Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Literacy 2023: Recap
Another year of failing to hit my target number, but being pretty happy about it nonetheless
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Literacy 2023: Book 18: Shadow of the Sith
An interim Star Wars story in which Luke and Lando try to protect Rey’s family from a sinister Sith plot.
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One Thing I Love About Wonka
My favorite thing about Wonka is how it effectively chooses songs from the original, and then goes off to do its own thing
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Literacy 2023: Book 17: The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman’s cozy crime story about a group of residents of a retirement community solving a “real” murder
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Overkill
Two tangentially-related tunes on the theme of going harder than necessary
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Literacy 2023: Book 16: The Theory of Everything Else
Dan Schreiber’s collection of fringe science, pseudoscience, and other crackpot ideas
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Eight Nights
Two tangentially-related tunes celebrating a vague idea of another culture’s holiday
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Literacy 2023: Book 15: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The first Hercule Poirot mystery is essentially a template for everything we expect from an Agatha Christie murder mystery
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: It Was a Very Good Year
Two tangentially-related tunes that came out when I was 21
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Peace & Love
In honor of Shane MacGowan’s passing, some thoughts about what a huge impact the Pogues had on me
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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Move Fast and Break Down
Two tangentially-related tunes to listen to while waiting for Silicon Valley to collapse