Archive for the 'Pop Culture' Category


L’Aquila

We’re here for a hundredth birthday concert for Henry Mancini. L’Aquila is somewhere between one and two hours from Rome, depending on the traffic. It’s in the Apennine mountains. (You remember them from elementary school, right? Well, I remembered they were in Italy, but I couldn’t have picked them out on a map, nor did […]

Morgan Wallen And The Chair

The only people who care are those who don’t listen to his music. Oh, don’t get your knickers in a twist, I’m not defending this heinous act. He was probably drunk, but he’s got a history of bad choices when he’s drunk, at some point you have to grow up. But in the old days, […]

Mass That Is Not

Are you excited about the eclipse? I’m not. Furthermore, wasn’t there a once in a lifetime eclipse just a few years back? But the media industrial complex hype has been building and building and… Who knows, the weather might not even be good. And if you look at the sun unaided/unfiltered you’ll go blind, or […]

Caitlin Clark

This is the Beatles, not Taylor Swift. This is not a victory lap by a known quantity, this is something brand new, something most people were unaware of that will change the landscape forever. Let me ask you, did you know who Caitlin Clark was last year? Unless you were a fan of college basketball, […]