Part II in a series — For some of you readers, welcome back! Everyone else, reason why the subtitle says this article is a sequel is that back in January I published this piece: I Felt Like A Dumb Donkey After Reading Obama’s 2021 Books List A year-end list of books for the rest of usmedium.com It seemed to resonate with Medium members because it would go on to become my top earning article ever ($87.69 and counting…

Very short list since this is such a niche subgenre — Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Thelma and Louise. Dumb and Dumber. All celebrated legends of cinema, but you won’t find them here in my list of top movies in the ‘buddy’ genre. Nope. …

Yes, it’s a mini-Thunderdome within a Thunderdome if you will — Thunderdome is a Fanfare series where our writers good-naturedly debate some matter of pop culture and then leave it to the readers to decide. Read each post and vote at the bottom! Mathematics and The Bible — what could be more appealing as the premise for a network TV series…

And even more fun to have contact with them — I know I write on here about TV commercials a lot (like this one and this one), but please bear with me just one more time as this article will only mention the above TV advert starring Donald Faison and Zach Braff once. Then I promise I will move onto…

Let’s have an academic discussion of that Yoda quote — It’s May The Fourth somewhere in the world by the time this gets published, so Happy Star Wars Day! First off, I just want to clarify that I am not a Yoda expert by any means. …

And other “woke” authors — I love having debates with my hubs on all sorts of topics, but my favorite discussions are where we are really diametrically opposed. …

And a few other things you didn’t know about Jonny Greenwood — Welcome to my third Medium article that mentions Radiohead! (Other ones are here and here.) This one though focuses on one member, whose name is not Thom Yorke, who is also the keyboardist (more on that later). So even though the Oscars are this Sunday, there’s probably less than 1%…