"A Watcher scoffs at gravity!"

I had a much greater appreciation of the character and play when I learned that it was a twist on the morality plays of the time. In those, the character Everyman was tempted by Vices (The World, The Flesh, and The Devil) before choosing a Godly life, as sort of . This play turns it on the head, where Richard III…

That album was probably the first time I realized that rap is/could be a mental and artistic exercise. The process of drafting and revision never sounded so gangsta.

"The Loneliness of the Military Historian" is probably in my top 10. …. screw it, imma gonna post it no matter how long it is:

Let me die a youngman's death
not a clean and inbetween
the sheets holywater death
not a famous-last-words
peaceful out of breath death

Oooh, is this the sexy poem thread?

Seriously. I totally read the title as Ethel Merman for a half-second and got really excited. <sigh> At least I had an Airplane! flashback.

It's because clams, along with oysters and mussels, are filter feeders. They thus tend to have a positive impact on the waters of bays and estuaries. Some of the types of harvesting, such as hydraulic dredging, can damage seafloor bottoms, but even so the net impact tends to be much much better than other types of…

The mention of Piers Anthony reminded me of how much I loved, and read the hell out of, that guy's books, only to realize later how much of a hack and misogynist he is. He's probably worth a Memory Wipe by himself.

If I've been saying since the late 90s that Jackie Brown is probably the best Tarantino film, does that mean that I get to be a retroactive hipster even though I don't have a beard and ironic tshirt? Yay!

If I've been saying since the late 90s that Jackie Brown is probably the best Tarantino film, does that mean that I get to be a retroactive hipster even though I don't have a beard and ironic tshirt? Yay!

Some more from the past 20 years that are on my holiday playlist:

Some more from the past 20 years that are on my holiday playlist:

Whoever thought that a game of badminton could be heartbreaking? I don't think I breathed during that scene. What an unexpectedly great film.

Whoever thought that a game of badminton could be heartbreaking? I don't think I breathed during that scene. What an unexpectedly great film.

And the payoff - when the celebrating crowd goes silent one by one and stares, and he slinks back into the closet. I'm LOLing just writing about it. That may be the funniest thing I've seen in a movie that didn't involve Mel Brooks.

And the payoff - when the celebrating crowd goes silent one by one and stares, and he slinks back into the closet. I'm LOLing just writing about it. That may be the funniest thing I've seen in a movie that didn't involve Mel Brooks.

He'll save every one of us!

He'll save every one of us!

I think The House (58 seconds long!) may be the apex of social commentary in hip hop. The word images are amazing.