Category: entertainment

  • bleep

    bleep

    This is so stupid. “Bleep” is so stupid. Even though I played it, I still think it’s stupid. I honestly didn’t expect it to work. I played it only because I was trying to get my brain going. I needed to a word, any word, to get some momentum going and I only had one… Read.

  • Pleasant Valley Sunday

    Pleasant Valley Sunday

    “Pleasant Valley Sunday,” sung by Carole King, who co-wrote the song with her husband, the lyricist Gerry Goffin. Until today, I only knew this song as a top ten hit by The Monkees. What a treat to find this recording. Read.

  • guppy

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    “How did Tim guess ‘guppy’ on the second try with just one letter?” B wondered aloud in the car on the way home from work today. “Well I guess I won’t be playing Wordle today,” I responded dryly. Read.

  • Whoa.

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    Welp. Looks like I’m finally going back to the movie theater in June. Read.

  • Nobody

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    I may have lost my taste for movies like “Nobody,” the latest John Wick-like film about a bulletproof assassin who messily kills every baddie in the movie, even when they come at him all at once, guns blazing. The one versus many idea seemed entertaining when it was new but, in this movie at least,… Read.

  • loop-de-loo

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    While skimming social media this morning I read one passing reference to the 1975 pop music hit “The Hustle” and GUESS WHAT’S BEEN PLAYING ON A LOOP IN MY HEAD EVER SINCE. Kill me now. (Warning to those who did not grow up in the 1970s: If you Google “The Hustle” DO NOT LISTEN TO… Read.

  • tears?

    Smoky Robinson’s hit song “Tears of a Clown” sounds like a guy trying to get away with something. “I’m so bummed that you broke up with me. If you see me smiling that’s just me trying to cover up my feelings, I’m actually really sad. And if you see me having a good time at… Read.

  • I Cannot Picard

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    I’m a huge Star Trek fan from way back. I’ve watched every episode of the original series so many times that you can show me a two-second clip of any show and I can tell you which one it is. I stood in line outside the movie theater in freezing temps to see Star Trek:… Read.

  • vocab

    From “The Joys of Yiddish” by Leo Rosten: To help you distinguish kvitch from kvetch from krechtz (a salubrious set of niceties) I offer these observations: You can kvitch sedately, charmingly, out of happiness; to kvetch is always negative, bilious, complaining; and to krechtz is to utter grating noises of physical discomfort or spiritual woe.… Read.

  • suddenly

    The lyrics to “One Summer” by the Motels put me in a snarky mood. Read.

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