Pizza Hut Memories, and other things

Greetings, programs! Long time, no newsletter...which I am planning to start to rectify. It's been a while since I sent one of these out, mainly because life got pretty busy there for a while and because I still haven't managed to completely come up with

The Albums of My Life: The WHEN HARRY MET SALLY Soundtrack

When I was a kid and I first started buying my own music with my own allowance money, I bought nothing but soundtracks and filmscores. My parents thought it very weird, but I loved that music and I love it to this day. But as I moved into adolescence and

What Happened Was... (in memoriam, Tom Noonan)

Actor, director, and playwright Ton Noonan has died. He was 74. He had a long and productive career, appearing in many films and teevee shows and producing his own work along the way. But I would never have watched the remarkable 1994 film he wrote, directed, and starred in had

The Albums of My Life: 5150 by Van Halen

Here's a new series I'm going to be pursuing here on the Dispatches! The idea is pretty simple: these are just essays about albums that have been particularly meaningful throughout my life, for one reason or another. We'll be covering music of all genres.

A bio, because...bio!

It's time for a new bio! If your response to that is "I didn't know you had an old bio," well, that's one good reason for a new bio. My old bio, which has been on my main website for eleven years

[thinking while dipping the pen in the inkwell]

Dearest Readers, It is my hope that this missive finds you all, and finds you well. I'm hoping those things because in the case of the latter, well, I genuinely wish you all well! In the case of the former, though, it is because I have, after much

Coming soon

This is Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, a brand new site by Kelly C Sedinger that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when

John Feinstein on Life in the Minor Leagues

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #31

The Art and the Artist

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #30

"How Superman's Butt Saved Christmas": a fiction

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #29

"Shiny in the Black: A FIREFLY Christmas!" (part two)

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #28a

"Shiny in the Black: A FIREFLY Christmas!" (part one)

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #28

Newsletter

A Discussion of Middling Importance: How to Fix MASTERCHEF

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #27

Photography

If I just duplicated each of these photographers' gear, I'd be awesome!

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #26

Movies

"You don't need a stereophonic Blaupunkt, what you NEED is a CURVEBALL!": Some Personal Notes on Baseball and Film

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #25

Photography

"Let me explain...no, there is too much. Let me sum up."

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #24

Newsletter

Thoughts on my mother: Someday, we'll return to Hawaii....

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #23

Friendship

"Over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things...." For Robert, a friend gone but whose presence remains

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #22

Indiana Jones

If Adventure Had a Name....

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #21

Forgotten Stars

"We are mosaics -- pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words." --Anita Krizzan

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #20

The Stars and Stripes Forever

The Annotated STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #19

Newsletter

Sometimes life does its own thing: Recent goings-on

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #18

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei and Me, A Relationship in Four Works: 3, the Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars, #17

Newsletter

Sergei and Me, a Relationship in Four Works: 2. The Isle of the Dead

Dispatches from the Forgotten Stars #16