Author Archives: williamjcobb

Review of “Your Friends and Neighbors”: Season 2 Begins With a Bad Back and a Huge Splash

The inimitable writer John Cheever explored this fantasy plot back in the 1950s with his short story “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill,” but Your Friends and Neighbors is definitely a worthy reboot of sorts. Continue reading →

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“DTF St. Louis” Episode 5: David Harbour Deserves an Emmy

“In Episode 5 (there are many flashbacks) he confides in Clark an anecdote to explain how he got a ‘crooked dick.'” Continue reading →

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The Year Without a Winter Over, Wildfire Season Begins

“So it’s hard to convey or describe just how oddly warm this winter has been in the Southwest.” Continue reading →

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On Pekka Hamalainen’s “Indigenous Continent”: Finnish Historian’s View of Native American History

“Hamalainen’s Indigenous Continent is an impressive book, long and detailed.” Continue reading →

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The Year Without a Winter Ends: It’s Spring!

So it’s Spring in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Cottonwoods and Cherry trees are blooming. And Venus is bright in a dusky sky.

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“War Machine”: Glimpse Our Future Wars Against Invading Robots

“I can’t believe I watched that whole thing.” Continue reading →

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HBO’s “DTF St. Louis” Marches Toward Quirky Sex Fun and Murder

“He’s a portly Sign Language expert with money problems, a wife whose side gig as a Little League umpire turns him off, and a stepson who (at first) hates him.” Continue reading →

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The Year Without a Winter continues

Winter 2025-26 has been a seriously weird weather stretch worthy of the phrase The Year Without a Winter.
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“Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” Review: Our A.I. Future Will Be a Gilded Cage, Maybe

Hollywood is rightfully worried about how A.I. fakes, perhaps in the (near) future, could disrupt it’s movie-making biz: In the meantime, A.I. is all over the big screen: Gore Verbinski’s new movie Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is right up that digital alley.  Continue reading →

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On Maggie Gylenhaal’s “The Bride”: Bonnie & Clyde in Stitches

The only thing worse than Frankenstein remakes are Dracula remakes. But this one rocks.
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