Recommendation: Halo Headband
While cycling, there have been a couple of occasions where I’m overwhelmed by sweat. Not every time, and not even that often – I’m a cooler weather type, as you… Read more »
Category: Reviews
The Daily: 31 August. Who replaces me?
I recently recommended the NY Times podcast, The Daily, and I still do. They tell stories, some more important than others, but all quite interesting, and all pretty much right… Read more »
Didion and Self-Respect
I’m really getting into the writings of Joan Didion, and I’d started a piece that was inspired from a short segment of her 1961 Vogue piece “Self-Respect: Its Source, Its… Read more »
In the meantime, a recommendation…
Well, I honestly thought I was saving that writing I was working on, and I certainly hope I can find it somewhere, but until then let me at least recommend… Read more »
Joan Didion (On Writing Well, part III?)
If you went back to the very first post I made on this blog a few months ago, you’d see a certain methodology at work in my reading – the… Read more »
An Obscure (Perhaps) Recommendation
I just finished watching one of the greatest movies ever made for the umpteenth time. Of course, I’m talking about the Stephen Chow masterpiece, Kung Fu Hustle. I say “of… Read more »
It’s official.
Yup. It’s official. I don’t know what prompted viewers to continue watching Showtime’s Homeland, but the second season bounce I was hoping might happen just didn’t materialize. And it isn’t… Read more »
Grandaddy, Sumday
It seems that all I’m doing these days is finding music, but you should know that there are sometimes rabbit holes that continue to produce their rabbits. This particular case… Read more »
While I’m at it…
Well, since I’ve told you Steely Dan’s best song (“Aja”) and Supertramp’s best of many (“Asylum” if you missed it yesterday, although that post was more about the best album),… Read more »
…of the Century
If you’ve read previously, you know I post about music on occasion. But to tell you the truth I have never really settled on much when it comes to what… Read more »