A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Video of the Day: Rolling Stones, ‘Waiting on a Friend’

Tattoo You was the last Rolling Stones LP to impress me, and perhaps no song on it so much as "Waiting on a Friend." Mick ...

Quote of the Day (Alan Sillitoe, on ‘The Art of Writing’)

“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”— Alan S...

Friday, February 24, 2017

Joke of the Day (Jimmy Fallon, on Trump at the African-American Museum)

“[President] Trump went on a tour of the African American Museum with [Secretary of Housing and Urban Development] Ben Carson. Things g...

TV Quote of the Day (‘The Big Bang Theory,’ on Sheldon and ‘The Toad of Truth’)

Howard Wolowitz (played by Simon Helberg) : “Sheldon, what the hell are you doing?” Dr. Sheldon Cooper ( played by Jim Parsons) : “...

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Theater Review: ‘Yours Unfaithfully,’ Presented by the Mint Theater Co.

The New York Off-Broadway troupe The Mint Theater Co . specialize s in bringing to modern audiences plays and playwrights that, for on...

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MikeT: I'm a librarian (no, NOT a "cybrarian" or "information scientist" or any of the other trendy terms the profession has come up with), as well as a freelance writer/researcher; my political leanings are contrarian, much to the dismay of friends on the left and right, and so I will give anyone looking for my vote exactly what they deserve -- the back of my hand

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