The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Decided it was time to open the blog back up, since I do have a job now. On the agenda: finishing up the Movies You Might Have Missed (I didn't write the last 4 after getting laid off last year), writing some more about baseball (been to a few games this year so far), adding … Continue reading I’m Back
Joseph made a post titled Dizzy With Nostalgia on his blog and commented on the failure of people in the (forgive me for any inaccurate description; it was never my scene) communist/socialist/anarchist/environmentalist/? underground scene to fully reflect on their past efforts. This isn't really a comment on that, but some reflections it engendered on the … Continue reading Hipsters and Prodigal Sons
A minor housekeeping note; I've shifted the list of movie recommendations (Movies You Might Have Missed) from the left side of the blog to its own page and the link is at the top along with the beer list link.
I started to write about one of my favorite comics, Broodhollow. The problem was, I started discussing what had happened to try getting a handle on what I thought about the potential future of the strip and it quickly ballooned into an enormous post with an attempt on my part to reconstruct the timeline since … Continue reading A Return to Broodhollow
It shouldn't bother me like it does, but I'm quite annoyed about losing a couple of the short essays I've written for future installments of Movies You Might Have Missed. I've been writing them ahead and am getting close to having the full year completed.On the one hand, they're fairly easily replaceable and I won't … Continue reading Lost Words
If you had told me 20 or 25 years ago that eventually I would have a Valentine's Day celebration consisting of cooking steak and roasted potatoes after the kids were in bed and then eating them mostly in silence with my wife; the both of us wearing very casual athletic clothes (sweats, shorts, t-shirt, etc). … Continue reading Minor Key Valentine’s Day
Turns out I watched a lot of movies last year. I'm fairly confident that it was more than I usually watch in a year, but since I've never kept track before, I can't say that with confidence. I do know that I read a lot fewer books than once was customary. The effort I made … Continue reading Movies in 2017
I've updated the beer list linked at the top of the blog. But I've hit a wall, to a degree. I don't want to set myself up as some sort of beer expert, because I most certainly am not. But at this point there aren't many styles of beer I haven't tried. (Most of them … Continue reading Beer and the Search for Novelty
I deleted my Twitter account.Again.It was only in retrospect that I realized the timing coming so close on the heels of having met @educatedwhinge in person might have left a false impression. The actual reason was that I kept being unreasonably angry at things that I ought to have been able to laugh off. People … Continue reading Twitter
No one bothers to read any of this nonsense, I'm fairly sure, but my sense of the fitness of things was troubled when I realized that I'd never bothered to test the feedback box I'd added to replace comments. So I filled it out myself. We'll see if the message actually goes anywhere or if … Continue reading Feedback
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