Taco Break: Getting Thirty
Harry Bailey (Elliot Gould), protagonist of Getting Straight, is thirty. He’s old enough to be…
Tristan "Drunk Napoleon" Nankervis
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Theme Time Radio Hour: Fire
Fire! If the wheel is humanity’s oldest invention, fire is the earliest natural element we…
SONIC ROUTE: “High Water (For Charley Patton)”, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan claims not to be prophet, excluding the period where he preached the word…
SCENIC ROUTE: Twin Peaks, “Hawk? Can you hear me?”
In season three of Twin Peaks, there is a tiny subplot in which Margaret Lanterman,…
The Creation Of Art Is An Inherently Morally Positive Act, I Think
There’s a Neil Gaiman quote that gets passed around in which he exhorts the reader…
Three Times The Two Main Shitbags On The Shield Were Oddly Sympathetic
“Get over it. Don’t bring it up again.” This moment from “The Spread” (season one,…
Taco Break: That Third Voice
Alan W Pollack said that when Paul McCartney and John Lennon sang together, they seemed…
I Fucking Hate The Disney+ UI
There’s going to be no substance to this post beyond me raging about the user…
The Magic Of Storytelling
People often ask me if overanalysing works of fiction ruins the magic, because that’s what…
Drunk Napoleon Listens To Bob Dylan: Live And Let Live (guest appearance by silverwheel)
“There’s a certain part of you that becomes addicted to a live audience. I wouldn’t…