what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

opening match #6: Exalted 2e vs Vampire: the Masquerade 5e here we have two games where the nuances of managing one's appearance and id...

today is Juneteenth. well, not really. it was yesterday. but today is the "observed" day of it. so it counts. ish. I first learned...

the fifth of my Matthew McConaughey movies was The Newton Boys , which I watched this afternoon. I'd never heard of it before, but it se...

hello January's end. here we are. and a few weeks back I decided, determinedly, that even though my once weekly blogging habit has been ...

most people who know me know I get incredibly picky about movies. it is an awful snobbishness, an unshakeable sensitivity to predictable tro...

everyone was talking about this Netflix series Stranger Things a few months ago. I'm not sure if it was the things that were being said...

there are no closed systems. everything influences everything else. all of us play roles in all the others' lives. the cast and the scri...

this has been a significant chunk of my summer so far. books and sunshine and chocolatey beverages. so, somewhat in the style of Nick H...

friend Melanie (look-- she has a great blog ), a few months back, put together a list of her favourite romantic films . and in that post, sh...

LetterPress - Printing Kahlil Gibran from Callil Capuozzo on Vimeo . last week, on a tuesday just as lovely as any tuesday in February ...

one month from today, there will be theaters showing this film. after all this , we needn't to go into how much of a Sherlock geek t...

today is St. Patrick's Day, and fittingly, I have spent most of it with Flogging Molly in my head. it's their song "If I Ever L...

"Every book worth reading is a meeting place." I love having friends who read books. I especially love talking about books, the on...

Will Smith is getting old. I noticed this last night, stretched out on somebody else's carpeted floor, watching his performance in the...

lovely christmas. how about yourself? I've been job hunting. which gives me place to mention this rarely updated but rather insightfu...