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 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).
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.’
Another Week: Number 109
Trump is back. Sam Kuffel is gone. FEMA is next. Plus: ‘Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg’ (2024), ‘Roy Wood Jr.: Lonely Flowers’ (2025), and ‘A Real Pain’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 108
Construction in the cold, split guitar pinky, coyote at Aldi, and one year without Amy. Also: the Australian Open and ‘Unstoppable’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 107
Snow shoveling and walking opens up the airways and alleviates pain. Also: the Los Angeles wildfires and ‘Good News’ (1947).
Another Week: Number 106
Happy New Year horseshit, reincarnated children, ‘All Fours’ by Miranda July, and Season 2 of ‘Bad Sisters.’
Another Week: Number 105
More rumbling noises — ‘The Hum’? Samantha Brown, Christmas unease, William Faulkner’s ‘Sanctuary,‘ Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Suspicion’ (1941), and ‘Double Jeopardy’ (1999).
Another Week: Number 104
Outerwear makes all the difference, neighborhood Trump compounds, new glasses are ordered, the Emirates NBA Cup 2024, and holiday pretzel cabins.
Another Week: Number 103
It’s too cold and dark for gardening and there are strange rumblings. Plus, graphic designer Allan Peters: ‘Do Not Let Fear Be Your Master,’ and ‘Sugarcane’(2024).
Another Week: Number 102
Hair and nails over 50, Cyber Monday deals, ‘My Effin’ Life,’ by Geddy Lee, ‘Cape Fear’ (1962), ‘Jim Gaffigan: The Skinny’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 101
My monk lifestyle, headlight variety, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ (2024), ‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’ (2024), ‘Tender Mercies’ (1983), ‘The Story of Louis Pasteur’ (1936).
Another Week: Number 100
Disappointment awaits, Larry wants my Land’s End jacket, Wisconsin Badgers Women’s Volleyball, ‘The West’ (1996 documentary miniseries), ‘Joan Baez: I Am a Noise’ (2023)
Another Week: Number 99
Living with our choices, Jessica Lang on ‘WTF’ and in ‘The Great Lillian Hall,’ Johnny Cash: ‘Man in Black – Live in Denmark 1971’
Another Week: Number 98
Buy AirPods, people. Plus: ‘Cool Hand Luke’ (1967), ‘So Rugged and Mountainous,’ by Will Bagley, Election 2024: America’s cancer is back, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking,’ by Joan Didion.
Another Week: Number 97
A new home fragrance solution, Donald J. Trump degenerates further in campaign’s last week, Halloween 2024.
Another Week: Number 96
Imagination gains elasticity. Canvassing and voting. Tim Walz rally in Racine. ‘John McGivern’s Main Streets’ (with Emmy Fink). Michelle Obama’s speech in Kalamazoo. ‘His Three Daughters’ (2023).
Another Week: Number 95
NFL overdose. Trump sways to music for 39 minutes, calls for military action against Democrats, and dislikes Google. Also: ‘Lincoln’ (2012).
Another Week: Number 94
Hurricane Milton follows Hurricane Helene and the GOP disinformation machine goes into high gear. Also: ‘Big’ (1988) and ‘Funny Girl’ (1968).
Another Week: Number 93
Gregg Allman song in a Crown Royal commercial. Trump is a Batman villain. Also: ‘Bend in the River’ (1952).
Another Week: Number 92
More fall-like weather, Hurricane Helene, Mideast turmoil, Republicans stoke hate and fear, Chicago Bears and Indiana Fever lose, and a candidate is ‘mentally impaired.’ Also: ’Will & Harper’ (2024).
Another Week: Number 91
Another Trump assassination attempt, cable news commercials, ‘Ol’ 55’ by Tom Waits, ‘State Fair’ (1933)
Another Week: Number 90
Monarch butterflies and window repair, Bears beat Titans, Pablo Torre: Wright Thompson on Caitlin Clark, Trump/Harris debate, ‘Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 89
Crispy lawns, school and football return, ‘Impolitic with John Heilemann’: Nicholas Kristof, Jonny Lyons & the Pride at Paddock Lake, Chicago Bears on ‘Hard Knocks,’ ‘Faye’ (2024)
Another Week: Number 88
Dew points and skincare commercials. Also: CNN’s interview of Kamala Harris and Time Walz, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (1969), ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ (1975), and ‘Bridesmaids (2011).’
Another Week: Number 87
Some people acknowledge each other, some don’t. Also: Lexie Hull of the Indiana Fever, and the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
Another Week: Number 86
The construction noise at Mitchell School is picking up. I voted. I moved my hummingbird feeder. Also: ‘L.A. Confidential ’(1997).
Another Week: Number 85
Picnic with Amy’s family, ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes,’ Kamala Harris adds Tim Walz, ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ (1962), ‘Rachel Maddow Presents Ultra,’ Season 2
Another Week: Number 84
Crickets. Bears 21, Texans 17. The Killers at Lollapalooza. ‘Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants.‘ ‘As I Lay Dying,‘ by William Faulkner.
Another Week: Number 83
A power emerges from the stillness. Racine yard waste hurdles. Joe Biden endorses Kamala Harris. The Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.
Another Week: Number 82
I have petunias and salvias, but where are the hummingbirds? Also: the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Another Week: Number 81
A steamy, sticky week: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ (2024), women’s tennis at Wimbledon, yard work, the St. Lucy Festival, shrimp cocktail, and Donald Trump shot in Pennsylvania.
Another Week: Number 80
Fourth of July fireworks out of Apocalypse Now, Jewel on WTF, Presidential immunity and a sense of doom, the Tour de France and Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’
Another Week: Number 79
2024 is half-over — and sixty-four years after Kennedy-Nixon, the presidential debate tradition has deteriorated into utter absurdity.
Another Week: Number 78
The June heat wave, Trump in Racine, a drive-by shooting, and tornados. Plus, ‘Call Northside 777’ (1948) and ‘Black Narcissus’ (1947).
Another Week: Number 77
Summer is already passing — a high school graduation, Harry’s memorial, live music from Ivy Ford in Kenosha, and ‘Billy Elliot’ (2000).
Another Week: Number 76
Birthday party for my mom — plus Mitchell School construction, walking in slippahs, WNBA, and John Hiatt’s “Dust Down a Country Road”
Another Week: Number 75
These beautiful last days of spring are steeped in bleakness underneath. Plus: ‘Do the Right Thing’ (1989) and ‘Little Women’ (2019).