Doubt the Experts

Because there has been a revival of the subject of human immortality recently, I thought I'd write a little about that today. I've d...

In 1825, at the time of Maria and Elizabeth's illness at the Cowan Bridge School, besides Charlotte, Emily had just started. Patrick wit...

As you may have guessed, I'm not in reading mode and am moving through this book at a snail's pace. Actually, I don't want to ru...

I've embarked on this extremely long biography by Julie Barker. It is going to take me a lot of time to finish, so I may end up making p...

As in most years, I don't feel much like reading in the spring. My little tomato bed is ready for planting, and my three tomato plants a...

I'm all caught up on my domestic tasks and am pretty much just watching the grass grow now. Three tomato seedlings are doing well inside...

The remainder of the book was not particularly stunning to me, though I do think that the backgrounds and views of Brooks and Agosta are amo...

The middle section of the book covers human history over the last 11,500 years. This is an immense timeframe as far as humans are concerned,...

I've been reading this 2024 book by Daniel R. Brooks and Salvatore J. Agosta. Because it covers themes that I've discussed on this b...

I have found a book that I think is worth reading but am not far along enough in it to say much about it yet. In the meantime, I didn't ...

I seem to have reached another drought in finding books that I want to read. I started on a Vivian Maier biography but am underwhelmed and a...

Summer school , and jumbo shrimp , of course. Friendly fire , famous poet , common sense , and, until very recently, safe sex . Blind date ,...

Because I've been writing on this blog for twelve years, some of my current views are slightly different from what I wrote originally. I...

Another good song  by John Prine from Bruised Orange. I bought this album in 1978.

It looks as if winter is starting to wind down. After several warm winters in a row, this was somewhat of a shock. This is the first year th...

In a newly-released document, which is thought to have originated in Russia on the dark web, it is claimed that Donald Trump took secret onl...

I did finish the book, though it does not quite live up to my biographical ideals. There is a great deal of information provided about Rohme...

Rohmer's filmmaking career was extremely long, with his first major film releasing in 1967 and his last in 2007. It is confusing to foll...

I seem to have cut back on my "Diary" posts recently and decided that I should write another one. At times I thought that I may ha...

I am finding that, although the French New Wave was a movement, it was not coherent compared to, say, Impressionism. The Impressionists exhi...

John Prine  (from Bruised Orange)

At the time of his marriage, Rohmer was editor-in-chief of  Cahiers du cinéma , one of the leading film magazines in Paris, and this provide...

This book, by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, is my current reading project. I like most of the Rohmer films that I've seen and wante...

As I've been saying, I think that  The Contrarian  has been doing an excellent job reporting on the abuses of the Trump administration, ...