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  • Pride and Curb Cuts
    Monday, June 29, 2026

    Pride and Curb Cuts

    Nonessential Thoughts

    Simple thoughts about how LGBTQ pride helps everybody (but that’s no reason not to keep celebrating it)

  • False Grit, or, One Thing I Like About Supergirl
    Sunday, June 28, 2026

    False Grit, or, One Thing I Like About Supergirl

    Comics, Movies, One Thing I Like

    Supergirl is like putting Woman of Tomorrow under a red sun, but I at least like this version of the character. (No spoilers)

  • Paying for Quiet
    Tuesday, June 23, 2026

    Paying for Quiet

    Technology, Videogames

    Amortizing the cost of the Steam Machine across decades of having to put up with consumer-hostile nonsense

  • One Thing I Like About Toy Story 5
    Sunday, June 21, 2026

    One Thing I Like About Toy Story 5

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Toy Story 5 did all the right things but still didn’t resonate with me. But it has so many different kinds of horses!

  • The Season Finale of Widow’s Bay
    Friday, June 19, 2026

    The Season Finale of Widow’s Bay

    Television

    Thoughts on the end of season one (spoilers)

  • Pazuzu
    Thursday, June 18, 2026

    Pazuzu

    Pazuzu, Personal

    An ongoing tribute to someone who, objectively, was the best cat there ever was

  • Exhuma, or, 8 Feet in the Grave
    Wednesday, June 17, 2026

    Exhuma, or, 8 Feet in the Grave

    Backlog Zero, Movies

    The hit Korean horror/thriller movie is exceptional and unrelentingly twisty and expansive (No significant spoilers)

  • The Ongoing Story of Widow’s Bay
    Saturday, June 13, 2026

    The Ongoing Story of Widow’s Bay

    Television

    Thoughts about the penultimate episode and where the series might go next. (Spoilers)


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One Thing I Like

  • False Grit, or, One Thing I Like About Supergirl
    Sunday, June 28, 2026

    False Grit, or, One Thing I Like About Supergirl

    Comics, Movies, One Thing I Like

    Supergirl is like putting Woman of Tomorrow under a red sun, but I at least like this version of the character. (No spoilers)

  • One Thing I Like About Toy Story 5
    Sunday, June 21, 2026

    One Thing I Like About Toy Story 5

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Toy Story 5 did all the right things but still didn’t resonate with me. But it has so many different kinds of horses!

  • One Thing I Like About Backrooms
    Tuesday, June 2, 2026

    One Thing I Like About Backrooms

    Movies, One Thing I Like

    Backrooms is like if you explained creepypasta to a production company that didn’t know what it was, and then asked them to make a movie of it


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Tuesday Tune Two-Fer

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Every Stroke a Bucketful
    Tuesday, June 9, 2026

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Every Stroke a Bucketful

    Music, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes in an almost certainly blasphemous pairing inspired by The Wicker Man and Godspell

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Pick-Me Boys And Girls
    Tuesday, June 2, 2026

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Pick-Me Boys And Girls

    Music, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes for a baffling and a little dispiriting primary election

  • Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Songs for Pinky Ring Dude
    Tuesday, May 26, 2026

    Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Songs for Pinky Ring Dude

    Music, Tuesday Tune Two-fer

    Two tunes from Tune-Yards’s latest powerhouse collaboration with Boots Riley


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Books

  • Literacy 2026: Book 3: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow
    Saturday, May 16, 2026

    Literacy 2026: Book 3: Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

    Books, Comics, Literacy 2026

    A universe-spanning sci-fi take on True Grit tells the story of the last survivor of Krypton

  • Literacy 2026: Book 2: Strange Houses
    Friday, May 8, 2026

    Literacy 2026: Book 2: Strange Houses

    Books, Literacy 2026

    An odd detail in the floor plan of a newly for-sale house leads to a sprawling and sinister story about the house’s previous residents

  • Literacy 2026: Book 1: The Impossible Fortune
    Thursday, January 29, 2026

    Literacy 2026: Book 1: The Impossible Fortune

    Books, Literacy 2026

    Richard Osman’s fifth book in the Thursday Murder Club series


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