I actually finished Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle, which I had been seriously anticipating for a while. People who were also fans told me it was something of a disappointment, and actually a chore to get through. This proved to be right: I watched the season in shortish binges and the whole… Read More Not-So-Quick Review: The Man in the High Castle and the Gotcha Problem
What is this movie about? This was the question Wifey and I asked each other after viewing it. Ostensibly, it’s about a great many things, as a great many things were involved with the life of Mary Queen of Scots, the last Catholic monarch of Scotland (you might say, the last monarch of Scotland, period,… Read More Quick Review: Mary Queen of Scots
And to all a good day.
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing that they like. A Man With No Business, Killing Time When my car is in the shop They tell me “an hour and A half.” So I have fish tacos and Salad and a pint that Lingers around the temples Tightening… Read More Sample From “The Short Cool Summer”
The actual title of the piece at the Poetry Foundation, “The Warmth of the Messy Page“, is better. No matter what your approach, engaging in revision will help you see your work more clearly and help you discover more of what you meant and sometimes what you didn’t even know you meant. The word itself… Read More How To Write and Edit Poetry
So Sayeth Variety: Another option being tossed around is not having any host at all, but rather “a bunch of huge celebs, something ‘SNL’ style, and buzzy people” to keep the show moving, the insiders said. A stunt like a group monologue was floated, one source added. What’s interesting, aside from the nap I’m going to… Read More And Now The Oscars Might Have No Host At All…
… it’s not actually about Alexander the Great, but some nonsense tertially related to Alexander the Great. Normally I like Crash Course, because it doesn’t take itself too seriously and usually provides some kind of interesting take on historical events. But this one is trying so hard to be Woke that it ends up saying… Read More This Crash Course is the Last Christmas of Alexander the Great YouTube Videos…
So here’s how the Kevin Hart thing went down: The Academy (whoever they are) offers a comedian a job being meh funny for a few hours while pretty people in gowns walk across the stage to announce other pretty people in gowns and then give each other shiny statues. Activists on Twitter (whoever they are) digs… Read More Do the Oscars Really Need a Host?
Over the course of that rainy muddy monsoon that was the summer of 2018, I wrote some poems, cheap, messy, quick, and therefore true. I consider it an expression of this idea I call Suburban Zen, which I have not fully defined. It’s closer to Zen that way. It’s a Kindle-exclusive, and it’s 99 cents. You… Read More New Summer Poetry
