Outside Reading — Once More Around the Park edition
I’ve written abut Roger Angell before, inadequately. Dumbstruck with administration when considering the legendary writer’s prose, how could my words be anything other than inadequate? I stood before a monolith with a handful of scuffed dominos. On the occasion of … Continue reading Outside Reading — Once More Around the Park edition
Laughing Matters — George Carlin, “A Place for My Stuff”
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. I’ve been thinking a … Continue reading Laughing Matters — George Carlin, “A Place for My Stuff”
Then Playing — The Hard Way; The Lady Gambles; Leave No Trace
The Hard Way (Vincent Sherman, 1943). This drama about a young woman named Katie (Joan Leslie) making her way in the ruthless world of showbiz has some real grit to it, distinguishing a storyline that otherwise hits familiar beats. It … Continue reading Then Playing — The Hard Way; The Lady Gambles; Leave No Trace
Outside Reading — Saint George edition
The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin by Dave Itzkoff I think I’ve made my appreciation for the work of George Carlin abundant clear around this here digital place. Plenty of other people dogging cars out there on the superhighway feel … Continue reading Outside Reading — Saint George edition
Beers I Have Known — District 1 Brewing Company Pointer: Then and Now
This series of posts is dedicated to the many, many six packs, pony kegs and pints that have sauntered into my life at one point or another. Thanks to the miracles and the wonder of digital conduits for broadcast technologies, … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — District 1 Brewing Company Pointer: Then and Now
Now Playing — Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
It’s been a little more than five years since Marvel’s master of the mystic arts took center frame in a film bearing his name. He’s hardly been absent in that span. Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) has been the Billie … Continue reading Now Playing — Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
My Misspent Youth — The New Teen Titans #4 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. What George Pérez really wanted to do was draw the Justice … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — The New Teen Titans #4 by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #200 to #198
200. Los Lobos, By the Light of the Moon (1987) “We were trying to take it somewhere else — a step further or something, just to not repeat what we’d done,” David Hidalgo, guitarist and vocalist of Los Lobos, later … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #200 to #198
Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
It’s been a rough, infuriating, disheartening week. There are a multitude of individuals far more qualified than me to explain why, so I will cede my digital floor to a few of them. Fuck You, I’m Done by Jessica Valenti … Continue reading Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
This Week’s Model — Sunflower Bean, “In Flight”
This is exactly the sort of breezy melancholy I’m looking for in my summer jams. Set against a shuffling indie-rock rhythm and lithe synth and guitars, the track expresses that sense of stasis that twentysomething scufflers have been humming about … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sunflower Bean, “In Flight”
Coffee for Two 