Last weekend brought prime pleasure reading weather. It was rainy and chilly, and I was spending a long weekend on a ranch. In between watching San Andreas and Fury Road, I read Bryn Schurman’s Further Complications. It was the right choice for an enjoyable “beach” read. Further Complications bends genres at will. It’s funny, tense, and mysterious without taking itself too seriously. Think Pineapple Express, or pretty much any Tom Cruise movie from the 80s or 00s. Since it is has a lot of mystery […]
How to be a Playa (or a Monogamist )
The audiobook version of Modern Romance is the perfect blend of pop science, humor, and social commentary. If you like romantic sexy times, your cell phone, and laughing, give the book a go. If you are cheating on your significant other, don’t listen to this book together. Your partner will probably figure out your secret and you will have a car ride full of uncomfortable silences and side-eye. Actually, maybe that would be the best for both of you in the long run. See, the […]
strumming the cosmic chord
What is this book? It’s a musical autobiography by The Talking Heads’ David Byrne. It’s an art manifesto. It’s a history of exploitation in the music business. It’s a punk rock how to guide. It’s cosmic mysticism and star science. It’s good. How Music Works is about how music is made, and how music makes us. Specifically, chapters focus on certain aspects of music creation such as context, technology, commerce, and collaboration. The book doesn’t necessarily build a narrative, and individual sections can be read […]
“A few men on each side were zealots, a few pacifists, but most just wanted to stay alive until the end.”
I was in elementary school when Star Trek: The Next Generation popped up on tv. My parents watched it, so I watched it, too. That was the beginning of my interest in science fiction and in space. Different aspects of sci-fi are attractive to me. The majesty and wonder of space are what I enjoy the most (ex. Contact, Rendezvous with Rama, Sunshine). The terror of the unknownalso fits sci-fi well (Alien, Europa Report, Ex Machina, Sunshine again). As my nerdy high school compatriot Peter once […]
When Superheroes Use Tinder for Good!
It’s a good time for comics, especially for comics with younger protagonists. Marvel’s Ms. Marvel is a fun book, Morning Glories is Image’s hellish but entertaining read set in a prep school (I can speak to the first volumes), Gotham Academy is DC’s take on Harry Potter meeting The OC, and the Waid/Staples Archie reboot is my favorite comic in print. Then, there’s the recent Batgirl update. The new Stewart/Fletcher/Tarr team places Batgirl in college and in Burnside, which I think is Gotham’s Brooklyn. (By the way, comics with younger sidekicks have traditionally […]
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.” – Mark Twain
Like many attorneys musicians men humans, I like drinkin’ ‘cause it’s fun. I am adept with beer, malt liquor, gin, rum, absinthe, the occasional fermented millet drink, and moonshine. Sadly, however, the drink that I wanted to love more than any has eluded me. That, friends, is whiskey. Despite my many attempts to sip the amber nectar of my heroes of yore, I simply have not been able to stomach whiskey without quickly developing a sour stomach and a headache. It tasted like peanut oil. […]
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