A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Today is Sunday, September 22, 2019. At 10:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time, the temperature in my corner of Florida is 79℉ under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 73%, the feels-like temperature is...79℉. Per my computer's Weather app, the forecast high is expected to be 89℉, and the nighttime low will be 69℉. It is not expected to rain today, but this being Florida, we might get a passing sprinkle later. We'll see. Usually, by this time of the day, I'd have a blog post written and posted for you to read. Unfortunately. I stayed up much too late last night trying to watch not one but two movies by Steven Spielberg ( The BFG and Bridge of Spies ). And yesterday I didn't do any writing; I decided to try out a new computer game I bought recently ( Strategic Command: WWII: World at War ), a new game from Slitherine and Matrix Games that allows players to play through the entire conflict, beginning on September 1, 1939, and ending on September 2, 1945 as either the Allie...

© 1995, 2003 Capitol Records Hi, there, Constant Reader. Normally, you would be reading a product review or a topical essay based on one of my Quora answers, or even a personal reminiscence from the Land of Ago. But today is the 18th day of July (not a happy day for me, since Mom was in her deathbed in our Miami home four years ago and I am still trying to come to terms with that and many other changes in my life), so I think I'll just put together a list of Posts to Come and then take a break from writing for the rest of the day. I'm not sure when, exactly, I will get around to writing and posting any of the following reviews, but this is what is on my to-do list as of today: The Beatles Anthology DVD box set John Adams HBO Miniseries The Family, by Ed Sanders Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns - Inning Eight: A Whole New Game ©2010 PBS Distribution And, of course, I'll probably write about the 50th Anniversary of the Moon landing, the foibles of th...

Rick Atkinson's latest, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Volume One of the Revolution Trilogy © 2019 Henry Holt We at A Certain Point of View are always trying to offer you, Gentle Reader, a wide variety of content for your entertainment as well as, we hope, your enlightenment. As of late, we've been posting a potpourri of different types of posts, ranging from light, entertainment-focused questions that we see every day on Quora all the way to serious commentary about life in Donald Trump's America. We strive hard to keep things fun and lively, although in today's highly polarized political and social environment (which some pundits have come to call a State of Constant Outrage) this is often easier said than done. As you know, this blog's core mission is to offer reviews of books, movies, TV shows, music, and collectibles, and although each month you do get to see some of those, lately we've been delvi...