Noshing in Wonderland #2: “The Wave” (Disney Dining review), or: “For you, the living, this mash was meant too…”

Welcome to the second installment of Noshing in Wonderland, my inconsistently updated and sporadically interesting take on dining around the various Disney properties. I know several of you are thinking to yourselves right now: “What the hell happened to the FIRST installment?” Good question. You’ve got a lot of nerve, mister. Truth of the matter…

Album Review: “Face To Face” — The Kinks (1966)

The First Great Kinks Album! OK well obviously that’s entirely up to debate and purely a matter of opinion, but wow if this album doesn’t deliver one fine listening experience. Everything — the songwriting, vocals, musicianship, album production — is elevated to an entirely new level with Face To Face. 1966 was a good year…

Pimpin’ my wife’s blog, or: “There to entertain and take you thru the night …”

So Boots has started up a new blog. I say a new blog because she used to have an old blog, WAY back when from even before we started dating in 2005. I know this because I used to stalk her on it. I even stalked her old Dairyland blog as well. There’s something about…

“There’s no word worth your life.” An excerpt from Dalton Trumbo…

There’s no word worth your life. I would rather work in a coal mine deep under the earth and never see sunlight and eat crusts and water and work twenty hours a day. I would rather do that than be dead. I would trade democracy for life. I would trade independence and honor and freedom…

Zombies, Run: Season Two is live! or: “Just pretend I’m only a friend and disappear from sight…”

So Zombies, Run! Season 2 dropped this week. If you haven’t read my initial review of the fitness/running app for your smartphone, you can do so by clicking here. Go ahead. We’ll wait… OK are they gone? Good. Let’s go on without them. Anyway, so I was initially a huge fan of Zombies, Run! when…

Film Review: “The Commitments” — Alan Parker (1991)

Rating: 9 / 10 Alan Parker’s delightful The Commitments, based on the first book in a trilogy by author Roddy Doyle, is a remarkable movie, easily one of the best films of 1991. There reasons why this simple little tale — detailing the rise and fall of a Dublin soul band — manages to endear…

For my Adopted City, or: “Boston you’re my home…”

I’ve walked Boylston street too many times to recall. Between the ages of 17 through 21, I lived, loved, studied, discovered, and utterly evolved in a city that felt like some vibrant Hellenic slice of America. My time in Boston helped shape me in ways I’m still discovering. The pain sweeping through Beantown right now…