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 144

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 134

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 132

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 121

Another Week: Number 121

Wind blasts a squirrel’s nest out of my juniper, Trump is finally a constitutional crisis, Jason Isbell on ‘Fresh Air’ with Terry Gross, ‘Rick Steves’ Poland,’ “The Last of the Mohicans’ (1992).

Another Week: Number 120

Another Week: Number 120

Trump plays with the levers of power, UConn and the Bucks bring basketball joy, ‘Jazz on a Summer’s Day,’ and the Liza Minnelli documentary.

Another Week: Number 119

Another Week: Number 119

A new purple pot for the parlor palm, Elon Musk loses Wisconsin’s Spring Election, Donald Trump drives America straight into a ditch, and ‘A Complete Unknown’ (2024).