New new obsession in the O’Connell household… WarioWare: Get It Together! This is the tenth installment (so the Internet claims) in the WarioWare series, and the first since 2018. My roommates and I have been playing the demo version just released (free … Continue reading
New family obsession in the O’Connell household is Bake Squad, Netflix original series hosted by Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi. It’s basically Milk Bar on TV, and manages to entertain all three (very different) members of the O’Connell clan. What I … Continue reading
Seen yesterday around the halls of an unnamed middle school in Virginia, a variation of some type of rain dance, visions of school cancellations frolicking about student minds. A few teachers’ minds too. Hurricane Ida, like all hurricanes (even when … Continue reading
Our neighbors to the north, the Baltimore Ravens, set a fantastic but rather dubious record this past Saturday evening. After beating my hometown team (that would be the Washington Football Team), the Ravens have now won twenty straight preseason games. Some … Continue reading
Most old episodes of The Simpsons I watch now entertain me even more than they did when I first watched them because if nothing else I get more of the jokes. They’re more relevant to me now, and I appreciate that. … Continue reading
Well, this is it… the true last day of summer vacation. Shoot.
Every live jazz performance I’ve ever been to, whether in a restaurant, a night club, a concert hall, etc. one thing is always true: people talk during the bass solo. Saturday night at Keystone Korner in Baltimore… no one talked … Continue reading
Last week’s broadcast of Math and Musings, in which I discussed educational policies for six or seven minutes (no, I did not solve all the world’s problems during that time) was probably the closest MAM will come to addressing “real” issues with … Continue reading
Major League Baseball is the whitest old man sport we’ve got, but even MLB sees the stitches on the fastball every once in a while. Yesterday I had the pleasure of seeing my two favorite teams in two separate contests, … Continue reading
Only a show as awesome as Ted Lasso could get away with airing a Christmas episode in the middle August. Without thinking too much about it I am sort of asking myself why. Did they film the thing a year or two … Continue reading