A year ago, I was the only person walking through St. Stephen’s Green early on a rainy Saturday, my first morning in Ireland. It was the wettest, coldest August on record, with flooding across Ireland. Every Dubliner I met accused me of bringing Seattle weather with me. I loved it.

After my flight over from London [...]

My list of 15 books that left a lasting impression is full of science fiction, much of it very dark, and some of it apocalyptic. After ignoring the hype for a couple of years, I finally picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, only to become immediately annoyed with McCarthy’s pretentious, mannered style.
McCarthy’s writing is full [...]

Here’s a bit of Fry & Laurie.

I love that the Seattle Public Library stocks older BBC videos and DVDs. I also love Stephen Fry’s jacket.

Today’s haul:

Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
Mary Oliver: Red Bird
Frank Herbert: Heretics of Dune

Back-dated and cross-posted from Facebook, this is my list of 15 moves that will “always stick with me.”

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas)
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
1984 (Michael Radford)
Dreams (Akira Kurosawa)
The [...]