I have been thinking a lot about bureaucracy of late. Though it may seem like a somewhat dry theme to most, for me it is the most interesting thing going on in my recent (and, uh, not so recent) media consumption. I have said it before, though perhaps not in writing, that watching [...]
My ass has been solidly roundhouse kicked by my job, but I am still up and fighting! There are only about five teaching weeks left. I can totally do that! Yeah!
Anyway, here’s a short list on what’s been going on in my intellectual life, which has been a little meager the past couple [...]
It starts with The Wire. After months (years?) of hearing tell of the virtues of this tv show that I’ve never seen, as I haven’t had HBO in any house in which I’ve lived since I left my parents’ house many years ago, it finally managed its way to the top of our Netflix queue [...]
Jeff got the gold edition of “Twin Peaks” for Christmas, along with a crapload of other box sets (who are This Heat anyway?), and we have been enjoying it quite a bit. Jeff has been enjoying “Twin Peaks” for a number of years now. I myself watched some of it with Pinzler back in the [...]
First blog post of the year–it’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this thing (at times painfully sporadically) for a year or so. Dang. It has been quite a ride the last couple of months: we have gotten a little bit used to sarah teaching and made our peace with being truly adult with [...]
. . . poor, neglected life.
Things I’ve been digging:
1. Tuna Bouchons.
2. Veronica Mars is coming close to filling the void Buffy left in my heart. Godamn TV for always canceling good shows. RIP: Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Gilmore Girls. Updated: HOLY CRAP! Alyson Hannigan is Logan the jerkwad’s sister!
3. A Long way Gone, by Ishmael [...]
Mark, a guy i worked with at the bookstore said once, “If you don’t like jazz, you haven’t heard the right kind.” (Granted, this was a guy with couple thousand jazz records on vinyl–I didn’t then, nor do i now have anything on him.) I have come to believe that, even if Sarah’s [...]
Thanks to the never-ceasing joys of Netflix, Jeff and I have been watching Carnivale and The Muppet Show. I can’t quite speak about the former yet as, though it is addictively engaging, it is madly mysterious. The Muppet Show, however, I’m ready to talk about because some aspects of this weirdo variety [...]
Jeff and I have mentioned casually a couple times our deep appreciation of the tragically cancelled television series The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. As many of you probably know, we don’t actually have telelvision–no cable, no television set. What we do have, however, is a Netflix account divided into three queues–one for him, one [...]
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