Ken Ilgunas
- Jul 26
Mission Impossible kinda sucks, so consume this stuff instead…
Films Daughters of the Dust (1991, USA) This is one of the most surprising movies I’ve ever watched. It's about a group of...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jul 13
On being dull
“You’re boring!” In high school, a fellow student said this to me. “You never have anything to say!” he added. Some girls in the class...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 24
The most invigorating month of my life
It all started in 2021 when I got a strange email from a survival show called "Alone," inviting me to apply to be one of ten contestants...
Ken Ilgunas
- Feb 8
Two Months of Consumption: Why We Need Daredevils and the Problem with Pixar
Movies I’ve watched 18 movies in 62 days. If it was up to me, I’d be watching a movie a night, but two a week is not bad for a house...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 18
Must Great Be Bleak?
Every ten years, the British Film Institute (BFI) revises its list of the greatest 100 movies ever. A month ago, the BFI published its...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 7
My favorite films, books, and shows - 2022
Movies The White Ribbon (Germany, 2009) - Director Michael Haneke may be making the case that Germany’s descent into 20th Century...
Ken Ilgunas
- Nov 28, 2022
What I’ve consumed: November ’22
Movies I have a highbrow list of movies to watch almost five hundred movies long. In the last month or two I’ve consumed — with the help...
Ken Ilgunas
- Oct 12, 2022
The end of hiking and the bushcraft revolution
Humans have always walked, but humans haven’t always thru-hiked. (Thru-hiking is when you hike a long trail for months.) Our species has...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jul 29, 2022
On Rec Leagues
The other day I asked my wife, “If I could read all your thoughts, would I think of you differently?” We were having a picnic on a...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jul 13, 2022
This newsletter has no news because someone’s tugging my ear
[This is from my newsletter. Get these newsletters in your inbox by signing up on this website.] I’d hoped to knock out two of these a...
Ken Ilgunas
- Mar 25, 2022
On Newslettering, Career-Block, and Scottish Rubble
March 2022 marks the ten-year anniversary of my Walden on Wheels book deal, the thirteen-year anniversary of the creation of my blog, the...