A short tour of my book collection

A new essay from your resident contrarian.

David Lynch. Artist. David Lynch was an artist from Missoula, Montana. He wrote and directed the films Inland Empire ,  Mulholland Drive...

Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...

I have occasionally made comments on this blog that America has become a sick nation in its ravenous appetite for true crime. It is...

* ½ out of **** At this point, what on earth can you say about Ryan Murphy? His output includes some of the worst television I’ve ever...

NOTE: Unfortunately, I was unable to make the deadline last Friday due to illness. To catch up, another blog post will appear tomorrow at...

In this year where everyone is on their tiptoes awaiting one form of political turmoil or another, my thoughts have been drifting toward...

Saturday Night Live (pr. n.): a live show in which most of the funniest sketches are pre-recorded. On the late Norm Macdonald’s Netflix...

I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...

Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...

**** out of **** Normally, Netflix releases true crime docuseries. But its newest docuseries is not about a crime. Oh, there’s a trial....

I recently completed watching two of what have been called the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos and The Wire. The...

So, for the past three weeks, I’ve chosen heartwarming, fun Christmas fare. Offbeat perhaps, but traditional. Now. It’s time for the dam...

While I will stipulate that the story of Christ’s birth is perhaps the Greatest Story Ever Told, I maintain that Charles Dickens’ A...

Premiering with A Garfield Christmas Special in 1987, Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas Celebration is another underrated gem of a...

Welcome to the holiday season. In my lifetime, Christmas has gone from something you might start celebrating the day after Thanksgiving...

This article originally appeared on an earlier blog and was included in the collection Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It):...

I have always hated Thursdays. I consider them insufferable twenty-four periods you have to wade through to get to Friday and the start...

To appropriate a quote from Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes—there’s Godot—so quickly!” But also, sometimes, life just happens, and you...