Showing posts with label Really Bad Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Really Bad Ideas. Show all posts
10/28/26

Standard Time: An Antiquated Idea?

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    DST Forever: We Are Not Farmers   This weekend we have to set the clocks back an hour for Standard Time. I loathe Standard Time! It...
6/17/26

Playing with Fire: Excellent Mystery, Terrible TV

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  So yes! So no!      PLAYING WITH FIRE (2004) By Peter Robinson Avon Books, 405 pages. ★★★★★   I doubt I need to tell the rea...
5/27/26

Cold on My Shoulder

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Normally I’d have posted on this blog this morning. That was the plan but, alas, I brought something back from England that couldn’t b...
2/25/26

Vermont Winter Reconsidered

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Not my photo, but it was one of my bad choices! When I drive into town in the winter and see kids waiting for the bus wearing hoodies an...
7/22/24

Blind Democrats: Episode # 519

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    Democrats are pathetic when it comes to blowing elections. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and blinder-bo...
6/10/24

Promise and Failure of the Arts and Crafts Movement

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  Sometimes the very best and very worst ideas are one and the same. Industrialization began to catch on in the early...
4/17/24

Music for April 2024: Otava Yo, Steve Martin, Robby Hecht, Afro-Semitic Experience and more

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    I avoided Russian music in protest against the war in Ukraine until I came upon the St. Petersburg-based Otava Yo...
11/1/21

American Made: What Happens when Work Goes Away

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  AMERICAN MADE (2021) By Farah Stockman Random House, 432 pages. ★★★★       The subtitle of American Made , Far...
12/31/18

2018 Best and Worst in the Arts

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2018 Best and Worst of the Arts Time for the end of the year reckoning of things I loved and didn't. I admit that lists of this...