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Monday Miscellanea, 8/25/25

What’s Been Happening? Last week started off great with a trip to the local Dollar Tree for Halloween stickers. I use them to jazz up my bullet journal. The selection this year was really good; I bought four sets! A sample of one sheet is shown above. Alas, while my 9 year-old spirit was reveling […]

Cinema Saturday 8/23/25

Strange Darling Year: 2023Runtime: 1h 37mRated: R Writer: JT MollnerDirector: JT MollnerStars: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey A one-night stand with a serial killer leads (not surprisingly) to violence and death. I knew very little about Strange Darling aside from it had gotten quite a bit of buzz. As usual, I […]

Reading Notes, 8/20/25

The Weird (continually continued) We jumped into the 1970s with Daphne du Maurier’s classic “Don’t Look Now.” Maybe it’s starting the decade with this particular story, but I feel like one of the larger themes in these weird stories of the 70s and early 80s is people and places not being what they seem. A […]

Monday Miscellanea, 8/18/25

What’s Been Happening? I watched most of the World Games Ultimate matches last week, with eight teams from eight countries competing. There was only a mixed division, which is fine. I sort of wish mixed was the default for high-level ultimate. The sport is seemingly always looking for ways to get viewership as well as […]

Cinema Saturday 8/16/25

Bringing Out the Dead Year: 1999Runtime: 2h 1mRated: R Writers: Paul Schrader, based on Bringing Out the Dead by Joe ConnellyDirector: Martin ScorseseStars: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore The stresses of his job are beginning to wear on paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage). Haunted by a situation gone wrong, he […]

Reading Notes, 8/10/25

Continuing with The Weird Since my last post, we’ve moved into weird fiction of the 50s and 60s. These have been the most challenging decades for me because the weird often swerves into the surreal. My autistic-ish brain generally becomes annoyed with stories that are only enjoyable if you want to pick at their allegorical […]

Double Features 009: Horror Movie Movies Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. The Final Girls Year: 2015Runtime: 1h 31mRated: PG-13 Writers: M.A. Fortin, Joshua John MillerDirector: Todd Strauss-SchulsonStars: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Åkerman, Alia Shawkat, Alexander Ludwig Max, the […]

Miscellanea, 8/6/25

What’s Been Happening? New mod pack for Minecraft! Last week, Eric suggested I check out a new modpack. He thought I’d like it despite it being called Super Hostile. He was right because he knows I like a modpack with a good quest system and lots of mystery loot boxes. And it’s nice to build […]

Double Features 008: Mildly Magical Adrien Brody Edition

Welcome to Double Features! For these posts, I’ll watch two movies—maybe they are obviously related, maybe they’re not—and then I’ll decide whether they would make a good double feature. Dummy Year: 2002Runtime: 1h 31mRated: R Writer: Greg PritikinDirector: Greg PritikinStars: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga Steven, a socially awkward office-worker, quits his […]

Reading Notes, 8/2/25

Currently Reading The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories I’ve diligently continued my progress into The Weird. The stories are roughly chronological. Since my last post, I’ve finished the 1910s, read through the 20s & 30s, and am now in the 1940s. I’ve noticed a definite shift from the not-quite-ghost-or-gothic aesthetic of the […]