Category Archives: Commentary

The problem with the playoffs is only one team gets a happy ending.

Posted on January 24, 2022 by ksedinger

I haven’t written about football in this space (well, not this space, but you know what I mean) in years. I stopped watching football regularly more than ten years ago, and now I only watch if I happen to be someplace … Continue reading →

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Live and Let Rank: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 2

Posted on November 29, 2021 by ksedinger

Continuing my Official And Correct Ranking of the James Bond films! This time we will go from Number 20 to Number 16. Our first entry contained the one Bond film I outright dislike, followed by several that just don’t do … Continue reading →

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Our annual Festival?

Posted on November 26, 2021 by ksedinger

Thanksgiving is over, and now comes Christmas! Every year I hear a lot of complaint that Thanksgiving is a thing that gets lost in the shuffle between Halloween and Christmas, and that Thanksgiving should be its very own thing with … Continue reading →

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SNOW!!!

Posted on November 13, 2021 by ksedinger

Feels like it took longer than usual this year, but it’s finally here! I reserve the right to get sick of the stuff once my traditional cut-off date, St. Patrick’s Day, rolls around (though for some reasons to be revealed … Continue reading →

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How to Anger the Twitter Gods

Posted on November 5, 2021 by ksedinger

I’m in Hour Two of a twelve-hour long suspension from Twitter because I broke one of its rules. The suspension happened very quickly, so obviously I didn’t manage to render my thought in poetic enough fashion to not trigger Twitter’s content … Continue reading →

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“I shall read you to the bitter end!” vowed the Reader….

Posted on October 22, 2021 by ksedinger

An interesting discussion erupted over on Twitter the other day, occasioned by this tweet: 'It's an insult to authors not to finish every book you start' – strong stuff from my excellent colleague @ruhawksley (I took 'A Suitable Boy' away … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on October 14, 2021 by ksedinger

I watched the Blue Origin flight yesterday, in which William Shatner joined three others in the very short up-and-back-again space shot yesterday in Jeff Bezos’s interestingly-shaped spacecraft. I have to admit to a certain amount of cynicism as I’ve watched … Continue reading →

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