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Uncle Josh on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Christopher Nolan has directed a new version of The Odyssey. The movie comes out in July 2026 but the trailers have dropped and people are mocking it for its ahistorical costumes and setting. It was apparently filmed in Scotland, which bears little resemblance to the Mediterranean, and the costumes are not one would call historically …

Uncle Josh Sees the Northern Lights

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So the sun farted, for lack of a better term, and the intertubes were aflutter with the idea that people at lower latitudes could see the northern lights. The only real problem with the whole thing is that we’d have to stay up way past our bedtimes and maybe drive out of the city to …

Uncle Josh Wraps up 2022

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It seems like it has been another year of distractions and head-hopping between all my various interests and hobbies. I had really wanted to start a weekly column here on the blog and I keep thinking I should try again, but when I start to write the essays I realize I have very little I …

Uncle Josh looks back at 2021

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Highlights of my 2021: Got “evicted” and bought a house. Oh my God we bought a frikkin’ HOUSE Okay, it’s technically a condo but we have a mortgage I’m still not sure if I need to ask the landlord’s permission to hang a poster Our rector resigned from the parish Stephanie’s father had to be …

Uncle Josh Misses January

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How did that happen? How did a month just go by? I have been reading. I have been writing most weekday mornings. As far as blog posts go, January was sucked up trying to read, understand, and process I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. I keep reading it and re-reading it and the commentary …

Uncle Josh Goes Back to Ashland

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We survived our family gathering at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where we, as usual, watched 5 plays in 3 days. At least, three of us did. Between Two Knees This is a show created by the group The 1491s and it covers the time period between two events at Wounded Knee. The story is a …

Uncle Josh Ranks the Grinch

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Not individual Grinches, but covers of the classic song “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch”. #4 Straight No Chaser This ranking is most likely because of my general distaste for SNC. It’s nothing to have the bass vocal growl through the very bottom of the range without a whole lot of personality. #3 Moosebutter It’s …