Category Archives: Culture

What Is The American Way of Life?

Lexington Green asks this question over at Chicago Boyz while providing his own answer. It’s a phrase you often hear but that rarely is explained. I wonder if it isn’t largely personal in nature and possibly dependent on your political proclivities. However, given the existence of the concept, I also feel that there are common …

June 15, 2010 – 8:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

Complexity

I sit on the Library Advisory Board for the City of Wylie and we had our monthly meeting last night. At one point in the discussions, it came up that a relatively minor technical problem had happened at the library and that it had taken almost a week to fix. In discussing this event, several …

April 13, 2010 – 4:36 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (2)

Bedroom Farce Review

K and I went to see Bedroom Farce last night playing at Theatre Three in Dallas. It’s written by Alan Ayckbourn, a celebrated contemporary British playwright. The Theatre Three staging is very well done and all actors seem to be well-cast. The story centers around 4 couples playing out pieces of the play in their …

March 13, 2010 – 6:33 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Review Of Amy’s View At Theatre Three

As part of our ongoing effort to seem cool, trendy and urbane, the missus and I went to see Amy’s View at Theatre Three last night as part of our season ticket package there. Overall, the show was a good one with some solid character portrayals by Connie Coit and Danielle Pickard. Amy’s View is …

January 16, 2010 – 3:37 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Suing People To Solve Your Problems

The story: A private swim club kicks out a day care group possibly because of overcrowding, possibly because of racism. Media fire storm brews. Said private swim club reinvites day care group. Day care group refuses saying “children are scarred” and “The children’s best interests are not being served.” Day care intends to sue within …

July 14, 2009 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (18)

Sentences Worth Pondering

“The plot behind the endlessly-long series of explosions that Megan Fox’s rack is forced to endure is impossible to relate or understand.” From Choire Sicha at The Awl, writing a review digital flogging of the new Transformers movie. Good times. I can’t possibly do justice to the whole review so you should just go read …

June 29, 2009 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (2)

The King Of Pop, Popped

Michael Jackson is dead. Which is strange because if there was ever a strange, girl-like pop star that I thought would live forever it would be him. He was a musical genius for 15-20 years and then an eccentric pedophile for another 15 or so. Quite a career. From the CNN article, Reverend Al Sharpton: …

June 25, 2009 – 6:46 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (1)

Unintended Consequences of Roe v. Wade

Conor at The American Scene has a post up trying to clarify this Ross Douthat editorial. They are both interesting reads. I find that any discussion of abortion, much like that of text editors (VIM Roolz!) and of religion, is dominated in large part by two very virulent, angry constituencies who typically try to yell …

June 11, 2009 – 6:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (3)

The Nibroc Trilogy

If you’re in the DFW area, you should take time this weekend and go see the first play in the Nibroc Trilogy currently being performed in the Theater Too space at Theater Three. The trilogy is being put on there over the next few weeks. It tells the story of a young couple who meet …

May 13, 2009 – 8:00 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (0)

That Popping Sound You Just Heard

That was the sound of environmentalists’ heads exploding all over the world because according to this article at the Telegraph, recycling might actually be contributing to greenhouse gases instead of reducing them. Heh. The internal conflict must be horribly dehibilitating. On an unrelated note yet still in the same article, we get this graf: Some …

January 28, 2009 – 10:21 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged | Comments (3)