Now Playing — Spider-Man: Far From Home
It has been a mere three years since Tom Holland took his first swings as Spider-Man, bringing the character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe proper in Captain America: Civil War. It seems as though the young English thespian has been … Continue reading Now Playing — Spider-Man: Far From Home
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #692 to #689
692. Go-Betweens, Tallulah (1987) Tallulah might not have delivered the Go-Betweens their first experience with professional disappointment, nor even their most pronounced. And yet the recording experience and subsequent related duties were peppered with enough frustrations that the album stands … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #692 to #689
Outside Reading — Life, Liberty, Etc. edition
Meet the people fighting for health care access for disabled kids detained at the border by s.e. smith The grotesque immorality and abject cruelty currently being perpetrated against human beings attempting to immigrate into the U.S. — most of them … Continue reading Outside Reading — Life, Liberty, Etc. edition
This Week’s Model — Long Beard, “Sweetheart”
Long Beard is the performing moniker employed by singer-songwriter Leslie Bear, whose 2015 debut album, Sleepwalker, stirred up admiring interest from music fans inclined towards the wistful. Recently relocated from Canada to her native New Jersey, bear acknowledges her songwriting … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Long Beard, “Sweetheart”
Laughing Matters — Mad Magazine
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. By the time I … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Mad Magazine
Playing Catch-Up — High Life; The Long, Hot Summer; The Hate U Give
High Life (Claire Denis, 2019). For her English-language debut, French director Claire Denis doesn’t play it safe. High Life is a science fiction film about a small group on a shoebox-shaped spaceship that has an exterior vaguely resembling a wood … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — High Life; The Long, Hot Summer; The Hate U Give
My Misspent Youth — Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane
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. When I look back at the seismic events in the comic … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane
My Writers — Colson Whitehead
I can’t pinpoint the precise moment when I became completely enamored with Colson Whitehead’s writing, but I’m fairly certain it happened in New Orleans. I was there for a relief trip in 2006, less than one year after Hurricane Katrina … Continue reading My Writers — Colson Whitehead
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #696 to #693
696. Dan Fogelberg, The Innocent Age (1981) There was a point when music artists of a certain stature couldn’t simply release a new record. An extra level of import was required, and so singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg followed his greatest commercial … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #696 to #693
Outside Reading — The Right Thing edition
Megan Rapinoe Cannot Make This Any Clearer by Barry Petchesky This piece was written and published before Megan Rapinoe scored two goals to lift the U.S. women’s national team past their French rivals in the World Cup quarterfinals, cementing her status … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Right Thing edition
Coffee for Two 