The Olds? Where the hell did that come from? I’m reading an article in the Washington Post about how movie studios are adjusting their business model, planning in some cases to release movies on streaming services and in theaters at the same time. Of course, that’s for the post-COVID world, when people actually want to …
“When did we as a country lose the ability to debate calmly and find common ground in order to solve problems? Was it one big event or a series of them?” I saw this question on Twitter as an inquiry to the wonderful Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station, maybe the most intelligent blog site I’ve …
I’m worried, and I hope I’m more worried than I need to be. What is most bizarre about it is that some of the people I’m worried for are … imagine this … Republicans. Georgia Republicans. A few weeks ago, I had about as much affection for them as Jake and Elwood Blues had for …
I’m generally not that big on monster movies. Modern ones, at least. I always enjoyed the Universal films from the early 1930s — Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman (Larry, not Jack) and the others. I liked the later ones that brought them into contact with Abbott and Costello. I was okay with the mutated insects of …
Sometimes strange things happen. Sometimes you set out to do something and then completely forget it. I set out yesterday to write about people who believe in conspiracy theories. I accomplished that in at least setting up the story, but the purpose was to finish with Donald Trump and how he is creating his own …
Things get weird at the end of centuries, and they get really weird at the end of millennia. Yes, I know we’re 20 years past that, but have you noticed that the weirdness not only didn’t go away this time, it just keeps getting more and more strange. My favorite story of what can happen …
My grandparents lived in their house in Ohio for nearly 70 years. My mother was able to visit until she was 63, my uncle Paul till he was 68. I was 40 the last time I was there, just after my grandmother’s funeral. They had lived in a small town of about 5,000 people. Both …
I used to think I was extremely knowledgeable about popular culture. Through most of the ’80s and into the ’90s, it was easy to keep up. Music, movies, television … if it was popular, I knew what it was. Not anymore. As we approach the end of the year, newspapers and the rest of the …
I have little or so use for the Republican Party’s latest blonde. Unlike Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham, though, Georgia’s Kelly Loeffler was appointed to the state to fill a vacancy in December 2019 when Sen. Johnny Isakson resigned for health reasons. I’m not going to go into her issues or ever talk about why …
Let’s start with the fact that I have no use at all for 65-year-old Republican Congressman Ted Yoho(ho) of Florida. It actually hurts me to call him a crazy old coot and then realize he’s five — soon to be six — years younger than I am. But I can tell you at any age …
