Month: August 2025

One Thing I Like About The Roses
The Roses is a much lighter and funnier adaptation of a story that doesn’t lose its edge by choosing to be sincere

The only way to begin is by beginning
A fan letter to Dropout for showing how you don’t have to give up your core values to be successful

The Genie Has Left the Bottle
Getting mad at an infuriatingly insipid AI video and thinking about how much of the bubble is genuinely inevitable.

One Thing I Like About Honey Don’t!
Honey Don’t! is the kind of independent, noir-tinged, straightforward detective story that just doesn’t get made anymore. (No significant spoilers)

Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: You Have To Believe We Are Magic
I’ll tell you this week’s two tangentially-related tunes as long as you say the magic word

Disney Destinations vs Disney Settings
A simple but easy-to-forget observation about theme parks and chasing nostalgia

Literacy 2025: Book 24: Hidden Pictures
Jason Rekulak’s thriller about a young woman hired as nanny to a bright child whose drawings reveal a dark presence hiding in the house

One Thing I Like About Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls has so many of the components of a good movie

One Thing I Like About K-Pop Demon Hunters
I never expected this movie to treat the question “am I in the target audience?” as completely irrelevant


Literacy 2025: Book 23: Heads Will Roll
Josh Winning’s slasher novel about a camp for a celebrity who’s in danger of being canceled… PERMANENTLY











