Tag: historical frenemies

• March 6, 2021

  Wolves, Gods, and Betrayal: Barbarians on Netflix

  Sometimes Netflix recommends things that are “soapy and sentimental” to me, and I have no idea why they’d do so. Other times they recommend shows that are violent and gritty and filled with historical battle scenes, and I binge them. The German Netflix show Barbarians, in other words, might as well have been created for […]
• July 27, 2015

  …they haven’t torn down all the old buildings yet

  Last week I visited Pittsburgh for the first time. It was exciting and terrifying, a combination of business (an interview) and pleasure (a visit to family whom I have not, alas, seen in over a decade). I flew rather than roadtripped for the first time, discovering it was rather like an Amtrak train in the sky, […]