Started reading W.G. Sebald, for the first time. Who turned me to "The Hunter Gracchus," by Dr. K. Also, Edgar Lee Master’s "Spoon River Anthology" … okay, perhaps not odious
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- 2022-11-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Star Wars
Saturnine September 2022: Reading, Viewing
Greatest hits of September: "Lord of the Rings," "We Are the Best!" (2013), "The Hunt" (1966)—and I finished James Joyce’s "Ulysses"!
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- 2022-10-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
“The Mandalorian” Still Stinks in Season 2
A second season has not improved Disney’s popular streaming series "The Mandalorian"
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- 2022-06-26
- Confessions of a Bad Movie Watcher
Lasciviously Read & Watched: January 2022
Each of books and films lasciviously read and watched (respectively) during the first month of the 2022nd year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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- 2022-02-06
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Happily Read and Watched: December 2021
Didn’t do much mountain biking, but I read and watched “Alien Resurrection,” Cynthia Ozick’s “Trust,” Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1”, Italian Neo-Realism, etc.
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- 2022-01-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read, Viewed: September 2021
During September I finished reading "Shadow of the Torturer" a short story by Adalbert Stifter, luminary of 19th century German literature, and watched "Forbidden Games."
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- 2021-10-10
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read and Viewed: April 2021
April truly was the cruellest month, but only because I read not a word of T.S. Eliot.
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- 2021-05-06
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read and Watched: March 2021
Black history month extended 60 days, at least, reading through Mary Shelley and seeing my first Dick Powell film …
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- 2021-04-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-12
Perhaps I began the month of December inauspiciously, insofar as I read/viewed/consumed nothing on the first day of the month (see below). In fact, I did read two different Harry...
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- 2021-01-02
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-11
During the month of November what I read and viewed—what I consumed—was less varied and somewhat sparse. In fact, lost some weight.
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- 2020-11-30
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Read Viewed Consumed 2020-06
George Floyd was killed | among twenty snowy mountains | the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird | what I read was this
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- 2020-07-05
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
Is Writing About Bad Movies a Waste?
In which I performatively answer the question with reference to an episode of The Mandalorian, whether one should write about bad movies/televisions shows.
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