Idiotprogrammer: Texas Literary Blog

Month: November 2017

  • Who will NOT be president in 2021

    Exactly 4 years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek article about who would be president in 2017 by figuring out who could not possibly win. (I basically predicted it would be Jeb Bush vs.  Andrew Cuomo). I had fun writing this article and I tried to take the exercise seriously even though it was just an…

  • Movie Recommendations for 1st Year College Students

    When I was  a teenager,  I watched way too  many  mainstream  movies specifically targeted to my age group. I generally hated these things.    Thanks to a decent art-house  theatre in my city, an intellectually adventurous  high school girlfriend, a new Blockbuster video rental store   and a brilliant film lover at my college, I had no…