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As I mentioned last week, there were two big contenders this year — “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” – and I didn’t resonate a whole lot with either of them. That said, I thought the Academy did a pretty good job of balancing its awards this year. “One Battle” served as career recognition for…
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There’s a little over a week until the Academy Awards, and I’ve seen a good number of the films involved, so I have been trying to decide on what I thought was the best movie of the year … and, honestly, I’m at a loss. The favorites are “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”. From…
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First off, Mark drove, and did an awesome job parallel parking in North Philly. For free. (We evaded the parking captain a block east of The Met.) It ain’t easy. Mark is an avowed “Isbell skeptic” who has made much fun of me over the years for my avowed devotion to JI. I was wondering…
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I never thought I’d see the day when being named Kevin would get me side-eyed walking to work down Market Street. For decades, “Kevin” has been a solid, unremarkable name — the kind of name you give a dependable guy who holds the door at Wawa or patiently explains how to connect your Bluetooth speaker.…
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Here are my fave songs released last year. And yeah, if you know me, Jason Isbell’s latest solo effort dominates it. I can take the heat.
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Something from seven years ago … — Living on blood thinners has meant getting comfortable with bruising. Contact causes bruising, and life is a contact sport. That is all true, and I need to avoid activities that will leave me one big bruise. And yet, a year after the diagnosis and first procedure, and a…
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I caught “A Complete Unknown,” the movie about Bob Dylan’s emergence as a cultural force, and I’m trying to understand how it is landing so heavily in my own house. My wife, not a Dylanphile at all, has been intrigued for two days now. She has asked me for Spotify playlists that correspond to the…
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I was at the gym on New Year’s Eve and decided to do some step-ups to a box, maybe two feet high. Left leg went well, then on fifth rep on right leg, I felt a twinge in my back. A click-click in my spine. I know it when it happens, which is about every…
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I’ve decided that I’m going to get back to blogging on a regular basis in 2025. So preemptively, I figured I would list my favorite music of 2024. In a very particular order, my favorite albums of 2024: Tigers Blood, Waxahatchee. I saw Katie Crutchfield for the first time this year, and I am very…
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I am an artificial intelligence skeptic. That said, I like to see what it does with requests that I think will teach me something about it. So recently when I heard that Philly-based TV shows Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia had committed to a joint episode, I thought it provided a chance…
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I use the journaling app, Day One, though honestly I’m a very sporadic journaler (and a former journal-ist). One thing D1 does is show you things you wrote on this day in previous years. Here’s an entry from nine years ago, April 2, 2015, where I responded to the following prompt: What stories, images, and/or…
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It looks like a very Oppie year. It’s been a while – like, 4 years – since I felt like I saw enough of the Oscar Best Picture nominees to have an opinion. But this year, I have, and I even saw some of them in theaters. Take that, covid! That said, here are my…
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