Andrew on The Visual Poetry of Jumbo Wild
It’s not often that I leave a movie unsure of how to feel. In fact, the first thing I normally do after leaving the theater is to tell everyone exactly how I feel about it. …Read More
Author Archive - andrewsiegel
It’s not often that I leave a movie unsure of how to feel. In fact, the first thing I normally do after leaving the theater is to tell everyone exactly how I feel about it. …Read More
Spring Musings
What a privilege it is to be busy. I often take my busyness for granted, or even express my anguish for it in a series of indiscernible grumbles to anyone who will listen. Truthfully, I…Read More
100 Days
I don’t like countdowns. Almost every weekend in the winter, I stand in a starting gate somewhere in New England, listening to a clock robotically count down from five at the beginning of a race. …Read More
Martin Scorsese and The Importance of Visual Literacy
I think that one of our collective gaps in knowledge is the little understood skill of visual literacy. We mistakenly dismiss the ability to comprehend visual images as secondary to the ability to comprehend written…Read More
Willie Nelson and Why I Love Road Trips
I don’t actually hate country music. Well that isn’t entirely true, most of it is awful, but I do quite enjoy the country music of 30 or 40 years ago. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and…Read More
Quentin Dupieux and the Power of Supreme Ambiguity
A truly great word, in my opinion, has to meet a lot of different criteria. It can’t be too short, but it also can’t be too long. It can’t have too many consonants, and it…Read More
The Midnight Sun
I know you’ve all been refreshing the glog nonstop for the past couple of weeks, waiting in anticipation for me to post something. Probably longed for some of my sarcasm. How could you not? Well…Read More
Sportsmanship and The King of Norway
Nobody can deny that athletics play a huge part in our lives at Gould. My teammates and I spend an enormous amount of time training and prepping for our race season, so when it comes…Read More
Cadavers and Cold Weather
Oh boy, are we back at it. They certainly don’t take it easy on us, but that’s a good thing. Rest is for the weak, anyway. Let me share with you a couple interesting…Read More
Erik Satie’s Gnossienne 4
I love commuting between my house and Gould. It isn’t a long drive, but as it always is with commutes, I can do it without even thinking. Years of driving back and forth has committed it to my…Read More