Posts in the category “media”

Folks, Moon Knight is damn good.

I still can’t believe they spent weeks hyping first ever live performance of We Don’t Talk about Bruno so every kid convinced parents to let them stay up late on a school night and then they performed that weird We Don’t Talk About Bruno (Oscar 2022 Version) instead. Kids hated.

Okay. Doing a Godfather tribute in 2022 and being careful enough with the editing to avoid any spoilers is epic commitment.

We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.

Great New York Times Opinion article by Ross Douthat but it misses 2 biggest reasons:

  1. fear of always-armed, gun-toting public and
  2. tix + dinner + babysitter + $12 popcorn = car payment

I’m legit still annoyed by all the midi-chlorian nonsense.

I probably have twenty P.J. O’Rourke books on my shelves. Truly one of the greats. I’ll miss him.

Irrationally excited about the return of Law & Order.

It’s unfair that Someone Like You (from the 1989 Bang Tango album Psycho Café) isn’t more popular.

For ages the only copy I had of the Kon Kan 1989 hit I Beg Your Pardon was a cassette recording I captured from local FM radio, so any time I hear it I am reminded of Casey Kasem explaining how cool it was that they sampled the theme song from The Magnificent Seven.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.