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Dissonant December 2024: Reading, Viewing

2 weeks ago
Ashley Vaught

Greatest Hits: "Carefree", "Geology Bites" on sedimentary bias, "The Cheese and the Worms" (very sexy stuff)

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Notorious November 2024: Reading, Viewing

2 months ago

Greatest hits of November 2024: "Brewster's Millions", "Silas Marner", "Earth Time." Worst moments: "Over the Top"? "Short Circuit"?

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October 2024: Reading, Viewing?

3 months ago

October is a good enough reason to watch scary movies. Like the vice presidential debate ... or the movie "Terrifier,"…

  • On Literature, Books

The Kremlin Ball, by Curzio Malaparte

3 months ago

"The Kremlin Ball" narrates time Malaparte spent in Moscow during the late 1920s and the intellectuals and Soviet elite he…

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Sep. 2024 Reading, Viewing: Curzio Malaparte, Under The Skin

4 months ago

Greatest hits of September undoubtedly include Curzio Malaparte's unfinished novel "The Kremlin Ball"; they do NOT include watching "Jaws 2"…

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August August 2024: Reading, Viewing

5 months ago

Kept reading The Overstory" and should have finished it. Started "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993-99), which has been a…

  • Idle Reflections

Orlando Museum of Art: 10 Aug 2024

5 months ago

Going to a museum has always been an experience like going to church. Same reverence, quietude required. Except that at…

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July 2024: Reading, Watching

6 months ago

Greatest hits: the Netflix Ripley series, "Blood and Wine" with Jack Nicholson, "Geology: A Very Short Introduction." Lowest lows: "The…

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June 2024 Reading, Viewing

7 months ago

Greatest Hits: Everett's "Erasure," Zweig's "Mary, Queen of Scots," "Code Inconnu." Lowest Lows: "S.W.A.T." (2003). Ouch.

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May 2024 Reading and Viewing

8 months ago

During May I consumed so much Stefan Zweig, Nikolai Gogol, but also "Crime Wave" and "The Insider" and even "La…