Trivia Answer of the Day — The Breakdown
This coming weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. As per tradition, this week is filled with idle reminiscing about memorable answers in past years. This time around, I’m focusing answers on the supplemental “Unplugged” version of the … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day — The Breakdown
Trivia Answer of the Day — Steve Rogers
This coming weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. As per tradition, this week is filled with idle reminiscing about memorable answers in past years. This time around, I’m focusing answers on the supplemental “Unplugged” version of the … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day — Steve Rogers
Trivia Answer of the Day — Pittsburgh
This coming weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. As per tradition, this week is filled with idle reminiscing about memorable answers in past years. This time around, I’m focusing answers on the supplemental “Unplugged” version of the … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day — Pittsburgh
Trivia Answer of the Day — TV Guide
This coming weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. As per tradition, this week is filled with idle reminiscing about memorable answers in past years. This time around, I’m focusing answers on the supplemental “Unplugged” version of the … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day — TV Guide
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #948 to #945
948. Fishbone, Fishbone (1985) “Party at Ground Zero” stands as one of the greatest opening declarations of artistic identity in all of college rock. It’s probably not wholly correct to assert that no one sounded like Fishbone before the Los … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #948 to #945
From the Archive — The Badger
This was written for my former online home, back when I was devoting the end of the working week to a feature dubbed “Flashback Fridays,” giving myself the prompt of a year to get me tapping keys on a range … Continue reading From the Archive — The Badger
One for Friday — Kristin Allen-Zito,”Cup of Love”
I’ve long had a particular weakness for performers who simply pick up an acoustic guitar and make greatness happen. It likely stems from my obviously mistaken notion of the outcome awaiting me had I the same skill. More than that, … Continue reading One for Friday — Kristin Allen-Zito,”Cup of Love”
The New Releases Shelf — Historian
Record albums aren’t novels. They aren’t films or plays or anything else that needs to follow the rules of traditional — or, for that matter, highly non-traditional — narratives. There is zero necessity for a compelling thesis statement or a … Continue reading The New Releases Shelf — Historian
Playing Catch-Up — A United Kingdom; Downsizing; Girls Trip
A United Kingdom (Amma Asante, 2016). It’s almost jarring to see a modern movie as staid in its dramatization of noble societal perseverance as A United Kingdom. Based on real history, the film follows the heartbreaking travails of Seretse Khama … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — A United Kingdom; Downsizing; Girls Trip
Now Playing — Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg is the dream director for the film adaptation of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One. He’s also arguably a terrible choice for the near-future cotton candy dystopia of a puzzle quest across a virtual landscape of pop culture … Continue reading Now Playing — Ready Player One
Coffee for Two 