Calvin and Hobbes is without a doubt the best comic strip ever written, and if anybody disagrees with me they can meet me in Weehawken tomorrow morning with pistols drawn. I don’t know of any other comic strip that can veer from the pure joy of a 6-year-old and his best friend to existential musings within the span of 4 frames. It’s also hilarious, which you would think would be a given for this medium, but so many strips out there have continued for decades […]
You get born, and you nurse on lies, and you get weaned on lies, and you learn fancier lies in school
“Young folk […] they don’t know what to do with themselves.” A young man in the 1870’s drops out of Harvard and finds his way to Butcher’s crossing. He finds a reputable man who offers him a job managing the finances of the buffalo trade, but it’s not enough for Will Andrews. He tracks down a man named Miller who knows of a secret spot where there’s an untouched buffalo herd, ripe for the killing. All he needs is a little money. Andrews has that […]
Every woman adores a Fascist
I found this beautiful version of Ariel at Hebden Bridge, a little town just beneath the hill where Plath is buried at Heptonstall. Later I would later hike up there and see the two churches, the old one, burned down or deteriorated by time, and the new one that seemed dull to me compared to the expanse of a forgotten church. I didn’t know she was buried there so I walked right past her with her book in my bag. In the dullest of conclusion […]
I hate when this happens.
Have you ever expected to love something in pop culture — simply because everyone that you know and trust has loved it before you — and then been totally crushed when you just don’t? Recently, we rented the movie The Big Sick. I had been waiting for weeks to see it and just knew I would love it. I think Kumail Nanjiani is hilarious and was obsessed with the story about how he fell in love with his wife. So I thought I would love […]
Wilde Mania
This is the first in a new series by Eloisa James, The Wildes of Lindow Castle, featuring here Lord Alaric Wilde who is the son of the Duke of Lindow. He isn’t the heir to the title, that honor belongs to his elder brother North after the first son died unexpectedly. Alaric has been out of the country for several years, traveling and exploring while writing about his adventures. He’s completely unaware that his books have created a popular persona among the ton, and he’s […]
Well, I think I’ll go and oil my gun.
Opening salvo, hot take: everything Tom Stoppard has ever written is incredible; this isn’t his best work. The Real Inspector Hound is the first live production of a Stoppard play I ever saw, followed about a year and a half later by Arcadia. So, I will always be grateful to Hound for preparing me, because otherwise Arcadia might have melted my brain, and working directly with Tom (humblebrag) on The Coast of Utopia would have been the actual death of me. Hound is a delight. […]
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