Apropos of Nothing

I'm not sure it makes sense to call it the "Holy Grail" because you could find recorded versions of the show if you knew whe...

The Winner, and New Champion Not long ago, I was looking for something in the blog archives and stumbled across this pos t, about my Top...

In one of "Annihilation's" early scenes, Natalie Portman is painting the bedroom where she and her husband Kane slept.  It...

And last but not least, a list that will hopefully be longer this year - the books I read in 2017: Altamont - Joel Selvin The Power of t...

Housekeeping post #2 - the movies I saw in the theater in 2017: Thor: Ragnarok The Shape of Water Star Wars - The Last Jedi The Florid...

This is strictly a housekeeping post, but I like to memorialize for the record the music, films and books that I've enjoyed in the cours...

As far as Super Bowls go: it was the best of times; it was the worst of times. The best of times: Were you not entertained?   It's...

Almost forgot to close this thing out!  Aside from King Kendrick, Jason Isbell made my favorite album of 2017, the first time to these ear...

Like most of the music-listening world, the digital age has changed the way that I listen to music.  I still buy CDs and rip them onto my ...

Scroll down a bit and you'll find what I wrote about the two albums Chris Stapleton released in 2017.  They were both outstanding, an...

Every now and then, a song is released that is so perfect that it feels like a miracle.  The Cranberries' "Linger" is such a...

This is not a young man's song, and Rodney Crowell hasn't been a young man for a while now.  You look at him in this video, and ...

The National is another band that I came to enjoy rather late, and even now I've yet to discover a couple of their older albums that man...

In the span of less than a month, we've lost two of the all-time legends in sports broadcasting: Dick Enberg and Keith Jackson. Fun Fa...

Son #2 asked me yesterday when the "Songs of 2017" series would get around to Kendrick Lamar, and now is as good a time as any.  P...

I like to think that I'm up-to-date on most of the new bands and music of the day, but every now and then one manages to slip through th...