Off Topic: Il Buco…
Last week I watched Il Buco, or The Hole, the latest film from the Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino. It’s…
Off Topic: Curious and…
I wish I could tell you that the older and more tedious I get the more I see the…
Off Topic: the wide…
Heads up there are vague spoilers for Better Call Saul season 6 episode 9 in here. In a way,…
Off Topic: The lost…
If you left Earth in a rocket ship in the 1820s, headed for Jupiter, I guess that would be…
Off Topic: Love blooms…
“My most insidious Blue.” Red writes to Blue. She leaves her letter in a pot of boiling water in…
Off Topic: Coffee is…
My daughter is almost nine, and I discovered recently that she’s reached the age at which the right drink…
Off Topic: Pattern Recognition…
It’s fitting, I think, that I first read about Pattern Recognition in the book review column of Edge Magazine.…
Off Topic: I want…
Trying to launch a new game show must be like trying to launch a new chocolate bar: absolutely terrifying.…
Off Topic: The cascading…
I used to think I wanted to learn card tricks. These days I want to learn card flourishes. There’s…