The Sopranos
I would like everyone to watch this show. I know not everyone is able to handle its violence, sex, language, darkness, brutality, passion, rawness, and food plethora, but I wish everyone could, because this show is a masterpiece.
(Heather, I’ve thought about it. This show may or may not be for you, but I don’t think you’ll be for it.)
I [...]
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1 Dec
The End of the Top Ten
27 Nov
That it’s Friday just means I don’t need the Federal Government dictating when I’m allowed to be thankful.
I’m thankful for books. I would not be where I am today without books. I love movies, I crave movies, I need movies, I want to make movies. But books are who I am.
I’m thankful for pumpkin pie for breakfast.
I’m thankful for friends with whom I can discuss anything. I mean, topics I’d not even [...]
22 Nov
Today I’m Reading . . .
Things That Need to Die
In Defiance of the Support Act (ie concert opening acts)
Another History of Violence
Do You Cry at Bad Movies Too?
13 Nov
Peeve Threeve (TM)
Insurance.
in-shur-ən(t)s also in-. Function: noun. Def: A scam with a long pedigree of government complication and interference, made necessary by avarice, stupidity and greed.
I cannot explain to you, without the aid of facial expression and hand gestures,* how frustrated, angry, and downright disgusted I am with the whole system. What was once an unnecessary commodity is not only essential, [...]
13 Nov
A Success All Around
I attended a harp recital tonight, with some of the best harp-recital-attending company possible.
RA was great. To work that hard, that long, that persistently, to understand and wrestle and conquer . . . HARP.
I don’t fully comprehend. But I fully appreciate. Tonight, my hat is off, my glass is raised.
And my stomach is full of peanut [...]
11 Nov
Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everybody Knows Everything About You And Loves You Anyways
Ross: Hypothetically speaking . . .
Joey: Wait, you just lost me.
The main point of this series of posts (Top Ten TV) has been to point you towards shows you may not have seen. But I honestly can’t imagine anyone in my generation – which I think you all are, gentle readers, or at least I [...]
3 Nov
up&coming
The last two entries in the TV Top Ten are coming. Really. Soon.
I’ve been a little sidetracked this past week, what with not getting anything productive accomplished and all. Well, that’s not quite true. I started some projects, cleaned and disinfected my house, began another behemoth of a book . . . but the projects [...]
29 Oct
Mini-Reviews
As changes the weather, so alter my listening habits. The weather is cold going on icy, meaning more and more I’m driving to work. Also, I’m making what is turning into a weekly jaunt to Madison. Driving means car. Car means CDs.
Not just any CDs. Either a mix CD or an album which is solid throughout, because hitting ’skip’ 8 times, listening to 3 tracks, and [...]
27 Oct
Incidentals
A. My Buffy post generated more dirty spam than any post heretofore. (So, she brought the wood out?)
2. I realized a few weeks ago (and Achi demonstrated) having something like my blog could be a liability when it came to, say, applying for writing positions. I use this page how many people use sleep; as basically a dumping [...]
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