Oct 27, 2022 TV Cultural Diet Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season Three (2022) I still enjoy Lower Decks’ poking fun of Star Trek tropes, but this season didn’t click for me as m…
Oct 26, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet The Mitchells vs. the Machines by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe (2021) Zany, over-the-top, hilarious, and heartfelt, or basically, what you’d expect from Philip Lord and …
Oct 26, 2022 Music Approach by Lawrence English (Review) Inspired by a classic ’80s manga, this is an album of dark, drone-y ambience par excellence.
Oct 24, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes by Roger Corman (1963) I’ve been wanting to see this Roger Corman sci-fi/horror classic for awhile now, and it didn’t disa…
Oct 21, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet Attack the Block by Joe Cornish (2011) It’s probably been ten years since I saw this in the theater, but this action film about a group of…
Oct 19, 2022 Nerdery TV The Rings of Power, Season One: Flawed, yet Faithful to the Spirit of Tolkien’s Mythos Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation is not without issues, but its heart (and sense of ambition) is in the right place.
Oct 18, 2022 Personal Religion Hypocrisy and Unbelief in High School David French’s recent column takes me back to my own high experiences with hypocrisy.
Oct 17, 2022 TV Cultural Diet The Rings of Power, Season One (2022) I had some quibbles with this first season, due mainly to its attempts at juggling four different s…
Oct 17, 2022 Food Cultural Diet Parker’s Smokehouse Some of the best BBQ ribs I’ve had in a long time. We were a little underwhelmed by the brisket (wh…
Oct 17, 2022 Miscellany Cultural Diet Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to the SAC Museum over the years, but every time I go, I’…
Oct 15, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Miguel Llansó (2019) I’m not sure any synopsis can do justice to this strange movie about a pair of CIA agents trying to…
Oct 15, 2022 Opus News New Subscriber Playlist: “Into the Abyss, Volume 2” Subscribers can listen to a collection of shadowy songs that’ll prepare them for chillier days ahead.
Oct 9, 2022 Food Cultural Diet Itsumo Ramen I really liked this place when it was called AmuManu Ramen, and it’s still just as good. I had the …
Oct 7, 2022 Music “Windy City Dreams” by Unwed Sailor Listen to the latest single from Johnathon Ford’s instrumental outfit.
Oct 5, 2022 Technology Artificial Intelligence is Changing (and Challenging) Art, For Better or Worse Artificial intelligence can generate impressive artwork, but not without tripping over legal and ethical issues.
Oct 4, 2022 Movies Cultural Diet Secret Headquarters by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (2022) This “family” superhero comedy has a few laughs courtesy of Owen Wilson and Michael Peña, but overa…
Oct 4, 2022 Music “Hole in the World”: A Musical Entry Point into the Gates of Heaven I don’t know how to conceive of what Heaven will be like, but listening to this song makes it a deeper reality.
Oct 4, 2022 Movies Finding Nemo Didn’t Lie to Your Kids; Pixar Just Chose to Focus on Deeper Truths Should Finding Nemo have been about a father and son hermaphrodite couple?
Oct 4, 2022 Miscellany Why I Won’t Encourage My Kids to Play Football Were my boys ever to ask me if they could sign up, I must admit that I’d probably do my best to dissuade them.
Oct 4, 2022 Miscellany According to Andrew O’Hehir, Football Is in a Well-Deserved “Death Spiral There’s simply too much negativity, controversy, and damage surrounding the sport for it to remain as it currently is.