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Solo: A Star Wars Story Movie Review

Solo: A Star Wars Story Director Ron Howard Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, and Donald Glover Writers Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan I finally watched Han Solo’s origin story. I really liked it. I saw it as an attempt to rehabilitate the reluctant hero Han

The Long View 2006-10-30: Premonitions and Dark Arts

There is an interesting premonition of the Eurozone financial crisis here. Monetary union between Germany and Italy and Germany and Greece devastated the economies of the smaller, less productive countries. Some people saw this coming a long time ago. There is a kind of analogy to be made to the

The Long View 2006-10-26 Pointed Humor

This post written in 2006 illustrates nicely the difference between antifa on the Left and Frog Twitter and 4chan on the Right. Unlike Weimar Germany, America is full of Righty humorists and Black Bloc marchers with bats and bike locks. Pointed Humor The propaganda element of the Terror War has

The Long View 2006-10-23: American Nadir; Empire; Art; Indult; Thanatophobia

I would concur with John Reilly here that a sung Mass, whether High or Low, is a remarkable experience. There are a variety of sung settings for the Mass, in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms, by well-known composers. It is unfortunately difficult to find one in practice. I had

The Long View: World War Z

World War Z remains one of my favorite books. I liked Brooks’ device of an oral history, and I enjoyed the wide variety of characters we meet through the “interviews”. As with so much of my favorite fiction, the characters seem like real people you could meet somewhere, or maybe

Goodnight, Anne Book Review

Goodnight, Anne: Inspired by Anne of Green Gables by Kallie George (Author), Genevieve Godbout (Illustrator) 40 pages Published by Holt, Reinhart and Winston (1978) ISBN 978-1770499263 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. First published in 1908, L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green

Everything Will Wight on Sale!

Everything Will Wight on Sale!

I’m trying to catch up on my sleep, so things are quiet around here right now, but Will Wight announced a sale on his blog: Free Unsouled (Ben’s review) House of Blades (Ben’s review) On sale for 99¢ The Crimson Vault (Ben’s review) City of Light