Although A Complete Unknown is not a great film, without limitations worth noting, it is more than solid. Its high points are outstanding, and it is excellent for sparking thought about major issues. You should definitely watch A Complete Unknown if you haven’t thought about Bob Dylan lately and/or you care about how music relates to cultural critique. However, I will suggest that the film should be more a starting point for reflection than an end point. 

Bob Dylan has been on my brain lately, ever since I began to write what I was supposed to be a quick and easy comment on the new movie...

What follows is a case study in media polling that we should not trust, but rather treat as our enemy. It makes a few points about health...

Like many of my fellow citizen/consumers groomed by algorithms that feed us our personal news, I like it when algorithms feed me stories...

Even if I can't stop tinkering with all the half-written posts I've started about our degraded country, at least I can give my respects...

(Part of a thread to share poems or poetry-adjacent writing, as discussed here .) We  cannot say how this cascading wreck  of complacent...