Lee Gardner
@leegee.bsky.social
Reporter at @chronicle.com, music nerd, lotsa other kinds of nerd too. Half of @essentialpod.bsky.social and all of @vgplusrecs.bsky.social. He/him
This isn’t “playing.” This is stepping off the front porch, landing in snow up to your belly, and questioning the life choices that led you to this moment.
January 25, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This isn’t “playing.” This is stepping off the front porch, landing in snow up to your belly, and questioning the life choices that led you to this moment.
P4k’s new business plan seems sound
January 20, 2026 at 5:10 PM
P4k’s new business plan seems sound
Chilly out this morning.
January 15, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Chilly out this morning.
Hey, Baltimore, the Charles Theatre Revival Series is screening Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood this Saturday at 11:30 am and next Monday at 7 pm. It is perhaps the greatest Shakespeare film adaptation ever made, edging the director’s own Ran with its vigor and shot-after-shot visual dazzle.
December 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Hey, Baltimore, the Charles Theatre Revival Series is screening Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood this Saturday at 11:30 am and next Monday at 7 pm. It is perhaps the greatest Shakespeare film adaptation ever made, edging the director’s own Ran with its vigor and shot-after-shot visual dazzle.
D. Boon died 40 years ago today. I still think about him all the time, in part because of some graffiti I came across in the men’s room at Big Ed’s Pizza in Oak Ridge, TN, several years back.
December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
D. Boon died 40 years ago today. I still think about him all the time, in part because of some graffiti I came across in the men’s room at Big Ed’s Pizza in Oak Ridge, TN, several years back.
Happy December, everybody!
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy December, everybody!
OK, my fellow Appalachian-Americans: Is mac and cheese part of our cuisine? I don’t believe I ever had it until a sleepover (with a family Not From Around Here) when I was a teen, and I certainly don’t remember it being a staple on holiday tables in East Tennessee. Not gatekeeping, just curious.
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
OK, my fellow Appalachian-Americans: Is mac and cheese part of our cuisine? I don’t believe I ever had it until a sleepover (with a family Not From Around Here) when I was a teen, and I certainly don’t remember it being a staple on holiday tables in East Tennessee. Not gatekeeping, just curious.
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band.
An excellent book about living under fascism, among other things.
November 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
An excellent book about living under fascism, among other things.
Not shoddy at all though.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Not shoddy at all though.
Baffling conference-hotel carpet du jour.
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Baffling conference-hotel carpet du jour.
RIP Peter Watkins. Not a super well-known filmmaker in this country, but watch the 53-year-old Punishment Park today and tell me he wasn’t a visionary filmmaker. Culloden and The War Game too.
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
RIP Peter Watkins. Not a super well-known filmmaker in this country, but watch the 53-year-old Punishment Park today and tell me he wasn’t a visionary filmmaker. Culloden and The War Game too.
Yet another moment when I find myself thinking, Are you dead? Cause you look dead. (He is not dead, thankfully.)
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Yet another moment when I find myself thinking, Are you dead? Cause you look dead. (He is not dead, thankfully.)
From Tough Breaks, @alshipley.bsky.social’s revelatory new book about Baltimore club music.
August 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
From Tough Breaks, @alshipley.bsky.social’s revelatory new book about Baltimore club music.
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Anas Al-Sharif with his daughter, who will now grow up without her dad.
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Anas Al-Sharif with his daughter, who will now grow up without her dad.
I’m at NACUBO. That’s the skeet.
July 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’m at NACUBO. That’s the skeet.
Not a big Bible guy, but I think about this bit from Matthew 25 a lot.
July 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Not a big Bible guy, but I think about this bit from Matthew 25 a lot.
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life
June 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What actor’s expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life