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John Wick

Frequent readers may have noticed that my current workload has compelled me to keep recent posts on the shorter side. But I thought you good folks deserved some red meat. So I've made time to review the neo-noir stylistic sensation John Wick. I revisited this series recently. And with nigh…
March 2, 20239 Comments
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Get a Life

One unintended consequence of internet search algorithms' increasing uselessness for finding what you want is sometimes finding what you didn't know you wanted. For instance, the other day I was wrestling with YouTube in search of some obscure clip I was looking for. Instead, YT's search engine spat out some…
February 20, 20237 Comments
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Watterson’s Return

Almost thirty years after retiring his beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, artist Bill Watterson returns with a strange new project. The Mysteries is a new 72-page book by Watterson and fellow artist John Kascht are creating what is described as "a fable for grown-ups." Scheduled to be published by…
February 15, 20232 Comments
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The Price of Fun

A frequent complaint you hear from gamers these days is the rising cost of games - especially when you factor in the scummy DLC and games-as-service models. But a running theme of this blog is putting current events in historical perspective. So it must be asked: Are video games that…
February 10, 202314 Comments
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King

Like the lengthening of the days signals spring is around the corner, the seasonal uptick in football interest means the Super Bowl is coming up. This blog doesn't ordinarily cover sports. The national leagues - in particular the NFL - have degraded into vehicles for our rulers' hatred of white…
February 6, 202315 Comments
Star Trek Insurrection

Star Trek: Insurrection

It's been quite a ride, but our Star Trek film franchise retrospective has finally arrived at the first post-Ground Zero Trek movie. After the crowd-pleasing tour de force of Star Trek: First Contact, fans were looking forward to the TNG crew's second solo feature. Expectations ran high. And why shouldn't…
January 27, 202310 Comments
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How to Butter

Dead Internet search algorithms have reportedly made my post on how to make popcorn hard to find. Re-sharing it on Twitter kicked off a series of cooking discussions, which led to the subject of butter itself. Note: I do not use, nor do I recommend you use, butter on popcorn.…
January 26, 20232 Comments
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Star Trek: First Contact

Our retrospective on the Star Trek film franchise left off on the installment that officially handed the keys to the Next Generation crew. Though a general audience pleaser upon release, Star Trek: Generations has since acquired a reputation as a mixed bag of good visuals marred by character mishandling and…
January 20, 202311 Comments
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The Gen Y – Millennial Gap

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I don’t quite know what to say. I’m a millennial, and one who has hardly heard a song from the 80s (That I was aware of) but when I heard that last song on your list I felt… Something. It wasn’t nostalgia, it was……
January 17, 20239 Comments
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80s Not 80s

One strange aftereffect of Cultural Ground Zero has been the rise of the retrowave musical aesthetic. Like the PulpRev in fiction, this movement doesn't so much embrace a genre as an earlier state of the art - in retrowave's case, the 1980s. To a member of Generation Y, the phenomenon…
January 16, 202334 Comments