True...but she keeps doing it.  If that isn’t sinister, I don’t know what is.  Is there such a thing as Egg Jail?  We’ve got her dead to rights on that one.

I lived in South Korea for 6 years, and the one time I got my hands on salted butter (from ‘French Tesco’ Carre Four), it was so salty I had to throw it away.  After a few years back in the US, where unsalted is a bit more rare, I bought some Kerrygold Unsalted, and loved its richness while being overwhelmed by the…

The Snowy Day was my first favorite book. I think my kindergarten teacher(Miss Lodge) read it to us right after it had won the Caldecott Medal (yes, I’m old), and I bugged my mother until she took me to the library to check it out. A book I’d add is Andrew Henry’s Meadow. It’s about a group of kids that run away to…

I liked it. However, I wasn’t watching it as some sort of scathing takedown of Disney and our consumer culture. I saw it as chronicling one man’s descent into paranoid madness. After a certain point, none of what happens in the film can be trusted as being based in any sort of objective reality, as the hapless,…

If it’s just marketing, I don’t like it. But Keith Reid wrote the lyrics for Procol Harum and was considered a part of the band. And the fact is that The Dead wouldn’t have been the same without the input of Hunter. So, if they serve a purpose, I don’t have a problem with it. (And yes, to me, that purpose does include…

And the Professor’s mentor back in his college days?  Dr. Moreau.

Also, New Belgium Brewing (Fat Tire) has released ‘The Hemperor HPA’, an IPA-style hoppy brew infused with hemp. Not sure about CBD, but there’s no THC.  I checked.

Not to mention the ACA.  My conservative family and friends accuse me of hyperbole when I say ‘the GOP wants to kill me.’  But it’s true.

Lists like these never catch everything.  My personal favorite release this year has been “Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed Meets the High and Mighty Brass Band.’  It’s a blue-eyed soul album that could have been released in 1964, yet still sounds fresh.  His voice has a pure joy to it that is hard to find in any genre these…

With everything else going on, this is confirmation that good things can still happen in this world. While Ray and Dave have both done solo projects that are fine (particularly Ray’s album Working Man’s Cafe), they’re better when they’ve got that brotherly friction going.

I’m going to throw Donald Sutherland out there—consistently one of the best, most interesting actors of the 70s and early 80s. Then he seemed to realize he can make a lot of money for extended cameos to add ‘class’ to a project. He remained capable of greatness (6 Degrees of Separation comes to mind), but he spends…

I know this probably won’t be seen, but I’m just going to throw Barenaked Ladies out there. In their 25-year career, they’ve never been anything above a B+, and their last few records before Steven Page left are well below that mark. (Their newer ones are B+ all the way.)

I’ve read so many analyses of Solo’s ‘failure’ at the box office that specifically state that none of it was due to Star Wars Fatigue. Well, I didn’t go to see it for that very reason. I have Star Wars Fatigue.

Right now, Perfect’s ‘Miss Self-Esteem’ is playing on shuffle...but the car has been all about Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed for the last week or so. The man channels 60's soul without sounding derivative, which is a tough high-wire act to maintain.

I’ve admired Rachel Bloom since her ‘F—k Me, Ray Bradbury’ days (she even responded to a youtube comment I made!), and it’s great to see her handling this situation with such poise and class. As far as NPH goes, I agree with her sentiment, which really boils down to ‘think before you speak, dude.’

I’m 50 years old and have, among other things, HIV, high blood pressure, and major depression. I recently was allowed the opportunity to ‘resign’ my most recent teaching job and the end of my first year because I’m ‘not a good fit.’ Test scores, evaluations, and other metrics don’t support that. So, the only…

This is one of the most frightening things I’ve ever seen. If either of the Koreas had made it, or even some domestic conservative group, I could laugh it off. But this is official propaganda straight from the Trump White House. Funded by taxpayer dollars. Scary as hell. PLEASE vote Dem in November. I don’t care if…

“Frito Pie” is perfect for camping—bed of Fritos, ladle of canned chili (Wolf’s for me), onions (if you feel like chopping one), pickled jalepenos, cheese on top. You might want to put the cheese atop the Fritos and under the chili to ensure melting.

The best tracking shot I’ve ever seen is the opening of Robert Altman’s Hollywood satire The Player. It’s a seven minute shot that roams around the office area of the studio in the film. It does an insane amount of worldbuilding and also jumpstarts the plot at the same time. No editing. (Personally, ‘long-take’ shots…

Please don’t sully the Avengers by associating them with Trump. I see him as a more of a Spongebob guy. ‘Look at that guy! He’s a sponge! I have sponges that are so much bigger than that.’