Why “MyMy”?
When he was 2¹/₂, my wife and I enrolled our son Michael in a once-a-week Mandarin language class. Every Sunday, I sacrificed watching a NFL game to drive 30 minutes […]
What We’re Watching
The Witcher, Season 1, Ep. 5 – Bottled Appetites & Ep. 6 – Rare Species The romance seemed rushed. But then we find out Yen and Geralt have a longer […]
What We’re Listening To
1999 [2 Disc Deluxe Ed.] – Prince My God, this is an amazing album. At the time it first dropped, nearly 4 decade ago, we digested music mostly through the […]
A Few Pop Culture Lessons on Viral Outbreaks
The big difference between the COVID-19 threat and any viral threat depicted on-screen has to do with the stakes. In movies and TV shows, the threat has to be immediate […]
What We’re Watching
I am learning a truth about being human– being social is an activity. And yet before this pandemic, far too much of my time was spent in ‘passivity’. Watch something, […]
Sorry, Disney. The Empire Strikes Back Will Always Be The Best Star Wars Movie.
Four decades ago, the sequel to Star Wars arrived in theaters. We had no idea how the story would continue after the destruction of the Death Star. This chapter of […]
Emerging
We know that movies are a dramatized, condensed, simplified and often hollowed-out version of our experienced or imagined reality. The dramatic arts use a toolbox of devices to translate experiences […]