Charlie Chaplin Silent Movie / Comedy – 1921 3/5 stars This one starts with an ingĂ©nue who has a baby but the father isn’t interested (doesn’t believe it’s his? Who knows with silent movies) so she is desperate to keep her career so she does the unthinkable and abandons the baby in a rich person’s…
Category: War Film Starring: A pretty visceral World War I movie depicting the horrors of trench warfare. Told from the point of view of the German soldiers it depicted a harrowing experience spoke to the futility of war. It starts out in a classroom in Germany when a teacher is giving an impassioned speech about…
One of my favorite chicago deep dish spots is Lou Malnati’s. I like that the crust is buttery and the tomatoes on the top taste like, well, tomatoes. The other chains in Chi-town have overcooked sauce with too many spices. For this reason, my attempts to make Chicago deep dish is really an attempt to…
What can I say about this album? This is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. I can still remember the first time I heard it on MTV. I was like ‘I’m not sure what musical genre that is, but I need more of it’. Before I listened to this album (and Pearl…
This one was pretty easy as I already owned this album and listened to it extensively during my long commutes in the late 90’s. There’s a reason Nas is hailed as one of the GOATS the flows are immaculate his rapping style is so clean and smooth and the tracks he’s rapping over are tight.…
Listening to this album was a trip. I went into it with a little knowledge of Prince as I had the purple rain album when I was a kid and watched the movie more than a few times. Somehow, I never listened to this album before so this is my first time hearing most of…
I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go to a monster truck show. They were huge when I was a kid and my favorite was BIGFOOT. Whenever the monster truck shows were shown on regular TV (remember in ancient times, we didn’t have streaming.. Or even more than a handful of channels) I’d be fascinated with these huge…
This weeks world tour of food takes us to Belgium! I knew one thing immediately I wanted to make- Liege Waffles! The rest we had to do some research on and everything turns out delicious. The main dish was a chowder called waterzooi – a rich stew with chunks of carrots, leeks and chicken. The…
So lots of the things I did this year were fun but this one.. I kept putting off. I think filling my 50th year with all this stuff might have been a way to distract myself from my own mortality. Isn’t that what a midlife crisis is? Some people get sports cars or boats I…