Author: David R. Slayton Title: White Trash Warlock Narrator: Michael David Axtell Publication Info: Ashland, OR : Blackstone Publishing, 2020. Summary/Review: First off, I have to note that I absolutely despise the term "white trash" because no human being is trash.  That being said, the term here is used in what is an otherwise sympathetic portrayal of the protagonist Adam Binder, a gay man who lives in a trailer park in Oklahoma and faces the effects from poverty. 

The Eliot Burying Ground has stood at the crossroads of Roxbury's history for nearly four centuries. From early Puritan settlers and Indigenous history to Roxbu

Episode: The Wheel in Space Story Number: 43 Season: 5 Screenwriter: David Whitaker and Kit Pedler (story) Director: Tristan DeVere Cole Thoughts: This is Zoe Heriot's debut story (hooray!).  It's also a Cyberman story (booooo!). This the fourth Cyberman story in two seasons, just over 18 months since they were introduced in The Tenth Planet…

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is no...

Alt: Scene from OLIVER with the title character asking 'Can I Have Some More?'

Title: The Sheep Detectives Release Date: May 8, 2026 Director: Kyle Balda Production Company: Amazon MGM Studios | Working Title Films | Three Strange Angels | Lord Miller Productions Main Cast: Live action cast Hugh Jackman as George Hardy Nicholas Braun as Tim Derry Nicholas Galitzine as Elliot Matthews Molly Gordon as Rebecca Hampstead Hong Chau as Beth Pennock, the innkeeper…

Episode: The Time Monster Story Number: 64 Season: 9 Screenwriter: Robert Sloman, Barry Letts Director: Paul Bernard Thoughts: The Master is back, this time posing as a professor working on research to transmit matter through light waves.  He's assisted by the capable Dr. Ruth Ingram (Wanda Moore) and the goofy Stuart Hyde (Ian Collier).  The Doctor and Jo visit the institute to learn about the experiments and amusingly the Master goes into hiding. 

Title: Vagabond Release Date: December 4, 1985 Director: Agnès Varda Production Company: Films A2 | Ciné-Tamaris | Ministère de la culture Main Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire as Mona Bergeron Macha Méril as Madame Landier Stéphane Freiss as Jean-Pierre Yolande Moreau as Yolande Patrick Lepcynski as David Yahiaoui Assouna as Assoun, Joël Fosse as Paulo Marthe Jarnias as Lydie…

The cancellations are the latest disruption to Sheeran’s Loop Tour after Macklemore was dropped from the lineup for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage during a Sept. 5 show in New Jersey and supp...

Public dollars fund Boston’s public schools. But many communities supplement with private donations — and those dollars aren't spread evenly across the city. Now, a Boston city councilor is calling fo...

For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 or...

Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’

Boston has a $10 billion plan to combat coastal flooding, but in the meantime, some say the city is a sitting duck.

“Ten Songs With…” is a new, irregular series of posts in which I explore the music of a group or artist I like but am only familiar with a small portion of their catalog.  Unlike my previous Deep Dives series this will be more focused, limited to highlighting – yep, you guessed it – ten songs. Ten Songs With ... …

Episode: The Mind of Evil Story Number: 56 Season: 8 Screenwriter: Don Houghton Director: Timothy Combe Thoughts: The Doctor and Jo visit a prison where they see a demonstration of the Keller Machine which removes the "evil" from a hardened criminal making him innocent and childlike.  The Doctor is rightly horrified by the device which soon grows a mind of its own and kill several people. 

Alt: Kermit The Frog & Miss Piggy on Bicycles. Kermit is standing on the saddle with one foot doing stuntz.

The week starts with a Dolly Parton tribute, then, surrealist nostalgia with "Amarcord," the first ever animated film, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" and a dash of John Waters with "Pink Flamingos"

Episode: The Reign of Terror Story Number: 8 Season: 1 Screenwriter: Dennis Spooner Director: Henric Hirsch Thoughts: The first season finale sees the Doctor grumpily trying to bring Barbara and Ian home but being off by several hundred miles and a couple of centuries.  Before they can return to the TARDIS they find themselves caught up in the intrigues of the French Revolution. 

Title: Eephus Release Date: March 7, 2025 Director: Carson Lund Production Company: Omnes Films | Nord-Ouest Films | Through The Lens Entertainment | A Major Production Main Cast: Keith William Richards as Ed Mortanian Frederick Wiseman as Branch Moreland Cliff Blake as Franny Ray Hryb as Rich Cole Bill "Spaceman" Lee as Lee Stephen Radochia as Graham Morris…

Author:Terry Pratchett Title: Snuff  Publication Info: Doubleday, 2011 Summary/Review: Lord Vetinari (with Lady Sybil's influence) forces Sam Vimes to take a holiday at Sybil's family's country retreat.  Of course, Vimes can't stop coppering for long and is soon investigating the murder of a goblin, and mentoring the local constable Feeney Upshot.  This book reveals that much of the other beings in Discworld consider goblins to be vermin, and there's a history of goblin massacres, and the son of Lord Rust is trafficking goblins into slavery.

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Title: Secret Mall Apartment Release Date: March 8, 2024 Director: Jeremy Workman Production Company: Wheelhouse Creative Main Cast: Michael Townsend Colin Bliss Adriana Valdez-Young Andrew Oesch Greta Scheing James Mercer Emily Ustach Jay Zehngebot Synopsis (via Letterboxd): In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way.

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