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. The past few days … Continue reading Laughing Matters — The Critic
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Michael Dougherty, 2019). By now, Hollywood has offered up a mountain of evidence of their collective inability to do right by the fire-breathing behemoth first brought to the screen by Toho Studios and director Ishirō … Continue reading Then Playing — Godzilla: King of the Monsters; The Hustle; The Dead Don’t Die
#44 — The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) The path always led to The Shape of Water for Guillermo del Toro. Across a career that begin firmly in the horror genre before expanding to other hybrids, practically of … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Four
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. By happenstance, I was already scheduled to sit in the air chair at my college radio alma … Continue reading Radio Days — Then and Now: March 15, 2020
548. Hunters & Collectors, Fate (1988) I.R.S. Records had the Australian band Hunters & Collectors under contract for U.S., but the label executives didn’t particularly like how, well, Australian the band sounded. The band released their fifth studio album, What’s … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #548 to #545
The Dismantled State Takes on a Pandemic by Alex Parnee Writing for The New Republic, Alex Parnee addresses the clumsy ineptitude of the U.S. executive branch at this moment and correctly points out it is the logical outcome of around … Continue reading Outside Reading — Closed edition
Now that Margo Price has moved on from Third Man Records, it’s evidently time for her to make some music that sounds like it would have been snugly at home on Jack White’s Nashville-based label. For the lead single from … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Margo Price, “Twinkle Twinkle”
#45 — Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, 2010) Martin Scorsese didn’t owe us any more high art. That was clear. By the time the calendar flipped over to the twenty-tens, Scorsese had already amassed forty years of astonishing accomplishment, and he … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 10s — Number Forty-Five
The swirl of today has prevented me from stringing together pithy words (or words that aspire to pithiness, anyway). Maybe more than that, piping off on some odd slice of pop culture feels a little off to me. So I … Continue reading Programming Note
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. Many times, I have found myself lured into decadent decisions by a beer … Continue reading Beers I Have Known — Octopi Brewing Barrel-Aged S’mores Stout
Coffee for Two 