Eric's Hangout

While I certainly kept myself busy and reasonably well entertained, 2025 was a real horror-show in terms of broader trends and political sto...

This list will have almost everything I saw in 2025 unless I really didn't care for it (both the plot and the acting/direction), and the...

I probably spend nearly as much time arranging and rearranging my lists (mental and written-out) for what I plan to read as the time spent r...

Things were a little thin on the ground in 2025, though they improved in the fall. Top 5 books: Zevin Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Pet...

It may not be a full blizzard (yet), but we are getting plenty of snow and it is quite windy out.  And it is cold.  We only had a few patche...

I think I am actually done, though I suppose I will get my wife an e-gift card.  I had temporarily forgotten that I had already bought Xmas ...

I've been able to get out and see a lot of movies in the past few months.  This may be approaching the glory years of the mid 90s when t...