I have, quite accidentally, wandered into writing my autobiography. Eight years ago, when I was turning 35 and dealing with some huge life changes, I made a playlist of 70 songs – two for each year I’d been alive – that added up to a soundtrack of my life, and I captioned each with a… Continue reading 86 Songs for 43 Years (An Update)
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Some of My Favorite Movies, Part Three
Welcome to Part Three of my pandemic film review series! After ten months of dutifully watching all the movies and TV I had meant to get around to, I got tired of new experiences, made a list of my favorite movies, and started watching them in alphabetical order by title. In this intro post, you… Continue reading Some of My Favorite Movies, Part Three
Some of My Favorite Movies, Part Two
Welcome to Part Two of my pandemic film review series! Ten months into spending all of my time in my apartment wearing sweatpants, I made a list of my favorite movies, and started watching them in alphabetical order by title. In this intro post, you can learn more about the project and find links to… Continue reading Some of My Favorite Movies, Part Two
Some of My Favorite Movies, Part One
Welcome to Part One of my pandemic film review series! Ten months into spending all of my time in my apartment wearing sweatpants, I made a list of all my favorite movies, and started watching them in alphabetical order by title. You can find out far more than you wanted to know about this project… Continue reading Some of My Favorite Movies, Part One
Some of My Favorite Movies: An Introduction
What’s going on here? I made a list of my favorite movies, then decided to watch them all in alphabetical order by title. To keep track of the project, I started writing brief reactions to each movie and sharing them on a private friend group Discord and on Facebook. My friends said they were enjoying… Continue reading Some of My Favorite Movies: An Introduction
Movies I’ve Watched During the Pandemic, Ranked
This blog has been on hiatus for a while. I got busy with work obligations, and then COVID-19 happened. You’d think that staying at home would have given me more time to write about figure skating, but I’m one of the people whose work load actually increased during the pandemic, and also there was no… Continue reading Movies I’ve Watched During the Pandemic, Ranked
Pop Songs for the Gleefully Strange: Why I Love Rocketman
I’m not expecting you to love Rocketman as much as I did. I’m assuming you won’t, for the same reason I don’t expect most people to love Stéphane Lambiel’s 2005-2006 free skate choreography or R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction as much as I do. It’s a good movie, although not objectively the best movie I’ve… Continue reading Pop Songs for the Gleefully Strange: Why I Love Rocketman
Why You All Need to Use My Pronouns
It’s the High Holy Days, the time of year when Jewish people reflect on ourselves and our relationships with others, and do their best to rectify all our unfinished interpersonal business. That makes it the perfect time of year to put this into the universe. It’s also a triple-header weekend for figure skating fans, so… Continue reading Why You All Need to Use My Pronouns
Missing Anthony Bourdain
I’d hoped to finish at least one more skating post before writing another off-topic piece, but Job Hell has extended into June. Also, one of my heroes died, and I think it would piss him off if I didn’t grieve in public. Anthony Bourdain died by suicide this morning. It was one of those sad non-surprises: a… Continue reading Missing Anthony Bourdain
Off Season, Off Topic: 78 Songs for 39 Years
Most of the people who read this blog only know skating-related things about me. Some of them don’t care to know more, while others have expressed interest in some of my other facets. This post is the first of what will probably be an occasional series of off-topic entries. Four years ago, when I was… Continue reading Off Season, Off Topic: 78 Songs for 39 Years