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Read More You should Be Listening to Houselights on The Nerd PartyDon't Take This Too Seriously. I Don't.
I’m proud to be a part of the show, and I want people to listen. If you haven’t tuned in yet, give it a shot.
Read More You should Be Listening to Houselights on The Nerd PartyStay with me here. It was a long drive and I had time to think.
Read More The First Jedi“And yet,” you respond, “you’re blogging right now.” You’re correct. I write in fits and starts because I find it therapeutic and I enjoy doing it. It’s a hobby. For the most part, it’s a harmless one. But I miss blogging the way that I used to blog. By and large, the blogs were read […]
Read More I Miss BloggingNot so long ago, I rewatched a favorite film from childhood, Highlander. It’s a charming little gem that works in spite of itself, and I’ll always love it.
Read More A QUESTION ABOUT “HIGHLANDER”I responded, “You want to be a Jedi. Why would you say ‘Jedi scum’?”
Read More “Jedi Scum” & Why It Made Me Frustrated again at Disney’s Handling of Star WarsGiven this was the first substantive gathering I’ve attended since the Before Times, I had to break the ol’ conversational skills out once again.
Read More the rare gem: A Unique ConversationHeaded out while on a brief stay elsewhere and they had a real, honest-to-goodness bookstore nearby. It wasn’t quite the Mom & Pop store for which I’d been hoping, but it was a bookstore. Spread out before me, behind a glass edifice, was a vast expanse of paper and forgotten words. Authors known and never […]
Read More The Lost Joys of the BookstoreA simple, philosophical pondering this time.
Read More Friendly SilenceSomething I’ve realized as we revisit Coppola of the 1970s on Houselights for The Nerd Party is that he’s become something of a forgotten genius.
Read More The Forgotten Genius of Francis Ford CoppolaAs the world’s preeminent Star Trek V scholar, I find it incumbent upon myself to elucidate the subtler points of the film. I’ve pondered a lot, as have others, about the critique of pop psychology self-help trends as embodied by Sybok. I’ve projected whether we can see a thread running between The Voyage Home and […]
Read More The Lost Lesson of Star Trek V: What We Don’t ShareMandingo. Watching the controversial 1975 film based on a book (and play, apparently) of the same name has left me disoriented. I haven’t been this off-kilter after a movie since I made the bad decision to watch twenty minutes of a Lars Von Trier movie that was streaming, because I knew his reputation as a […]
Read More I Watched the Controversial Movie “Mandingo”I got the chance to go see Die Hard in the theater again. I’m so glad I did. It was a reminder of how special movies can be, even after you’ve spent decades with them.
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