Watch This Word Wander
Surplice This summer a friend of mine bought a new piece of clothing for wearing outside during the hot weather. … Continue reading Watch This Word Wander
Month: August 2016
Movie Monday: Hell or High Water
Here’s a great movie that you should plan to see. The piece is set in West Texas, where the … Continue reading Movie Monday: Hell or High Water
Surrender, New York: A Warning
This new novel has everything going for it. Its author is Caleb Carr, whose first book, “The Alienist,” was a … Continue reading Surrender, New York: A Warning
Chilling
The Idiosyncratist is spending much of the year in Tennessee, where the average summer temperatures hover around 90 degrees … Continue reading Chilling
What We Like in Films Today
Below are the top-selling movies in the U.S. last weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, which tracks these things. Let’s … Continue reading What We Like in Films Today
Movie Monday: Indignation
This is one great movie. Based on a short novel by Philip Roth, it traces the life of a young … Continue reading Movie Monday: Indignation
Election Year Reading
If you like a story well told and are interested in the history of small-r republican government, you could … Continue reading Election Year Reading
Politics
Regular readers know that I do not care for politics. This will be my only such post this year. Every … Continue reading Politics
Cheap Appliances
Incident 1 Last year, our dishwasher gave out. It was about eight years old, and it had cost more … Continue reading Cheap Appliances
Movie Monday: Sausage Party
It was only a matter of time before we got a movie like this one. If Pixar could make … Continue reading Movie Monday: Sausage Party
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