The following is presented in tribute to the Major League game I saw yesterday. I’ve watched some winter programming on the MLB Network. This isn’t far off. A return to a preponderance of words in this space tomorrow. Or at least more than this. Continue reading Well, beat the drum and hold the phone – the sun came out today!
Though I had full intentions of sharing images from our trip to New Orleans in this space, a technical shortcoming has thwarted that plan. Instead, I’ll just briefly acknowledge that, due to our return trip to the Crescent City, I … Continue reading My memory is muddy, what’s this river that I’m in?
20. Bob Mould, Workbook To me, this album represents the beginning of summer. Online sources of reasonable repute list its release date as April 1989. That may very well be the case, but my memory of the album begins with … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, 20
I typically wax nostalgic in this weekly feature, spinning misty yarns about first encounters with certain songs or especially meaningful moments when a college radio favorite spoke to me most deeply. But I recognize that we’re living in an iTunes … Continue reading One for Friday: The Banana Splits, “In New Orleans”
Ten years ago today, I was standing in a mountain valley with my favorite person in the world. After we conversed privately, we signed some state-issued paperwork and we were obligated to check the “Married” box on relevant paperwork from there on in. Five years ago today, I was in New Orleans with my favorite person in the world. We’d just completely a hard week of work on houses that had been effectively destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. We were in a great restaurant, having a wonderful meal and toasting each other and the bruised, battered city that we loved. Today, … Continue reading It seems to me I’ve been here before, the sounds I heard and the sights I saw
#32 — Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981) No genre belongs so decisively and completely to the era of its greatest heyday like film noir. Even westerns, the exemplar of movie genres that evolved from ubiquitous to scarce, still work fine … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 80s — Number Thirty-Two
Given that Muppet-related videos make regular appearances at this humble little corner of the Web, it feels a little weird to refrain from embedding the trailer to the upcoming revival film, The Muppets. But then again, I did link to … Continue reading If you’re a human being, take a break from the race
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. Besides the comics that I selected for myself in my youthful years, I always had access to a few stray issues that came into my possession by mysterious means. Comic books were purchased a little more freely in the nineteen-seventies. They were available practically everywhere and were somewhat likely to be picked up as impulse buys by teenagers and college students just looking for a four-color distraction. I never found a … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Giant-Size Avengers #3 by Steve Englehart, Roy Thomas and Dave Cockrum
For months now, this space on Sundays has been devoted to counting down the top 90 albums of 1989 on the college radio station where I made my home. I decided fairly early on that I wanted to write the … Continue reading College Countdown: 90FM’s Top 90 of 1989, Interlude
This week, I finally starting working on the backlog of record reviews I need to work through by offering up an assessment of the new album by the U.K. band Let’s Wrestle. It was one of those tricky instances of having to write about something when my primary reaction to it is “Eh, it’s okay.” What’s actually harder is writing about a film that’s terrific. Invariably, I feel like my words are inadequate. Lu Chuan’s new movie is tough, uncompromising and beautifully made. I am pleased that I wrote the review without ever using the word “epic.” That was intentional. … Continue reading Spectrum Check
