Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

National Poetry Month, day 18: JRRT

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

This is a repost, but I’m adding something at the end. I’ve occasionally seen comment that JRR Tolkien’s poetry in The Lord of the Rings is generally weak, but from my perspective, it’s one of my favorite aspects of the book, … Continue reading →

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Roger

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

Sheila O’Malley re-shared her post on the anniversary of Roger Ebert’s passing today, and I thought, why not do the same? Here’s what I posted the day he died. I still miss his writing. There’s something about those Chicago newspaper … Continue reading →

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“Thy dawn, O master of the world, thy dawn….”

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

A repost, with some revisions and additions throughout, to accompany my review of NO TIME TO DIE, which is coming tomorrow. I wrote this more than ten years ago, and if anything, my esteem for ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, My Love (an Annual Repost)

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

 A few additions to this annual repost!It’s time for my annual repost of Just Some Of The Ways The Wife Has Made Me Happy Over The Years, on the occasion of her birthday! Obviously this past year has been particularly … Continue reading →

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Godspeed, John Glenn!

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

(A repost from exactly ten years ago, because today is the SIXTIETH anniversary of John Glenn’s flight on Friendship 7! I’ve fixed a bit of wording and removed a dead link.) Sixty years ago today, astronaut John Glenn launched in … Continue reading →

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No, John Williams did NOT rip off Dvorak.

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

UPDATE 2/18/2022: Broken link fixed. REPOSTING 2/16/2022 because…see addendum to text. UPDATE 2/7/19: This post, for some reason, must rank highly on some Google search index or something, because it’s been a relatively consistent driver of traffic to this blog ever since … Continue reading →

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From the Books: Mike Royko

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Kelly Sedinger

A repost, because somehow the subject of Mike Royko came up on Twitter. For many years he was my father’s favorite columnist. I remember him handing me the Opinion section more than a few times, saying, “Royko’s got a good … Continue reading →

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The Past harmonizes: 11/22/63, by Stephen King

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

(Re-upping this one after a discussion of Stephen King on Twitter, and specifically this book, made me remember this post!)   One odd bit of Star Trek lore that I didn’t know about until I read one of William Shatner’s … Continue reading →

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A possible technical change….

Posted on October 2, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

 So, as social media companies exercise more and more control over the content users post, and as those companies employ algorithms that are more and more quixotic in their moderation (I’ve seen people put into Facebook jail for using normal … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Kelly Sedinger

The fifth episode of the great Carl Sagan show Cosmos is titled “Blues for a Red Planet”. The episode focuses on Mars: a history of the chase for life on Mars, the clash between the fictional Mars (and the one fervently … Continue reading →

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