Friday, September 12, 2025

Netflix Movie Touches on What Music Means

›
The fictional members of imaginary KPop group Huntr/X, Zoey, Rumi and Mira, Netflix image. “Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung...
Monday, August 25, 2025

TB Persists as Deadly Disease Because We Allow It

›
  My copy of John Green's latest. The author John Green has a nifty tradition—when he has a new book coming out, he gets a bunch of pape...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Cancelling Colbert: Media Becoming Mumbles

›
The shocking announcement this week that the CBS parent company Paramount is cancelling the highest-rated network late-night talk show, “Lat...
Friday, July 18, 2025

The End is Coming for a Cool U of I Facility

›
Clouds over lake at Macbride Recreation Area on June 25. The state of Iowa has, for years, been stingy on support for state universities, an...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Watching the War with Iran Unfold

›
  The Middle East is a region where empires go to die, as we should know by now. Map of Iran during World War II from Wikimedia Commons, att...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Reshaping the Weirdness of Oz to Something New

›
I have not yet read the novel “Wicked,” but I do plan to, having recently seen the musical movie of the same title. “The Wizard of Oz” was a...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

A Gripping Tale of Mutiny and Murder

›
My spring break 2025 book. Life in the British Navy in the early 1700s was quite rough—hard work, authoritarian power structure, harsh penal...