

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

Xenophon's Ten Thousand
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...

The longest week
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...

Oops I messed up my blog
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...

Whistlepig 10
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...

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

Last Word (and Final Ward) cocktail
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...

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

Six weeks into home with three
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...

And Maggie Makes Three
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...

The Speaker election
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...

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

Top 10 favorite movies
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...

He speaks!
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...

The RoP and the compression of time
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...

Kilbeggan Small Batch Rye
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...

Mull of Kintyre
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...

The late Bronze Age and AoE
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...

Watchmen and the giant squid
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...



















