tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56508272024-03-07T21:29:48.404-05:00Tosy and CoshRandom, Disjointed, and Self-Righteous Thoughts on TV, Music, Movies, Comics, Musicals, and MoreTosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.comBlogger998125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-38926811120138273252020-04-07T14:38:00.001-04:002020-04-07T14:38:29.141-04:00<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-58811288206748175512016-12-08T11:36:00.001-05:002016-12-08T11:36:33.034-05:00Parenting TipsPosting for the first time in a while to share some parenting advice.
So
last year, one of my twin daughters mocked a handicapped kid at school, grabbed a bunch of
boys’ crotches and laughed about it, called a classmate fat, said “you
have to treat the teachers like shit,” stood up in the cafeteria and
loudly said that Muslims should not be allowed to attend her school until “that whole Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-15431525569457465542016-06-22T10:57:00.002-04:002016-06-22T10:57:41.779-04:00The Kids Seem to Love ItSo while I may pop in here from time to time, I thought it worth sharing that I've a Tumblr now, called Moments. The basic idea is to share discrete, isolated moments from pop culture pieces that strike me as worthy of noting.
Take a gander, won't you?
Until WheneverTosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-29332877411692324742016-01-05T10:02:00.002-05:002016-01-05T10:02:10.240-05:002015 - Books Read<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-61420698217010729812015-11-12T16:24:00.000-05:002015-11-12T16:24:11.511-05:00An ExperimentIt's been a while since I wrote any fiction--and the last time I did so, it was writing some more of a novel I have been trying to complete for a decade. And yes, since you ask, to be such a cliche IS depressing.
My thinking now, then, is that it might be helpful to try something completely new. A fresh look and all that.
So--an experiment. Below are 10 opening sentences to short storiesTosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-11102041827038319702015-06-15T13:13:00.001-04:002015-06-15T14:12:40.831-04:00Taste vs. JudgmentAn online discussion with an online friend has me mulling the eternal question of taste vs. judgment yet again. Here is my proposition: That, at the extreme ends, at least, it is possible (and desirable) to make aesthetic judgments about a work of art's overall quality.
Here is one example. If I prefer The Godfather Part III to The Godfather, that is just fine. Taste is personal and I can enjoy Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-29855736227582555182015-06-09T14:12:00.000-04:002015-06-09T14:12:42.264-04:00The U2 Ranking - Songs of Innocence EditionIt's been a long nine or so months since U2's surprise album release, of which the unusual circumstances surrounding its sharing I will say nothing. And now, at long last, it is time to assess where the new U2 songs stand in my prior ranking of U2 songs. Huzzah!
A brief recap:
For quick reference, the complete list of (pre-Songs of Innocence) songs and ranking is here.
A look at the ranking Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-44626119971863060742015-05-08T16:25:00.000-04:002015-05-08T16:25:24.816-04:00A Blog Question Thing! Remember Those?Because I haven't done one of these in a LONG time, and because if it has the Terry Teachout stamp of approval, well, what more do you need?
PART ONE
1. What was your favorite book as a child? Curious George. I absolutely loved the series and carried around a stuffed Curious George wherever I went. I was a "follow the rules to a fault" kid for the most part, so maybe I admired the more Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-2240110240542238362015-02-09T17:32:00.002-05:002015-07-14T10:41:17.283-04:00U2 Ranked - The PostsBelow are the links to each of the posts in the U2 ranking project, collected for posterity.
Mission statement
#161 - #155
#154 - #150
#149 - #145
#144 - #135
#134 - #125
#124 - #115
#114 - #101
#100 - #91
#90 - #81
#80 - #71
#70 - #61
#60 - #51
#50 - #41
#40 - #31
#30 - #21
#20 - #11
#10 - #1
Songs of Innocence Addendum
Until WheneverTosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-39392415313672455642015-01-08T11:36:00.005-05:002015-01-08T11:50:07.219-05:00Missing Once and Again. AgainIn reaction to this post by Linda Holmes at the Monkey See blog, I had some thoughts:
1.
That I missed out on that Twitter conversation?
Kills me. I ADORED Once and Again, and often point to an early season
one episode where Rick explains to Jesse that, no, they will never be a
family again, along with a confessional scene where he describes telling
the kids that he and his wife were goingTosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-90973661081853576772015-01-02T18:47:00.001-05:002015-01-02T18:47:21.004-05:00Books I Read in 2014
Or
Not Enough Books
In reverse-chronological order:
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
A thorough, if at times too puffed-up, look at atheism and the
arguments for it (as well as a thorough swatting down of the arguments
against it).
The Silkworm – Robert Galbraith JK Rowling’s second detective Cormoran Strike novel, a delightful, if very traditional and straight-ahead, mystery.
Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-15058441388462830342014-10-21T15:20:00.001-04:002014-10-21T15:20:48.982-04:00Not Part of Its WorldYou ever admire the heck out of a book and not really like it? I grokked to the Hugo-award winning novel Ancillary Justice when it was lauded on my favorite podcast, Pop Culture Happy Hour. I can't recall which panelist was talking about the book, but the premise--the main character is one piece of a massive star ship's artificial intelligence that has lost its connection to the ship--intrigued, Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-14624856422082152962014-10-13T16:37:00.000-04:002014-10-13T19:54:31.552-04:00U2 Ranked: The Album ViewSo as I continue to look at this list I created, I wanted to see how each album fared - what albums had the highest-ranking songs, which albums had the least - that kind of thing. So - here are the albums and their songs as they ranked, in chronological order:
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The structure of the trailer, which seems to be a "we do not have a lot of footage ready to show" trailer, is brief clips from Pixar films illustrating the emotions of joy, fear, disgust, anger, and sadness.
When Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-71955441481597092272014-10-02T09:36:00.000-04:002014-10-02T09:36:03.950-04:00The U2 Project: A PostscriptFor anyone who has read any of the U2 ranking project on these pages - thank you. For anyone who may have read every single entry - may God have mercy on your soul.
To answer the immediately obvious question, I will publish - at some point - an addendum in which I indicate into which gaps the 11 new songs on Songs of Innocence fall. At this stage it's simply too early to tell - there are songs Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-11399858090801656122014-10-01T16:25:00.003-04:002014-10-01T16:25:42.538-04:00All Hail the (New) KingAs I'm sure I have mentioned NUMEROUS times at some point on this thing - but given the long hiatus and then recent U2 project, not recently, I am a big film score fan. I use film scores as writing music at work, if not exclusively, then close enough for government work, and am always on the lookout for new music. And these days, no one make me more inclined to check out a new recording than Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-78353566271677764372014-09-23T11:32:00.001-04:002014-09-23T11:32:21.077-04:00Fall TV Thoughts - GothamSo, because what the hell and why not, I will be sharing brief thoughts on new Fall TV shows as I see them. Note: I will not be trying out every new show. Life is too short.
Gotham
My initial inclination was to give this a pass, not having really been a watcher of any TV superhero shows in the recent past (I'm pretty sure the only episodes of Smallville I have ever seen were the pilot and the Tosy And Coshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466315384515717261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5650827.post-55441196750848242832014-09-19T10:22:00.003-04:002014-09-19T10:22:17.992-04:00Chattin' Movies<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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