Best Movies Watched in 2025 . Since people seem to love year-end lists — from critics’ picks to people’s own music streaming results — Sky suggested I make one for the best movies I watched this year. Never did one of these before, but thought I could share some highlights that might lead some to […]
Best Movies Watched in 2025
December 11th, 2025 · 5 Comments · Movies
Tags: Arthur Miller·Benicio Del Toro·Brad Pitt·Dustin Hoffman·Edgar Wright·Gabriel LaBelle·James Mangold·Jason Reitman·Jerry Garcia·Jonah Hill·Leonardo DiCaprio·Martin Scorsese·Martin Sheen·Paul Thomas Anderson·Penny Marshall·Philip Seymour Hoffman·Robert Altman·Robert Redford·Spike Jonze·The Grateful Dead·Timothée Chalamet·Tom Hanks
Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 28 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures . There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57, colloquially known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word […]
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