So, my town’s council passed a budget, and nobody was very happy with it. The main problem is that the town has just re-evaluated properties after ten years or so of real estate madness (well, more than that of the…
Yes, it’s every Gentle Reader’s favorite time, that bit where Your Humble Blogger writes a few lines about a bunch of videos. OK, fine, but look, I could be writing whole entries about this stuff. It’s probably a deficiency of…
I believe that Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance is one of those plays that theeyater people know about, without ever having read, much less seen it. John Arden is still around and working (there was a collection of short stories out in…
I would have expected Mortal Engines to be right up my alley. I mean, airships, post-nuclear wasteland, wild skiffy machines, sentimental cyborg assassins, art historians with guns. And, in fact, I liked it a lot. Somehow, though, I didn’t feel…
Your Humble Blogger was going to elucidate and enumerate the layers of bad taste in Fallen Soldier, an op-ed by Fouad Ajami in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, but I became intimidated and gave up. Yes, it’s a plea for Our…
Following up on my note from yesterday about how exceptional this campaign will be, I should probably put my observation in the context in which it came to me. Which is this: a majority of Republicans still tell pollsters that…
I was ruminating, today, on this idea I’ve been repeating that the next President will be an exception of one kind or another, whether it’s the first female president, the first black president, the first Latino president, the first Mormon…
So this time through rereading The Curse of Chalion it occurred to me that Ian McKellen would be perfect to play Umegat, the old groom/priest/saint/troublemaker. I found myself going over his dialogue in McKellen’s voice, trying different ways he might…
You know, YHB hasn’t written much about baseball for a long time, mostly because I don’t have that much to say, but I happened to look at Jonathan Mayo’s last-minute projection for today’s amateur draft and was moved to ask…
John Scalzi over at the Whatever has an interesting question: what would it take, in the next 20 months or so, for Our Only President to produce a record of Anything But Failure? And the amazing thing is, there really…