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  • Come as you are, but be ready to change

    The slogan of the church I attended in middle and high school was “Come as you are”, which was fitting for a nondenominational church in the hyper-liberal, irreligious enclave of Madison, Wisconsin. I remember the senior pastor expounding on the slogan during one sermon. He added an addendum that I think transforms it into something […]

    April 16, 2022
    Etc., Religion
  • Six movies at the end

    The small movie theater near me temporarily closed in March 2020 due to COVID, but then sadly never reopened. (The one movie I got to see there before the end was Knives Out—not bad…) Whoever closed the building for good clearly didn’t take a peek around the corner, because these movie posters are still on […]

    April 12, 2022
    Film
  • Favorite Films of 2001

    I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. We’re now over 20 years away from the films in question. This means my impressions of the ones I haven’t rewatched somewhat recently are encased in metaphorical amber, for better or worse. It also means I wouldn’t have seen a good number of them […]

    April 10, 2022
    Film, Review
  • Fine free fate

    What happened when New York Public Libraries eliminated overdue fines last fall? Exactly what always happens when libraries go fine free: A wave of returned overdue materials came crashing in, accompanied by a healthy increase (between 9 and 15 percent, depending on the borough) of returning visitors. Since last fall, more than 21,000 overdue or […]

    April 2, 2022
    Libraries
  • Long live the limited podcast series

    My recent experience with the Band of Brothers podcast made me realized I’m very much a fan of the modern trend of “official” companion podcasts released alongside limited series by the show’s creators—Watchmen and Station Eleven being two recent examples I enjoyed and appreciated. These are slightly different beasts from the popular post hoc recap […]

    March 24, 2022
    Media, Television
  • Recent Views

    More photography here and on my Instagram. Into the tundra: A ghostly window creature: 3 year old was “helping” me clean out the car on a warmer day by “fixing” a headrest with a wrench, but all you can really see is the reflection of the sun and clouds in the rear window: Among the […]

    March 21, 2022
    Photography
  • Courage & Camaraderie in ‘Band of Brothers’

    Band of Brothers, the 2001 Tom Hanks-produced HBO miniseries that dramatized the history of Easy Company paratroopers throughout World War II, was a formative viewing experience for me, especially on the heels of Saving Private Ryan. That was as a youngster interested in history and World War II, and as the grandson of a veteran […]

    March 17, 2022
    Media, Review, Television
  • The Rockefeller theory of time travel

    Morgan Housel: Charlie Munger was born in 1924. The richest man in the world that year was John D. Rockefeller, whose net worth equaled about 3% of GDP, which would be something like $700 billion in today’s world. Seven hundred billion dollars. OK. But make a short list of things that did not exist in […]

    March 15, 2022
    Science, Technology
  • Connect 4 with a 3 year old

    Things my 3 year old did while he and I played Connect 4: Said “I block you!” after each time he inserted a disc, even when he didn’t block me Inserted discs pell-mell with the goal of filling the entire board Inserted discs using his toes Things he didn’t do: Attempt to connect 4

    March 10, 2022
    Family
  • It’s Chadabout time

    Well, I done did it—I started a newsletter. It’s called Chadabout and it’ll be a monthly digest of my writing from this blog, plus other things of interest from real life and around the web. No spam, no ads, no algorithms—just words and links sent with love from your favorite librarian, cinephile, and typewriterist. A […]

    March 3, 2022
    Writing
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