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Sunday, June 30, 2024

Canadian Film Festival

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In late May my spouse and I drove to Canada and attended the Blue Mountain Film Festival at the ski resort just outside of Collingwood. From...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Blood of Angels

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Until tonight, I think the last film I saw in a theater was "Little Women," which would have been December 2019 -- in Long Island,...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

2024A Louisville Sluggers

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This post is going to highlight the fantasy baseball team I've built for the first half (A) season of the OBFLB (Original Bitnet Fantasy...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Oscars 2024

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This is my annual post about the Academy Awards. I'm not predicting who will win, but instead ranking the nominations in my preferred or...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

American Feelings

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I used some "Feeling Thermometer" data in a class recently and was struck by an insane result reflected in the recent data. You...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Best films of 2023

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The graphic below identifies the top 25 films from 2023 that critics ranked on their end-of-year "best of" lists. The full list go...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Films of 2023

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I didn't watch that many 2023 movies this year, particularly through October. However, I did sign up for Letterboxd and have been writin...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Books of 2023

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This is my annual post listing books I read in the most recent year. It seems kind of hard to believe, but I have produced such a post sin...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Kissinger, Finally Dead

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Over the years, I've collected a number of unusual images that I occasionally hang on my office walls. I am a student of political satir...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

Rochester (NY)

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Last month for fall break, my spouse and I visited our oldest daughter in Rochester, NY. That picture above is actually from our 2022 trip, ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Passing notes

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I previously blogged about a quote from Louis Masotti that I referenced many times when I was a college debater. My junior year affirmative...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Natural disaster

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On August 25 the huge oak tree in front of our house dropped a large branch during a microburst from a storm. Later that night, it rained an...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Beach week and DC Stopover

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My family returned to the Delaware beaches this summer for the first time since 2017. My spouse's sister and her family also came over f...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

20 Years Later: 3 Nights in August by Buzz Bissinger

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This book has been on my radar for a long time. It was published to some acclaim in 2005 and concerns a three game baseball series   that...