Recommended [Watch]: Rollerball

Recommended [Watch]: Rollerball

Image credit: Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Part of an ongoing series of recommended movies, shows, books, music, artworks, or other form of expression relevant to our present times. What is it about the mid-1970s and dystopian films set in the 2020s? What was going on...
Recommended [READ]: The Actual Star

Recommended [READ]: The Actual Star

Part of an ongoing series of recommended movies, shows, books, music, artworks, or other form of expression. In the spring of 2022, Monica Byrne’s The Actual Star joined a very short list of books that I checked out of the library, got about halfway through, then RAN...
Recommended [Look]: Art @MAG

Recommended [Look]: Art @MAG

Part of an ongoing series of recommended movies, shows, books, music, artworks, or other form of expression. Note: My accompanying original photographs in the Memorial Art Gallery purposely obscure the art to avoid legal infringements. I guess you’ll have to go see...
Recommended [Watch]: Soylent Green

Recommended [Watch]: Soylent Green

Part of an ongoing series of recommended movies, shows, books, music, artworks, or other form of artistic expression. Title photo by Veronica Lorine on Unsplash Remember Charlton Heston? He was a post-war, gravely-voiced, masculinity-is-the-point Hollywood he-man who...
Recommended [Read]: The Moon is Down

Recommended [Read]: The Moon is Down

Image credit: Print, Moon-Light, 1847; Engraved by John Sartain (1808 – 1897); After Thomas Stothard (British, 1755–1834); mezzotint and engraving in black ink on paper; 9.5 × 15 cm (3 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.); Gift of Anonymous Donor; 1952-60-6. Courtesy of Smithsonian...