Over the past month I have published two pieces that have elicited far more comments than any of my other 300-plus articles: “Ten Classic Westerns You Absolutely Must See Before You Die” and “Ten Classic War Movies You Must See Before You Die.” …
It had started as a drinking game. A drinking game for pop culture nerds, to be exact. We were just a bunch of punk kids then, film and literature majors who got passed over by every fraternity and sorority on campus and banded together as much out of self-preservation as…
Last week I published an article about five of the worst movies ever made, at least as far as their historical accuracy. To show that I’m not just a grumpy old man who hates everything, today I want to present the flip side of that: five movies that are both…
Did I predict the Omicron variant two months ago? Sort of, though not exactly. A little over two months ago, I wrote a rant about how giving COVID booster shots…
It seems strange to be writing about Christmas while it’s still November, but Thanksgiving came late this year, Black Friday is over, and we are now less than a month away from December 25th. With the new, slower, U.S. …
Today is the first Sunday of Advent (be sure to get your Advent wreaths), and for the next four Sundays of this Christmas season, my weekly “Three Minutes With the Saints” article will have a Christmas theme. …
I stumbled across a tweet today…or maybe it was a tweet shared on Facebook, or a TikTok that was tweeted and then shared on Facebook, who can tell anymore…that managed to crystallize in one image everything that is wrong with America today. That may seem like a bold statement, but…
I have written on multiple occasions that one of the pivotal moments in my life came at nine years old when, in August of 1975, the Born to Run album was released. On that occasion I had a St. Paul-like, Road-to-Damascus experience during which the scales fell from my eyes…
It’s hard for me to believe, but Advent starts this Sunday; the days may drag sometimes, but the years fly by. For anyone unaware of the season, Merriam-Webster’s defines Advent as: 1) the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and…
I recently came across an article in The Guardian from more than a year ago titled “Bruce Springsteen: Where to Start His Back Catalogue.” My first reaction was surprise that I hadn’t seen it before, though it does give me hope that some of my own older articles will someday…
