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  • Barnes & Noble likes books again

    Ted Gioia on the remarkable rebound of Barnes & Noble: [CEO James Daunt] used the pandemic as an opportunity to “weed out the rubbish” in the stores. He asked employees in the outlets to take every book off the shelf, and re-evaluate whether it should stay. Every section of the store needed to be refreshed […]

    January 26, 2023
    Books
    Barnes and Noble, books, business, movies, music
  • My ‘Back to the Future’ bonanza

    Well, I finally did it: I finally revealed my decades-old collection of Back to the Future memorabilia. With it being Sci-Fi Month at Cinema Sugar, I thought the timing was right to show-and-tell such items as: I had a blast doing this, so please watch, enjoy, and share:

    January 19, 2023
    Film
    Back to the Future, Cinema Sugar, film
  • Favorite Books of 2022

    Gotta be honest: 2022 wasn’t a great reading year for me. I read 22 books, which was much worse than 31 in 2021 and just barely better than the 18 in 2020. A lot of my potential reading opportunities were either taken up by movie watching, Cinema Sugar, or other leisure activities. Not a bad […]

    January 17, 2023
    Books
    best of, books, lists
  • A ‘Bluey’ song exploder

    One of my Christmas presents was Bluey: The Album on vinyl. My wife got it as a joint present with my son since we’re both big Bluey fans. The first song on it is an extended version of the theme song I’d never heard before called “Bluey Theme Tune (Instrument Parade)”: After the standard opening, […]

    January 12, 2023
    Music, Television
    Bluey, music, television
  • A COVID movie journal

    As I’ve been going through my old journals and digitizing the entries—a tedious and time-consuming process that will eventually yield a much more accessible and searchable archive—it’s been fun and enlightening to rediscover things I was thinking about at any given time. Like this entry from March 10, 2020: I hadn’t seen Contagion at that […]

    January 9, 2023
    Film, Life
    COVID-19, film, movies
  • Quotes of the moment

    An ongoing series “To be an artist, you don’t have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It’s just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life.” – Viggo Mortensen “The modern dogma is comfort […]

    January 5, 2023
    Etc.
    quotes, quotes of the moment
  • 2022 in review

    See previous year in review posts.  My view from the end of all things 2022: (Not visible: the buffalo plaid pocket square accompanying the bowtie.) The biggest thing that happened to my family this year was trying to have a second child. It was a long and demoralizing journey that ultimately ended successfully (due in late May), […]

    December 30, 2022
    Etc., Life
    lists, year in review
  • Recent Views

    More photography here and on my Instagram. A sunbeamed leaf as seen through our car windshield: The yin and yang of a backyard bonfire remnant: At work in his corner office: Cloudy with a chance of a refill: The bubbles are back, and they’re multiplying: Mr. 3 Year Old is eager to shovel at the […]

    December 22, 2022
    Photography
    Baby Comello, photography, recent views, snow, winter
  • My own ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’

    I finally listened to the original cast recording of Back to the Future: The Musical, which is making its Broadway debut in June 2023. I can’t say I loved every song, though the new showtuned rendition of “Power of Love” is most welcome: It also reminded me that years ago I started making my own […]

    December 16, 2022
    Film, Music
    Back to the Future, music, musicals
  • My favorite Christmas albums

    I’ve written a few times about the music I enjoy during Christmastime (see my Christmas music tag for all of them). This time I wanted to list all of the albums I keep in rotation, both to provide some suggestions for fellow Yuletide tune jockeys and see for myself just how much I listen to […]

    December 13, 2022
    Music
    Christmas, Christmas music
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