Reaching For The Stars, Vol. 112
Chart Week: June 5, 1976 Song: “Love Really Hurts Without You” – Billy Ocean Chart Position: #36, 10th week on the chart. Peaked at #22 for two weeks in May. It’s always fun to be surprised when listening to old American Top 40’s. As I worked my way through this countdown, and glanced ahead at the list of songs on…
Weekend Notes
Pacers Well, the Thunder showed up Sunday evening. As has been routine in these playoffs, the Pacers missed a ton of open looks early as they fell behind. The difference in game two was that I don’t think it would have mattered. OKC was absolutely locked in from the beginning and once they took the lead on a 10–0 run…
Playoff Miracle, Vol. 186
I have a very busy day, but still want to squeeze in some quick words about game one of the NBA Finals. It started about how I expected: the Pacers were sped up and nervous and when they could get shots, were missing thoroughly makable ones. The Thunder were also nervy at the beginning, but their defense found its footing…
Friday Playlist
After a slight lull, the music has really started to pile up again, so we are back to the thick and juicy playlists. “Celebrated Summer” – Hüsker Dü (Nods head.) Yeah, this is the good shit. “Did I Say Too Much” – The Beaches Serious Song Of The Summer vibes here. “Inland Ocean” – Matt Berninger With the NBA Finals…
NBA Final Preview
The NBA Finals have arrived. I’ve been listening to podcasts previewing the series all week, and reading everything The Ringer has posted on the topic. Since I know most of you are 1) far busier than me and 2) don’t care as much about the result as I do, allow me to offer a summarization of all that content: the…
Wednesday Links
John Siracusa is one of the most respected members of the Apple blogosphere. In these two pieces he lays the smack down on Tim Cook. Apple Turnover Apple Turnaround Another bonkers and amazing addition to the legacy of the Voyager project: thrusters that had been assumed unusable for over 20 years have been revived. I keep waiting to hear that…
Reader’s Notebook, 6/3/25
Taste: My Life Through Food – Stanley Tucci Coincidentally my hold on this came in just as his latest travel/food show premiered. It is equal parts autobiography and food diary of his entire life. He writes exactly as he speaks on his travel shows, which is either a good, comforting thing or annoying based on what you think of those…
Hell Yes ‘Cers!
Holy shit, it happened! The Pacers are in the NBA Finals! I gotta be honest, I was angry Friday morning. And worried. After the Pacers played like ass in New York Thursday it meant little to me that the series was coming back to Indy for game six. It seemed like the Knicks had figured out how to contain the…
May Media
Movies, Shows, etc Confess, Fletch There’s a reason it took over 30 years to make the next Fletch film. No matter who filled the title role, no matter how talented they were, they would be compared to Chevy Chase at the absolute apex of his comedic powers. After years of rumors and starts and stops and so many rumored actors…
Friday Playlist
This came together surprisingly well for it being a short, busy week. It helps that we are in Summer Music season. “Constructive Summer” – The Hold Steady Always good advice to build something in the summer. “Andromeda” – Preoccupations Not a bad song on the latest Preoccupations album. “One Million” – Rocket Other than “Cherub Rock,” I was never a…