Month: December 2020
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A Few Good Things from my 2020
Choosing a few bright spots from a miserable year
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Semi-New Song Sunday: Royal Blood
You really can’t go wrong with straightforward rock music from someone who knows how to write a good hook.
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The Thing to Say (and Drink)
Merry Christmas from as close as I can get to the tropics sitting here on my couch
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So Many Bobas, or, Why Frog Lady Is So Important To The Mandalorian
More speculation on how the new Boba Fett series fits into Disney+ Star Wars programming, and how The Mandalorian looks without Baby Yoda
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Tuesday Tune Two-fer: I’ll Be Woke for Christmas
If you don’t agree with me about these songs celebrating a season of peace and unity, you’re wrong and dumb. Merry Christmas!
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The Mandalorian: The Book of Din Djarin
The Season 2 finale of The Mandalorian, “The Rescue,” once again reminds me of how I felt watching the original movies
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Semi-New Song Sunday: Kasabian
My awareness of the rock band Kasabian has been brief but meaningful.
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The M1 MacBook Pro (and other computers I have loved)
The 13″ M1 MacBook Pro is the first perfect laptop I’ve used in years, and it’s actually changing how I think about personal computers.
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Spoiler Warning: Human Beings Continue to Disappoint
When I first heard that Disney+ was going to release its original series as real series, meaning waiting a week between episodes instead of dumping an entire season online at once, I was very happy to hear it. The Netflix model makes sense for what they’re trying to do — be a repository for hours…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Stupid Pet Tricks
How people raised on 80s TV can’t reliably distinguish between real and fake, and why it’s even worse now.
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Now That’s What I Call Music
Two tangentially related tunes each Tuesday. This week’s theme: two bands I maybe haven’t given enough credit to.