Category: Arts & Entertainment
Tuesday Tune Twenty Twenty-foursome: What I Am
FOUR tangentially-related tunes on the theme of self-actualization for the New Year
Literacy 2023: Recap
Another year of failing to hit my target number, but being pretty happy about it nonetheless
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.
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
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
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Overkill
Two tangentially-related tunes on the theme of going harder than necessary
Literacy 2023: Book 16: The Theory of Everything Else
Dan Schreiber’s collection of fringe science, pseudoscience, and other crackpot ideas
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Eight Nights
Two tangentially-related tunes celebrating a vague idea of another culture’s holiday
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
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: It Was a Very Good Year
Two tangentially-related tunes that came out when I was 21
Peace & Love
In honor of Shane MacGowan’s passing, some thoughts about what a huge impact the Pogues had on me
