Aug 12, 2017 Best of Opus Web Development It’s Time to Adopt a Block-Oriented View of Website Content Management Think of a webpage as a collection of discrete, self-contained blocks of content — and edit it accordingly.
Jul 31, 2017 Best of Opus TV Nerdery Religion Star Trek Has Always Been More Religious Than Its Creators Want or Realize It’s a stretch to say that “religion basically no longer exists” in the Star Trek universe.
Jul 1, 2017 Best of Opus Movies As a Man, I’m Thankful for an Awesome Female Superhero Movie Or, some random thoughts about Wonder Woman, inclusivity, and how women are objectified in movies.
May 31, 2017 Best of Opus Personal Sometimes You Really Can’t Go Home Again The demolition of my childhood home and the impermanence of memory.
May 17, 2017 Best of Opus Music PWR BTTM’s Disgrace Reminds Us That Separating Artists From Their Art Is Difficult Art can be transcendent — but enjoying it in spite of the artist’s flaws and transgressions can be difficult.
Apr 5, 2017 Best of Opus Movies Finding Mono No Aware in Japanese Films These films typify “the sadness of things.”
Dec 31, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2016 2016 sucked in many ways. But there was beautiful music to be heard in the midst of the year’s ugliness.
Nov 19, 2016 Best of Opus Pop Culture Politics The Perils (and Positives) of Politicizing Pop Culture Pop culture nerdery won’t save the union but it could help us understand each other a little better.
Jul 27, 2016 Best of Opus TV Nerdery What might happen in season two of Stranger Things? Also, some more thoughts about why, exactly, the show is so powerful and endearing for me.
Jun 15, 2016 Best of Opus Music Religion The Church Needs Music That’s More Than Just “Positive and Encouraging” If the Bible has room for Job, Psalm 88, and Lamentations, then the Church’s music should have room for such content, too.
Apr 20, 2016 Best of Opus Religion Youth Group Nostalgia Can Be Bittersweet As I’ve heard more stories from folks my age about their church experiences, I realize how fortunate I was as a kid.
Jan 5, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 5: Honorable Mentions These songs may not have been in my top picks but they still deserve notice in their own right.
Jan 4, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 4: Noah, Pure Bathing Culture, RAIJ, The Soft Moon, Sufjan Stevens & U.S. Girls Sleepy trip-hop, atmospheric indie-electronic, religious experimental folk, harrowing post-punk/EBM, mournful folk & experimental electronic rock.
Jan 3, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 3: Kendrick Lamar, Lightning Bug, Luxury, Makeup & Vanity Set, mewithoutYou & Native Lights Incendiary hip-hop, soaring shoegaze, aggressive indie-rock, poignant synth-wave, thought-provoking emo & atmospheric rock.
Jan 2, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 2: Eons D, Carlos Forster, The Green Kingdom, Grimes, Holly Herndon & In Gowan Ring Soulful hip-hop, lo-fi psychedelia, ambient dub, soaring electronic pop, abstract electronica, and otherworldly neo-folk.
Jan 1, 2016 Best of Opus Music My Favorite Songs of 2015, Part 1: Alphaxone, Blackalicious, CFCF, Rob Clouth, Cold Showers & The Declining Winter Ominous ambience, funky hip-hop, pan-global instrumentals, crushing electronica, elegant post-punk, and forlorn post-rock.
Oct 2, 2015 Best of Opus Music What would happen if a song like L.S.U.’s “G.G.G.” played on the radio? If a song like this played on the radio today, it would result in outrage from multiple points on the cultural spectrum — though for different reasons.
Jun 12, 2015 Best of Opus Miscellany Grace Is a Bowl of Strawberries I can’t imagine food alternatives really stacking up to the simple-yet-sublime pleasures of freshly picked strawberries.
Apr 28, 2015 Best of Opus TV Netflix’s Daredevil Is a Sobering Story About the Tragedy of Evil Daredevil isn’t just a hero’s origin story; it also chronicles the tragic, sobering evolution of a supervillain.
Apr 3, 2015 Best of Opus Music Sufjan Stevens Sings of Grief, Death, Love & Forgiveness on Carrie & Lowell (Review) Stripped of his usual pomp, Sufjan’s latest explores his relationship with his troubled mother with grace, compassion, and brutal honesty.