I wrote my first movie review on Letterboxd today. I’m re-posting it here, for posterity. This is my first review. It may be my only review. This will be rambling, deeply personal, may read as pretentious, and I apologize for none of it. But I did warn you. I can’t actually review this movie. I …
What happens when you hard-wire a society?
I saw bumper stickers like the title of this post for years and wondered, in the pre-internet era, what they meant. I believed it when I was told, “Oh, it’s a band. It’s an inside joke among the fans.” WTF? It wasn’t until my second trip to the Chinati Foundation, in Marfa, Texas, that it …
I think a lot of people are getting Ted Lasso wrong, especially when it comes to Nate…
Conversations overheard, and under-appreciated, at first, at the barber shop.
Part 1: From Hated to Hallowed Last month, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, my daughter was given a worksheet at school. It looked a lot like this one to the right, but with different content. The actual content of the worksheet was “Ways I can make the world a better place, just …
This is not going to be the blog post that wins me a Pulitzer (has that happened, I wonder? Ah, yes, sort of), but I keep having this thought, and I feel like it deserves to be “out there.” Two of my favorite television shows of recent times have been Orange Is The New Black …
So, as I sit here, it is November 14th, 2016. A portion of the United States, my homeland of all 38 years of my life, is beside themselves because of the decision our electoral college made just less than a week ago to elect Donald Trump president. I won’t go into my personal feelings in …