Vignettes, July Through November
Individual diners find unexpected friends across a restaurant; medieval and recent history intersect with the present in ways that are varyingly hopeful, disheartening, and funny.
Three Months With Wolf Alice’s ‘The Clearing’
It pushes the band’s artistic endeavors into enriched territory while simultaneously managing to hold true to their established identity
Enjoy It First
To my student, The Maze Runner wasn’t an exploration in the dystopian genre. It was a story. An entertaining, exhilarating, and enjoyable story.
Drummer’s Girlfriend
I was never a Justin Bieber, One Direction, boy-band fanatic, but what I feel watching Micah play must be what the hype is all about.
Collecting Vinyls Without a Record Player
Giving up when confronted with the imperfections of the world isn’t going to make the world a better place.
Remembrance of a Dirty Childhood
I had forgotten land existed beyond the concrete.
Ten Stephen King Books and What I Thought of Them III: The Bachman Lands
Photo Credit Reader beware, I’m about to talk about scares. (And with the right title: it’s “What I Thought of Them,” Me from Last Fall. You mistyped your own title, you git!) Ahem. As always, I (the post calvin’s self-appointed Stephen King scholar) spun a randomizer...
Struggle to Heal
Fifteen years into this struggle, and it’s difficult not to be discouraged that nothing is different.
My Complicated History with Mice
I would be lying if I said I hadn’t been hoping that Cora, the mousetrap queen, would be able to take care of this.
Walking in Place
I wonder if driving isn’t transportation’s equivalent of scrolling: too much input, too quick to remember more than a fraction of it.
