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A big highlight of having HBOMax has been diving into its wealth of foreign films, in particular those from Japan. I've enjoyed seeing...

In case you couldn't tell, I've really been into ancient Greece lately. After hearing about it a couple times in other books, I decided...

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

About two weeks ago I was working on a new post. Wix (the site hosting this), when going to upload a picture said I was over my limit for...

Time for another whiskey, and it's a fun one. I'd already been wondering how Whistlepig, a little distillery in Vermont, rose to such...

Fairly recently I watched Battleship Potemkin (1925), a silent-era Soviet propaganda film that (amusingly in retrospect) was banned in...

I'm not usually that into cocktails. It should probably be obvious by now my preference with liquor is whiskey, as it comes. But, with...

There are upsides of gas-powered equipment, like lawn mowers or snowblowers, and those are primarily related to their power. They'll...

Less than two years ago I wrote about my first couple weeks home alone, during the week when my wife was back at work, with two kids. I...

I've stated before there's nothing, in pop culture or elsewhere, that's had a bigger impact on my sense of humor than the Simpsons. I...

Last week it took a few extra days and 15 ballots to elect a Speaker of the House for the new Congress, something unusual but not...

I think most Americans know the broader definition of western civilization goes back through medieval Europe to Rome and, ultimately, to...

It's been on my mind for a while to do a top 10 movies list. The problem, more than anything else, was I wasn't fully sure what I wanted...

Our #2 child is now two years old and he's, up to this point, not been a talker. He came out of the womb sucking on two fingers on his...

I didn't like Amazon's The Rings of Power. Week to week, from a higher level, it felt like a chore to watch. The details of the plot...

If there's one (relatively) under the radar Irish whiskey I've appreciated for a while, it's Kilbeggan. I don't know if it started with...

Our eldest loves music and is either singing to himself or wants something played for him all the time. The last year+ most of his...

We spent our Thanksgiving down in Arizona. Much of my family is down there, including my parents, and we split our time between the 'East...

Over the last few weeks I've been watching HBO's Watchmen (2019), one of the shows I was most curious about when signing up for Max. I...

One of the most popular destinations in Washington DC is the Air and Space Museum, and for good reason. The Smithsonian institution...