Another Week
About this blog
I used to really enjoy Twitter — but when Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company in April of 2022, I quit Twitter because I wanted no part of creating content for a platform owned by Elon Musk. For good measure, I also quit Facebook, which had always felt to me like creative servitude.
Eventually, I decided to contribute my two cents on my own internet platform — this website. I launched Another Week on January 1, 2023.
Every week, I post an update, with assorted items that I’ve encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, songs, books, websites, products, news stories … whatever.
Meanwhile, events keep unfolding:
- During Week 4, I used artificial intelligence to illustrate a Bob Dylan song.
- During Week 8, my youngest sister, Lori, died of leukemia.
- During Week 23, we learned that my wife’s breast cancer had metastasized to her meninges.
- During Week 35, my wife and I took our last walk together.
- During Week 56, Amy died.
- During Week 79, Joe Biden looked completely lost at his presidential debate.
- During Week 98, national hemorrhoid Donald J. Trump was elected President of the United States of America for a second time.
- During Week 113, a house exploded a few blocks from me.
And so on.
In between, I have listened to music and podcasts, watched sporting events and old movies, read a few books, and done some gardening.
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“an authentic human experience” — NotebookLM
Another Week: Number 147
Life whizzes by like a time-lapse clip, 2,000 people join Racine’s ‘No Kings‘ protest, the end of ‘WTF with Marc Maron,’ and ‘John Candy: I Like Me’
Another Week: Number 146
No Soliciting: Door-to-door is an outdated approach, American Experience: ‘Hard Hat Riot‘
Another Week: Number 145
Blissful weather, dragsters in the night, Trump to deploy US military against Americans, Billy Corgan/Amy Poehler/Jason Schwartzman podcasts, ‘Dark Passage’ (1947).
Another Week: Number 144
Packers lose/Bears win, The Three Stooges run our country now, ‘American Experience: FDR,’ ‘A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599,’ Bob Odenkirk/Nobody
Another Week: Number 143
Another brutal Bears loss, Apple’s ‘Liquid Glass,’ Indiana Fever advance, ‘A Story is a Deal’ by Will Storr, ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel.
Another Week: Number 142
Hummingbirds out, NFL in. Two stories about walking. A local cashier. The assassination of Charlie Kirk. ‘Thursday Murder Club’ on Netflix.
Another Week: Number 141
Gutter cleaning, new school year, RFK Jr. mayhem, ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel García Márquez, and ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (1961).
Another Week: Number 140
Cicadas, signs of autumn, a raccoon in the White House, troops deployed to cities, ‘A Prairie Home Companion,’ and ‘The Third Man’ (1949).
Another Week: Number 139
Peace and relief when aggravation withdraws, NotebookLM reviews this blog, the Dow closes at a record high, and ‘Charade’ (1963).
Another Week: Number 138
Whatever we thought “America” was, getting rid of it only took a few quick months. Also: ‘Song Exploder,’ ‘Adolescence,’ the Trump-Putin “summit,” and ‘Whirlybird.’
Another Week: Number 137
Cornered by a heat wave and wildfire smoke, the news and sports are no relief. Also: Torrential Milwaukee rain, and Petrifying Springs redesign.
Another Week: Number 136
Fighting Canadian wildfire smoke with my Coway HEPA filter, more Trump-Epstein horseshit and Gaza starvation. Plus: ‘Easy Living‘ (1937), ‘South Park’ (2025), and ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938).
Another Week: Number 135
Maybe, before it snows, my Bee Balm or my Agastache or my Penstemon or my Butterfly Bush will flower. Or maybe not.
Another Week: Number 134
Camp Lake birthday party, life-threatening yardwork, how Elon Musk can save public broadcasting, and ‘Your Friends & Neighbors.’
Another Week: Number 133
Hiding out as summer creaks past its peak, Iga Świątek wins Wimbledon, and ‘National Velvet’ (1944).
Another Week: Number 132
Local noise nearly reaches a climax on the Fourth of July. Plus: a pumice stone diagram — and ‘Stick’ and ‘The Studio,’ two Apple TV+ shows.
Another Week: Number 131
Dew point house arrest on my vibrating couch watching CNN. Some of the foods I eat. The magic of walking. ‘My Mom Jayne’ (2025).
Another Week: Number 130
Screw it — let’s skip summer altogether. Also: Benjamin Netanyahu dances Trump into war with Iran, ‘Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life,’ and ‘No Country for Old Men’ (2007).
Another Week: Number 129
Uneasiness and queasiness in the air — but we keep moving forward, Apple’s WWDC 2025 announcements, and ‘Michael Clayton’ (2007).
Another Week: Number 128
Canadian wildfires, fetching Trump’s pork chops, Marc Maron ending WTF, hummingbird validation, Mom’s 90th birthday, ‘Waitress’ (2007).
Another Week: Number 127
More perennials and mulch this gardening season — and maybe some moss. Elon Musk exits. NATURE: ‘Hummingbirds of Hollywood,’ ‘Bono: Stories of Surrender.’
Another Week: Number 126
Rose-colored glasses on or off: Infantile ‘hero’s journey‘ or bleak reality? Plus: goodbye Pocket, hello Anybox — and ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’ (2021)
Another Week: Number 125
Playing chess against God, warmer temperatures, lawn and landscape progress, severe weather alerts, Trump grift tour, and ‘Jackie’ (2016).
Another Week: Number 124
The anticipation factor of TV news, a new pope, walking with Larry, Suleika Jaouad on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,’ ‘Nonnas’ (2025)
Another Week: Number 123
Wildlife week in my yard, ‘Donnie Two Dolls,’ ‘The Story of Medieval England,’ author Daria Burke on ‘Fresh Air,’ and ‘Paper Moon’ (1973).
Another Week: Number 122
Easter season hope, Pope Francis dies, Pete Hegseth’s pocket square, WISN 12 News and the NFL Draft, ‘Conclave’ (2024).