Training cats
This mother/daughter team has done something even harder than herding cats. Just watch:
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Stuff and more stuff: downsizing with Marie Kondo
This is a Thing, I guess: In the [Netflix] show, Kondo acts as a tiny garbage fairy for messy people, alighting on their houses and the piles of stuff therein to share the wisdom of the “KonMari” method. This method, … Continue reading →
The Righteous Brothers: reaction video
Sometimes when I need some relaxing down time, I surf YouTube. A while back in my YouTube explorations, I came across what are known as “reaction videos.” They’re a strange genre in which people often rack up biggish view counts … Continue reading →
Finding the musical fountain of youth
I was looking at one of those “then and now” rock music videos, in which there are a series of clips of rock singers singing one of their old hit songs when it was new and then singing it again … Continue reading →
The rise of the loud restaurant
Here’s an Atlantic article that discusses the rise and current ubiquity of something I’ve hated for a long time—the loud restaurant. So loud you really can’t have conversation successfully—and to me conversation is a big part of the enjoyment of … Continue reading →
Jersey Boys: here and there and everywhere
I saw a production of “Jersey Boys” recently in southern Maine at the Ogunquit Playhouse. It’s still going on, but apparently it’s sold out or almost sold out for the rest of the run—and no wonder, because watching it is … Continue reading →
Apparently they killed off Roseanne
The character, that is, in the series that used to bear her name. The plot line has her dying from an opioid overdose, in both a nod to a current US problem and an act of vengeance against the series’ … Continue reading →
Apparently Kanye West’s embrace of Trump represents a temptation that Democrats can’t resist
It’s puzzling to me why the left doesn’t just ignore Kanye West, because all their over-the-top race-based criticism of West draws attention to—and actually validates—his message that the left and the media want black people to think only one way, … Continue reading →
The Nation’s poetry editors denounce themselves
I’m a lover of poetry, as you can probably tell from the number of posts listed in that category on my right sidebar (as I write this, it’s 161). But the poetry of the last twenty or thirty or even … Continue reading →
Another race hoax…
…much like the others: A waiter at a Texas steakhouse made up the viral story about a customer leaving him a racist note, his employer said Monday. The story gained national attention after Khalil Cavil, a 20-year-old server for Saltgrass … Continue reading →
At the drop of a fly or a hat or a goose
The other day I was talking to a friend and I mentioned that something was “dropping like flies.” And then I paused to wonder what on earth is the origin of the phrase. After all, it’s not as though we … Continue reading →
The NY Times is homophobic
Or rather, homophobia is excused and even celebrated by the Times if it’s in the service of anti-Trump propaganda. I already wrote such a long post today on the Trump-Putin news conference and the media storm around it that I’m … Continue reading →