Another Week
Assorted items I have encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, books, websites, products, recipes, whatever.
Another Week: Number 122
Easter season hope, Pope Francis dies, Pete Hegseth’s pocket square, WISN 12 News and the NFL Draft, ‘Conclave’ (2024).
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
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
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).
Another Week: Number 118
Two hours of 70-degree weather, Trump bros’ Signal chat gets published, Coxey’s Army, stand-up comic Erin Maguire, and ‘Lili’ (1953).
Another Week: Number 117
Waiting to see what will emerge, baseball, basketball, snakes, the girl behind Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, ‘Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years,’ and ‘My Man Godfrey’ (1936).
Another Week: Number 116
Winter and spring are duking it out, an 11-year-old guitarist, ‘Stay off the news,’ Wisconsin Supreme Court Debate, ‘How to Talk to Anyone,’ ‘ Jesus Christ Superstar.’
Another Week: Number 115
March comes in like an ornery raccoon, Trump flicks his tariff switch like a toddler, ‘Crossing Delancey’ (1988), and ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ (1988).
Another Week: Number 114
Literal and emotional housecleaning, World of Books: Sell Your Books, Rick Beato: Why music is getting worse, and ‘Hoosiers’ (1986)
Another Week: Number 113
A polar vortex cold snap, a house explosion in my neighborhood, and the law of attraction per ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne.
Another Week: Number 112
An impaired driver with 335 million passengers, another Super Bowl, catching up on ‘WTF with Marc Maron,’ and ‘Harriet’ (2019).
Another Week: Number 111
Living alone can make you nutty. My steam iron is right. That Salesforce commercial is stupid. Also: clapping on 1 & 3 and ‘The Lady Eve’ (1941)
Another Week: Number 110
Trump’s deranged plane crash press conference, ‘Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music,’ the Unrivaled Basketball League, and the new ‘CBS Evening News.’