Jan 31, 2022 TV The Master Chief Goes to Work in the First Halo Trailer (Review) There’s a lot to like here, but at the risk of sounding nitpicky, why isn’t Cortana blue?
Jan 30, 2022 Video Games Cultural Diet Firewatch (2016) I didn’t finish this one, so I don’t feel like I can rate it, but what little I played was really i…
Jan 30, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas by Sam Dunn (2019) I know nothing about ZZ Top’s music (other than the obvious hits) but I really enjoyed this.
Jan 29, 2022 Music From the Womb of the Morning, the Dew of Your Youth Will Be Yours by Ronnie Martin (Review) More than a return, this feels like a rediscovery of everything that made me love Ronnie Martin’s music in the first place.
Jan 28, 2022 Anime Pop Culture A Delightful Promo for Studio Ghibli’s Theme Park The theme park opens on November 1 in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture. I want to go to there.
Jan 27, 2022 Video Games Cultural Diet Children of Morta (2019) I loved everything about this old school-feeling RPG, from the lush pixel art and diverse, fantasti…
Jan 27, 2022 Video Games Children of Morta Is a Heartfelt Epic About One Family’s Battle Against Evil (Review) With its gorgeous pixel art design, colorful characters, and engaging storyline, Children of Morta is an RPG gem.
Jan 26, 2022 Music “Pleasant Ship” by Kiriyama Family The Icelandic group’s latest single is a lovely slice of soulful, slickly produced pop.
Jan 25, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet Eternals by Chloé Zhao (2021) Though I appreciate what Chloé Zhao tried to do here, the results were flat and unremarkable. Also,…
Jan 24, 2022 Literature Cultural Diet Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, Book One) by James S. A. Corey (2011) Reading this, I can’t help but hear the actors’ voices from the TV series. They really did a marvel…
Jan 23, 2022 Literature Cultural Diet Shibumi by Trevanian (1979) I’m pretty sure this novel about the world’s greatest assassin (and lover) is supposed to be a paro…
Jan 21, 2022 Food Cultural Diet Vic’s Pizza Our new favorite pizza place in Lincoln. Their pepperoni and cream cheese is on point.
Jan 21, 2022 Movies Max Reload and the Nether Blasters by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp (Review) A shallow, mean-spirited movie obsessed with proving its own cleverness time and again.
Jan 21, 2022 Literature Cultural Diet Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks (2021) I thought this would be right up my alley, but it never clicked for me. Did not finish.
Jan 20, 2022 Movies 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus by Joshua Wesely and Simon Wesely (Review) There’s a certain charm to this inept German film about Christians battling religious persecution brought on by the pandemic.
Jan 19, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet Max Reload and the Nether Blasters by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp (2020) I can’t remember the last time I hated a movie as much as I hated this one.
Jan 17, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet 2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus by Joshua Wesely and Simon Wesely (2021) An absolute train wreck. A fascinating train wreck. But a train wreck, nevertheless.
Jan 16, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet The Fable by Kan Eguchi (2019) Really enjoyable action scenes, but the comedy was too broad and over-the-top. Still undecided as t…
Jan 15, 2022 Music Last Life In The Universe’s Soundtrack Has Haunted Me for Nearly Two Decades The soundtrack’s melancholy ambience is a perfect match for the film’s dreamy surrealism.