogs the name in such an un-Christian manner?
Time is Ticking for TikTok
While we disagree on the issue, my son did have a really good point. “If TikTok is so dangerous,” he said, “They should show the people why.”
Weekend Plans Post: The Three Body Problem
I understand that the Netflix version Americanizes the ever-living heck out of the story but, even so, I found myself charmed and confused and wanting to argue about what happens next.
Thursday Thoughput: Fixing Spacecraft Edition
Fixing spacecraft is astonishing work: debugging a fifty-year-old computer at a distance of 15 billion miles.
Free Speech, But No Freedom to Harass
Free speech has limits. The limit is often when one person’s freedom runs up against someone else’s rights.
The Shifting Politics of Abortion
The gripping hand with Trump and the politics of abortion is that he does not really care. And abortion will always be legal for the rich.
The Month in Theaters March 2024
I saw fourteen movies in theaters in the month of March, as well as five movies otherwise, for a total of nineteen reviews.
The Trump Tax
If you like Trump for his economic policies, you might want to spend some time reexamining the policies of his first term and how they damaged the economy.
On Cleaning Out My Writing Intake
If a culture war happens online and you don’t get sucked into the algorithmic vortex of it, did it make a sound?
POETS Day! Kingsley Amis with a Touch of Philip Larkin
I think Kingsley Amis is also showing us something sh**** and then showing us something he thinks is sh****ier. He’s making a point.
Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Play
I’m cooking up a throughput linkorama for next week. But for now, here’s some videos I’ve dropped recently.
The Zinky Boys: Russia in Afghanistan and Ukraine
Putin’s government is as morally bankrupt as the Soviet communists who sent young Russians off to die for a lie in the 1980s.
