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.
- During Week 159, federal agents executed an American mom on a residential block in Minneapolis.
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.
Tell your friends.
Another Week: Number 31
Caged for a week; Celsius Sparkling Orange caffeinated water; superseding indictment of Donald Trump, ‘Jim Gaffigan: Dark Pale.’
Another Week: Number 30
Three more days at the hospital, ‘Morimoto’s Sushi Master.’
Another Week: Number 29
Inpatient week for Amy, Crumbling barn on Wilmot Road, ‘Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral,’ by Ben Smith, ‘Poker Face,’ ‘Painting with John.’
Another Week: Number 28
Fireworks are illegal in Wisconsin, ‘John Early: Now More Than Ever,’ ‘Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind’ (2020), Cocaine Bear (2023)
Another Week: Number 27
Smoke from Canadian wildfires, ‘The Bear,’ Season 2, ‘The Righteous Gemstones,’ Season 3, ‘Hijack,’ ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022), Tour de France 2023.
Another Week: Number 26
Kwik Trip Tour of America’s Dairyland in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin, ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’ (2022), ‘The Grand Tour’: Season 5.
Another Week: Number 25
Cancer treatment as Habitrail; ‘Of Human Hearts’ (1938): Abraham Lincoln berates James Stewart for not writing his mom; Tom Petty & Garry Shandling
Another Week: Number 24
Hospital rollercoaster leads to chemotherapy, Trump indicted in Mar-a-Lago-documents case, ‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 23
Bad Friday at the hospital, ‘SmartLess: On The Road,’ ‘Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love,’ ’WTF with Marc Maron’: Episode 1436 – Warren Zanes
Another Week: Number 22
‘The Secrets of Hillsong,’ ‘Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming With Dave Letterman,’ ‘Bama Rush,’ ‘Platonic,’ ‘Kathleen Madigan: Hunting Bigfoot,’ ‘Shutter Island,’ and one very sad robin.
Another Week: Number 21
‘The Way to Heaven’ in a McDonald’s bathroom, ‘Lewis Black: Tragically, I Need You,’ ‘The Great’ Season 3, FRONTLINE: Clarence & Ginny Thomas, Tears for Fears: KCRW Live from The Village Studios, ‘A World of Calm.’
Another Week: Number 20
The robin nesting in our backyard, ‘Clarkson’s Farm,’ Season 2, ‘White House Plumbers,’ debt ceiling, ‘Jimmy O. Yang: Guess How Much?,’ ‘Air’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 19
A week of personal ordeals, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ on ‘CBS Sunday Morning,’ ‘Somebody Somewhere: Season 2,’ ‘This Boy’s Life (1993)’
Another Week: Number 18
‘Stutz,’ verification in reverse, ‘Judy Blume Forever,’ ‘In Session: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Albert King.’ And do birds really eat grass seed?
Another Week: Number 17
Old greeting cards and photos, ‘Alex Borstein: Corsets & Clown Suits,’ ‘Rye Lane,’ ‘Tiny Beautiful Things,’ ‘Boom! Boom! The World Vs Boris Becker,’ ‘Jason Isbell: Running With Our Eyes Closed
Another Week: Number 16
Gun violence insanity, Chris O’Dowd in ‘The Big Door Prize,’ ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ (2023), ‘Candy,’ and Jon Favreau’s ‘Chef’ (2014).
Another Week: Number 15
Lamb for Easter instead of ham, ‘Hazy Shade of Winter,’ the price of buttermilk at Walmart, ‘Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence,’ ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’
Another Week: Number 14
April is the cruelest month, Thai-Namite restaurant in Wauwatosa; Wisconsin congressman Bryan Steil: The hedgehog that roared.
Another Week: Number 13
Looney Tunes: ‘Porky’s Bear Facts,’ ‘Boston Strangler’ on Hulu, ‘Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,’ Jason Isbell in Garden & Gun and on HBO, ’The Sound and the Fury,’ by William Faulkner (Third Norton Critical Edition)
Another Week: Number 12
Woman finds husband’s mummified remains, ‘The Consultant,’ ‘Sin Eater: The Crimes of Anthony Pellicano,’ the best tortilla chips are Donkey Chips, COVID lockdown + 3 years, Jackson Browne and David Lindley.
Another Week: Number 11
More snow, another power outage, ‘The Midnight Special’ on YouTube, ‘Tár,’ ‘Hello Tomorrow!,’ ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble,’ ‘Kate Berlant: Cinnamon in the Wind.’
Another Week: Number 10
911 calls to report the Jupiter-Venus conjunction, A new bathroom scale, ‘To Leslie,’ Alex Murdaugh trial coverage, ‘The Naked Archaeologist.’
Another Week: Number 9
Instagram and Facebook verification fee, ‘Empire of Light,’ ‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,’ by Suleika Jaouad, ‘The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy,’ ‘The 1619 Project’ on Hulu, ‘Fire of Love’
Another Week: Number 8
A death in my family, Super Bowl LVII, ‘Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark,’ Mike Pence fights a subpoena, ‘Nate Bargatze: Hello World,’ Bing + ChatGPT = HAL 9000?
Another Week: Number 7
‘80 for Brady’ bad reviews, website spring cleaning, 65th Annual Grammy Awards, President Biden’s State of the Union Address, Hallie Jackson exits MSNBC, ChatGPT: artificial intelligence for what?
Another Week: Number 6
Shrimp Cocktail, NFL Conference Championships, Tyre Nichols killed by Memphis Police, ‘He Gets Us’: $100 million ad campaign for Jesus, Three Pines, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at the Fillmore – 1997, Branson
Another Week: Number 5
‘Big Little Lies,’ Félix Carvajal (Cuba’s first Olympic marathoner), ‘Vida,’ As We See It,’ ‘Shrinking’ — and, of course, snow.
Another Week: Number 4
Stable Diffusion art created by artificial intelligence, Super Wild Card Weekend, another shooting even closer to home, ‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues,’ ‘Vengeance,’ 10 years sober
Another Week: Number 3
A shooting close to home, Aaron Rodgers loses to the Detroit Lions, ‘Bad Sisters,’ ‘Physical,’ ‘Elvis,’ ‘Hard Knocks In Season: The Arizona Cardinals,’ ‘The Established Home,’ ‘The Lost Kitchen,’ Dr. Seuss teaches Critical Race Theory, ‘Welcome to Chippendales,’ ‘The Flagmakers’
Another Week: Number 2
NFL anguish, ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘International Falls,’ ‘The Menu,’ ‘Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter,’ ‘Severance,’ ‘This Place Rules,’ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Another Week: Number 1
William Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ movies ‘Moonage Daydream,’ ‘If These Walls Could Sing,’ and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ plus Melissa Villaseñor, ‘This Way Up,’ ‘The Big Brunch,’ and Southwest Airlines flight cancellations.