Sitting down and trying to come up with 50 goals for a year is not as easy as you think it would be. Once I got up to 30 or so I started to slow down and really struggle to come up with goals that were interesting and actionable (something you can measure with experience…
Ever had insomnia so bad you decided to become a taxi driver and slowly descend into violent psychosis? Meet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a Vietnam vet whose idea of a self-improvement program makes Fight Club look like a mindfulness retreat. Travis takes a job driving a taxi on New York’s night shift, which in…
When a Wandering Samurai Decides to Play Chess with Human Pieces Ever have that moment when you walk into a town and think, “This place could use a good old-fashioned gang war”? No? Well, meet Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), a masterless samurai who does exactly that, though admittedly with more style and a better sword than…
Blues 5, Rangers 2 I’ve always enjoyed watching Hockey at MSG knowing that a day ago it was a basketball court. It’s always amazing to me that they manage to switch over the entire arena in such a short amount of time. (https://www.wsj.com/video/quick-change-artists-transform-the-garden/86D21535-0721-4EB7-AB8F-DB3F9371921E) For this game I scored some nice seats through my Chase visa…
I’ve been playing guitar for over 30 years. I would say I’m an intermediate guitarist, mostly in that I can play a lot of songs, I can sight read a tab and pick it up quick. I know my scales and chords, circle of fifths and all that jazz but I never really took that…
The Great Escape: When “Sorry, Wrong Tunnel” Isn’t an Option You know a movie’s going to be good when it opens with the Germans essentially creating their own all-star team of escape artists by putting all their most troublesome POWs in one camp. Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy! Based on a true story from World…
Pão de queijo, or Brazilian cheese bread, is a delightful small, round bread roll that’s remarkably crispy on the outside and wonderfully chewy and soft on the inside. What makes it particularly special is that it’s naturally gluten-free, made with tapioca flour (also called manioc or cassava flour) instead of wheat flour. The bread gets…
Seahawks 26, Jets 21 Life is tough as a Jets fan. The team hasn’t been to the playoffs in 15 years. They continually botch the draft and no premium free agents want to play for this clown show of a team. I thought that when they signed Aaron Rodgers and drafted Sauce Gardner, Breece Hall…
Philadelphia 5, NYFC 1 Soccer shouldn’t be played in baseball stadiums. It should be played in stadiums designed for the sport. The sightlines at this game were poor and the seating was weird as some people were right on top of the action and others were too far away. They did close the upper deck…
Let me take you through this monumental epic, which manages to feel both impossibly vast and deeply personal at the same time. The story begins with Lawrence’s death in a motorcycle accident (ironically, after surviving all his desert adventures), before rewinding to show us the eccentric British Army lieutenant in Cairo, where his insubordinate attitude…