Another Rian Johnson movie that falls short of its astronomical opinion of itself, Glass Onion was still somewhat entertaining. The charismatic cast, good scenery and pacing and interesting premise were held back by pedestrian writing, shallow “I’m so quirky!” characters and an ending that ran out of gas long before the credits.
Author Archives: Eric F. Savage
EFS Baseball Hall of Fame, Part 1
Greatness in sports is an evergreen source of fun, research and debate for most fans, and the recent election of (IMO) borderline third baseman Scott Rolen to baseball’s hall of fame has sparked predictably lively discussions. In my previous post I mentioned that I wanted a tiered Hall of Fame, so I’ve decided to start …
Baseball Hall of Fame 2023
I posted a hypothetical hall of fame ballot way back in 2007 and decided to do this year’s version before they announce the result. There are 28 players on the list, half of them for the first time. Scott Rolen – AlmostTodd Helton – NoBilly Wagner – NoAndruw Jones – NoGary Sheffield – NoAlex Rodriguez …
52 Word Review: Black Adam
The Rock is good enough at playing one role (The Rock) that we’ll happily see him do it over and over again, but he didn’t do that here, with predictable results. Like catered chicken parm or Avatar, it was not bad because of mistakes, but mildly offensive in how forgettable it was.
52 Word Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
A brilliant, crazy, fun, funny, surprising, heartwarming, bonkers movie that is about, and comes closer than possibly anything else could in two hours to answering the question of, the meaning of life. I might be permanently happier for having watched this movie, and grateful for the opportunity. My favorite movie in years.
Happy Blogday!
I started this blog 15 years ago today. I’ve been through various periods of activity and inactivity (I’ve posted in 12 of those 15 years), but even when I’m not writing, it’s very frequent that I think, “I should put that on my blog”. For some reason, even when I don’t do that, it gives …
Polyglotism: Part 0
10 years ago, I started looking at the available languages, with an eye towards potentially adding them to my toolkit. I narrowed it down to 27 and then didn’t get any further. I’m going to reboot this project on a similarly exhaustive scope, but with a more relaxed schedule (i.e. this is going to take …
Ranked: Things Not to Name Your Sports Team After
2020H1 Personal OKRs: Progress
As promised, here is my progress update on my OKRs. Without about 8 weeks to go, I’d say success has been good but less than hoped for. I can’t really pin it all on COVID-19, while that has been very disruptive I don’t think it’s really impacted these goals. What working from home for two …
Ranked: Neapolitan Ice Cream Flavors
1. Strawberry2. (Tie) Chocolate.2. (Tie) Vanilla