Another Week

Assorted items I have encountered over the previous seven days — movies, TV shows, books, websites, products, recipes, whatever.

Another Week: Number 83

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Another Week: Number 74

Another Week: Number 74

Time itself is the puzzle I’m grappling with — maybe calendars will help. Also: a Washington Post subscription offer I could not refuse.

Another Week: Number 73

Another Week: Number 73

A bird looks in the rearview mirror. Plus: ‘One Life’ (2023), ‘Apple Music Live: Kacey Musgraves,’ Billy Strings and Mark Ruffalo on ‘WTF with Marc Maron.’

Another Week: Number 72

Another Week: Number 72

I have amnesia, my country has constipation, and President Biden visits Racine. Also: ‘Brigsby Bear’ (2017) and ‘The Color Purple’ (2023).

Another Week: Number 71

Another Week: Number 71

White-crowned Sparrows have stopped by for their annual visit. Plus: ‘STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces’ (2024), and ‘Sergeant York’ (1941).