The Unfettered Critic
GOOD BACKGROUND “NOISE” – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – May 2024
IT’S NOT AS THOUGH our TV is always on.
Granted, it’s active most evenings, as we watch a movie, or a favored weekly program.
But during the daytime…
Okay, okay—it’s on then too—providing […]
WHAT KIND OF FOOLS ARE WE? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – April 2024
“APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH,” T.S. Elliot wrote in The Waste Land. He was right, at least about the month’s first day, abused as “April Fool’s Day.” We’re not big […]
Who? Who? WHO? – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – March 2024
CARTOONIST DAVID SIPRESS NAILED IT with his recent illustration in the The New Yorker, titled “Two Baby Boomers Watch the Grammys.”
Two old geezers (Hey, that’s us!) sit on a sofa […]
WHAT’S IN A NOSE? “MAESTRO” – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – February 2024
WHEN WE HEARD that actor/writer/director Bradley Cooper was planning a bio-pic about Leonard Bernstein, we were stoked. Bernstein stands as perhaps America’s greatest conductor/composer, listed historically and globally among icons […]
Bands On Film – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – Dec 2023/Jan 2024
We have good news and bad news. Or, more accurately, good news and sad news.
We’re wildly happy that Jacksonville is home to the Britt Music and Arts Festival, and […]
Da Doo Run Run Run, Da Doo Run Run – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – November 2023
“This is dedicated… to the one I love…”
Or, more accurately, the ONES WE love. We’re thinking about “the girl groups,” teenage vocalists that had as much to do with the […]
A Helluva Town – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – October 2023
You know that television commercial that seems to get recycled every few years? The one where the old lady pitifully moans, “Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”
This isn’t […]
Four Score… and More – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – September 2023
Hi.
Terry here.
Paula has the month off—except that she rewrote, edited, and grammar-corrected this into readability, so, “Thanks, Paula.”
Anyway—recently I’ve been reminiscing about facts that seem, to me at least, stranger […]
It’s Not the Years – It’s the Mileage – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – August 2023
Forty-two.
Yes, it’s the ultimate answer to life, the universe and everything. But more importantly, it’s the number of years since we first met Indiana Jones—archaeologist/professor/badass, with a bullwhip at his […]
Look To the Skies – by Paula & Terry Erdmann
The Unfettered Critic – July 2023
(In which your Unfettered Critics attempt to convince Our Readers that meteorology can be a form of entertainment.)
“Sure hope it doesn’t rain on Ringo,” we recently took to saying. Our […]