Take it from me — two things you don’t start up over the holidays are a blog and an exercise program. Despite my best efforts, all physical and literary progress went out the window in a flood of office potlucks, game days, college football, and general holiday-induced laziness. Yeah, my nephrologist is going to yell … Continue reading
My run-up to Mary Poppins Returns last night was the polar opposite of the one I had with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The original film was never a big childhood touchstone for me. I hadn’t had my expectations heightened by breathless raves. I’d heard positive things, and I knew it had garnered some Golden Globe nominations, … Continue reading
About halfway through my viewing of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, I feared I’d made a terrible mistake. I’d waited too long to see it. I hadn’t gotten to the theater before the euphoric reactions from other quarters had ramped up my expectations. This was the best super-hero movie in a year that brought us Black … Continue reading
Some would say that my birthday falling on the same day as our regular monthly game day would present a conflict. I call it serendipity. Because there’s not a much better way to spend a Saturday than playing a bunch of board games with my friends, with the added bonus of a bunch of junk … Continue reading
For as long as this blog has sat here untouched and unloved, it would have to be something pretty momentous to bring me back to it. And that something momentous happens in about an hour when I mark half a century on this planet. I came into this world in a time when we were … Continue reading
The (somewhat) annual tradition returns. I’m sorry. Continue reading
Now, release your anger. Seriously, just let it go. Continue reading
Take that, Pep Boys. Continue reading
… makes you wonder where we are… Continue reading
Or where the hell I’ve been for the last nine months… Continue reading
An Embarrassment of Rich's 