Live Blogging Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Sixth (and Final) Hour

Last hour, we gave some overdue ink to Neville Longbottom, grieved for a spate of sudden corpses, and found out how Aberforth Dumbledore would have fit into Casablanca. Let’s finish this sucker off. Hour #6: p. 659-end (“The Prince’s Tale” through “Nineteen Years Later.”) –There’s an offhanded comment made in “The Prince’s Tale” by Dumbledore where he says… Read More Live Blogging Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Sixth (and Final) Hour

June 28, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Baumann and Burch, Episode 19: Podcast Yes!

Josh returns, covered in glory, to the podcast as we dip into Harry Potter. In this installment, the B&B B&B runs through its favorite Harry Potter novels. We talk about the universality of Ron Weasley, draft real life athletes to be Quidditch stars, discuss the pedagogy of Hogwarts teachers, get deep into our feelings about… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 19: Podcast Yes!

June 28, 2016 Tim3 Comments

Baumann and Burch, Episode 18: Jiminy Brisket

In the sudden tradition that we’ve come across, we’ve made a Top 100 Disney Songs list that you can see below. We bring back Josh to talk Disney with us, and we spare no thought for scope of this audio feast: we discuss whether Disney’s rollicking tunes or its introspective ballads are its most indicative… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 18: Jiminy Brisket

June 28, 2016April 25, 2017 Tim1 Comment

Spotlight (2015)

Dir. Tom McCarthy. Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams With about half an hour left in Spotlight – one of those two hour movies which is punctual about its length – Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo) is on Sacha Pfeiffer’s (McAdams) porch, calmer than he was a few minutes ago but still blindingly angry. He has… Read More Spotlight (2015)

June 24, 2016June 30, 2017 Tim2 Comments

Baumann and Burch, Episode 17: Ben Simmons Chosen by the Philadelphia Karma Chameleons

Matt and I don’t usually do podcasts based on like, what is actually happening in real life right now, but as NBA fans and draft nuts generally who fancy the Sixers and Lakers, we thought now was a good time to start. We review the NBA Draft: happy thoughts on our teams, lol-based thoughts about… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 17: Ben Simmons Chosen by the Philadelphia Karma Chameleons

June 24, 2016July 19, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Everything Off Balance

Jesus (as Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit tells us) shown everything off balance. In “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the Misfit expands on that hypothesis in his own personal testimony. I’ve found myself running that sentence, along with a close counterpart from just later in the story – “Does it seem right to you, lady,… Read More Everything Off Balance

June 13, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Baumann and Burch, Episode 16: Cranky Criticism from the Podcast in a Bottle

Matt and I take several tacks in an X-Men podcast for the rest of us. We review X-Men: Apocalypse in the context of the new trilogy and preview what might happen in X-Men: Tired Fourth Movie in a Series; we give some thought to the Claremont run in particular, and to the paradox of the… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 16: Cranky Criticism from the Podcast in a Bottle

June 12, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Baumann and Burch, Episode 15: Mentholated Buzz Lightyear Holidays

There’s a title that doesn’t have anything to do with the podcast, which is in fact a Top 100 list of the most ’90s songs in the style of our last post. Listen to hear Matt’s Eddie Vedder impression (prefaced by Tim’s impeccable freestyle), how emo everyone was during America’s most cheerful decade maybe ever,… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 15: Mentholated Buzz Lightyear Holidays

June 11, 2016June 12, 2016 TimLeave a comment

Baumann and Burch, Episode 14: Private Karaoke

Matt and I dip back into music and Top 100 lists for this podcast, in which we talk about the most quintessentially ’80s songs. Find out what Toto’s “Africa” and Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” have in common, why Matt loves The Outfield’s “Your Love” so much, learn about the magic of hair metal, and… Read More Baumann and Burch, Episode 14: Private Karaoke

June 11, 2016 Tim1 Comment

And the Band Played On (1993)

Dir. Roger Spottiswoode. Starring Matthew Modine, Saul Rubinek, Alan Alda The story of the HIV/AIDS crisis, especially in its nascent days in the late 1970s, is utterly terrifying. Until I read Randy Shilts’ magnificent tome on the first ten years of AIDS, And the Band Played On, it was hard for me to realize just… Read More And the Band Played On (1993)

June 1, 2016June 30, 2017 TimLeave a comment