Hey, it’s been awhile since my last proper book review, or rather since I rewrote the entire Dark Tower series. I just read that shit again and it holds all the way up—you’re welcome! A few times this month (including today, for another couple of hours), noted lawyer/“sportswriter” Mike Florio has generously subtracted the full […]
The game: Patriots at Titans The beer: Liars Bench Pair of Pennies Czech Amber Lager The result: Win, 31–13 The record: 5–2 The headline: “Treason! Treason! The spectre looms again!” – Rainbow, “Kill the King” The commentary: “Kill the king,” you ask? I’m just riffing on my old Nashville Kings bit and celebrating G’s embrace […]
Two books at the same time: “Do you see yourself as a leader?” Week one The game: Raiders at Patriots The beer: Ipswich Vienna Lager The result: Loss, 20–13 The record: 0–1 The headline: “Meet me in the bottom, bring me my running shoes!” – Howlin’ Wolf, “Down in the Bottom” The commentary: Are you […]
It’s the Republicans, stupid: “What bothers you and why?” “This might be a June thing from now on.” Riiight. Remember when the blather published in the second half of May? Oh well, it’s not as if various current environments are changing on a daily goddamn basis. July is the new black and so is malaise. […]
Continuing, for some reason, an effort to chronicle every book I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings in the spring of 2017. This serves as an extension of my participation in what I labeled the Old Lady Book Club. Part 1 (2017) | Part 2 (2018) | Part 3 (2019) | Part 4 (2020) | Part 5 (2021) | Part 6 (2022) | Part 7 (2023) | “Selected […]
I’ve been an active blog-maker since August 5, 2005, initially at Blogger squaring off Biff! Bang! Pow! (Vol. 1) for fifteen years. My lead post, which likely took a month to write and another few days to publish, is an explanation to no one about why I was posting at all: So I’m a blogger […]
Read Which Way to Mecca, Jack? for a third time.
Boom goes the cannon: “List three books that have had an impact on you and why” Days-old daily prompt? Week-late Volume 16? It must be an election year! Two apostrophe-S authors drove much of the playlist this year. Joe Banks’s Hawkwind: Days of the Underground—Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia provides a sub-subtitle for our […]
So far in 2024 I’ve completed five books, which (according to Goodreads math) puts me two ahead of schedule toward a goal of forty-five. (Technically, I started Melissa Maerz’s five-star—of course—Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused at the end of December.) I sometimes read two at a time, pairing […]
Resurrecting, for some reason, an effort to chronicle every book I’ve read since The Lord of the Rings in the spring of 2017. This serves as an extension of my participation in what I labeled the Old Lady Book Club. Part 1 (2017) | Part 2 (2018) | Part 3 (2019) | Part 4 (2020) | Part 5 (2021) | Part 6 (2022) | “Selected readings from […]
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