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Sunday, March 15, 2026

2026 Oscars

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Photo taken by RAP in LA, August 15, 2025 As I do annually, this post reviews Academy Award nominees in major categories and provides my r...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Best Films of 2025

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The graphic below identifies the top 25+ films from 2025 that critics ranked on their end-of-year "best of" lists. The full list g...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

Honorary Kansan?

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Today my spouse and I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. This is one of the artists most famous paintings ( Sunflowers ): In case yo...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Books of 2025

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    Annually, I write a post listing almost all of the books I read during the calendar year.  It seems kind of hard to believe, but I hav...
Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Films of 2025

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  Attribution:  Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons As usual, there are numerous well-reviewed 2025 films that I did not yet...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Life Updates

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This blog has not been the site of much posting for many years -- but this year I have said even less than usual. These days, I am far more ...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

No Kings

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My spouse and I, a neighbor, and friends from different parts of town attended the No Kings rally in Louisville in the Crescent Hill neighbo...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Resistance Strategy When the Government is Itching for Violence

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Last week, President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth spoke to a group of U.S. generals and admirals they had assembled from deployments ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Michigan Travel and Beer Update

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White Flame Brewing, Hudsonville This post is another update to my series of entries about Michigan beer . Basically,  I'm listing place...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Wildfire Season

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There's a long introduction explaining the origins of the song...by singer Jobi Riccio.    Of course one problem is that Wildfire Sea...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

Baseball Stadium additions

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Globe Life Field, Texas versus Seattle Friday July  I've seen professional baseball in dozens of ballparks -- many of them no longer ope...