So, YHB was invited by our Gracious Host to discuss Barack Obama’s announcement speech, so I will, and I’m working on that. But as I started looking around, I was thinking, when was the last time we elected a President…
Back a few weeks ago, I was watching a lot of Beckett on Film, and it turns out that I evidently never wrote a note wrapping up the series after finishing (or mostly finishing, as for some reason I am…
Does it seem that our generation—and I’m talking here about the skipped generation, the not-Boomers, not-Xers, the handful of us who dimly remember the Partridge Family, but got to watch Star Wars as kids, before there was anything like it—has…
OK, you have to understand, Gentle Readers, that I am culturally ignorant. Stuff just passes me by. I don’t watch much television, and I specifically don’t watch much football, and I really specifically don’t watch many television ads. I find…
I’m going to go ahead and decide that I read enough of The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2004-2005 to note it in the blog. That is, I read all the parts of the book that are reasonable to read, and…
I was always more of an E. Nesbit kid than a Mary Norton kid. I don’t know why, exactly. I mean, it would be easy to simply claim that E. Nesbit’s books are better than Mary Norton’s, but then I…
I’m not altogether sure why this discussion over at the Chrononautic Log brought this question to mind, but here it is: Given that A Christmas Carol is clearly the most popular and most enduring time-travel story in our Anglophone culture,…
Having said nice things about the Internet recently, Your Humble Blogger feels compelled to take the old hatchet to it today. Actually, it’s not the Internet, as such, that is the focus of my ire. It’s the people who believe…
One of the things that still manages to surprise me on a regular basis is the way that the very rich are different from you and me. Last night I listened to an NPR story asking Does Wealth Imbalance Threaten…
May Your Humble Blogger be excused from the game of pretending that World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is a non-fiction book? I mean, yes, I like that deadpan stuff as much as the next guy,…