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  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Where Do I Begin
    Tuesday, August 12, 2025

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Where Do I Begin

    Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tangentially-related tunes about trying to get started

  • Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
    Monday, August 11, 2025

    Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll

    Books, Literacy 2025

    Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY

  • Movie List Monday: Oh, So That’s Why We Have Movies
    Monday, August 11, 2025

    Movie List Monday: Oh, So That’s Why We Have Movies

    Movie List Monday

    A list of movies with scenes that taught me why the medium exists in the first place

  • One Thing I Like About Weapons
    Saturday, August 9, 2025

    One Thing I Like About Weapons

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)

  • The Tragedy of the Slop
    Friday, August 8, 2025

    The Tragedy of the Slop

    Technology

    Even with billions of dollars of investment, the miraculous thinking machines can’t answer the simple question “Why can’t we have nice things?”

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together
    Tuesday, August 5, 2025

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together

    Movies, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes that might be appropriate replacement songs for the movie Together, should the need arise

  • Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)
    Sunday, August 3, 2025

    Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)

  • One Thing I Like About Together
    Friday, August 1, 2025

    One Thing I Like About Together

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments


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One Thing I Like

  • One Thing I Like About Weapons
    Saturday, August 9, 2025

    One Thing I Like About Weapons

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Weapons is so ingeniously structured and so confident in its tone that it feels like something genuinely new. (Spoilers)

  • Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)
    Sunday, August 3, 2025

    Space Bullies Aren’t Cool (One Thing I Like About Predator: Killer of Killers)

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Predator: Killer of Killers is a beautifully-animated action movie that challenges my basic sense of media literacy. (Minor spoilers)

  • One Thing I Like About Together
    Friday, August 1, 2025

    One Thing I Like About Together

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    The body-horror-as-metaphor-for-codependency movie Together isn’t as bonkers as I’d hoped, but it does some fantastic stuff with familiar horror movie moments


More Posts in “One Thing I Like”

Tuesday Tune Two-Fer

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Where Do I Begin
    Tuesday, August 12, 2025

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Where Do I Begin

    Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tangentially-related tunes about trying to get started

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together
    Tuesday, August 5, 2025

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Happier Together

    Movies, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes that might be appropriate replacement songs for the movie Together, should the need arise

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Fantastic Foursome
    Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Fantastic Foursome

    Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    A couple of space-age tracks from Michael Giacchino and a couple of John Williams tracks that (I think) inspired him


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Books

  • Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
    Monday, August 11, 2025

    Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll

    Books, Literacy 2025

    Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY

  • Literacy 2025: Book 22: The Last Devil To Die
    Tuesday, July 1, 2025

    Literacy 2025: Book 22: The Last Devil To Die

    Books, Literacy 2025

    Richard Osman’s culmination of the cozy mystery series The Thursday Murder Club

  • Literacy 2025: Book 21: William
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025

    Literacy 2025: Book 21: William

    Books, Literacy 2025

    Mason Coile’s short novel about a haunted smart house and the possibly possessed robot living in its attic


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