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About smellincoffee

Citizen, librarian, reader with a boundless wonder for the world and a curiosity about all the beings inside it.

Moviewatch, October 2024

Posted on October 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

This month was fairly quiet because my movie-watching friend was in Texas for two weeks. We wound up focusing a bit on horror. Killer Joe, 2012.  A young adult who is in big trouble with bookies concocts a scheme: hire … Continue reading →

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Selected quotations from The Anxious Generation

Posted on October 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

Gen Z became the first generation in history to go through puberty with a portal in their pockets that called them away from the people nearby and into an alternative universe that was exciting, addictive, unstable, and—as I will show—unsuitable … Continue reading →

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tl;dr

Posted on October 31, 2024 by smellincoffee

“[In Kurt Vonnegut’s egalitarian dystopia Harrison Bergeron,] anyone with a high IQ is required to wear an earpiece at all times that buzzes loudly every 20 seconds or so with a variety of noises designed to interrupt sustained thinking, thereby … Continue reading →

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October 2024 in Review

Posted on October 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

If you’re interested in reading about the building, here’s a page on it that shows how it looked prior to the “restoration”, as well as a photo of the Kirkpatrick mansion. It’s technically possible, but highly improbable that I finish … Continue reading →

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WWW Wednesday

Posted on October 30, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s prompt from Long and Short Reviews inquires: what superstitions do I have? To my knowledge, I don’t have any besides the strange compulsion to hold down the left shift key when I’m playing Civilization III, and tap it manically … Continue reading →

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Top Ten Tuesday: Suspense/Scary Movies I’ve Seen in 2024

Posted on October 29, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today’s treble-T is a Halloween freebie, so I’m going to highlight the ten most scariest/most suspenseful movies I’ve watched this year. But first! …the tease… The most exciting thing in my life at the moment is a five-gallon bucket full … Continue reading →

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Nonfiction November Kickoff

Posted on October 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

Although I’m planning on doing SciFiMonth in November, there are also two “Nonfiction November” events happening, and I figured I’d join in with hopes of giving my nonfiction reading a shot in the arm, since it’s been fairly overwhelmed by … Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist

Posted on October 28, 2024 by smellincoffee

Two years ago I read a Wendell Berry collection of essays edited not by Brother Berry himself, but by someone named Paul Kingsnorth. Being the nosy sort that I am, I inquired of Google who Kingsnorth might be, I knew … Continue reading →

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Our hearts are in the trim!!

Posted on October 25, 2024 by smellincoffee

Today is the feast of St. Crispian, which means it’s time to share some Kenneth Branagh w’ ye all.

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The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis

Posted on October 25, 2024 by smellincoffee

Most people encounter C.S. Lewis as a Christian apologist or an author of stories — either the children’s series of Narnia, or his fascinating “space trilogy”, which combined mythology, medieval cosmology, and character drama to good effect. His occupation, though, … Continue reading →

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