Cultural Insomnia

Going to a review a movie a week.

Exploring contemporary culture through the lens of literature, music, and the metaverse.

Dispatches from the second half of a kaleidoscopic life

Pope Pius XII, 1950: “...the future of modern society and the stability of its inner life depend in large part of the maintenance of an equilibrium between the strength of the techniques of communication and the capacity of the individual’s own reaction."

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

anecdotes, fables, tales, advice, photography, questions, sentiment, and ways to get lost in the forest