Somehow, irony feels good in a place like this
My favorite thing about the much-parodied AMC ads
I am a functional adult who totally understood Moxyland
A spoiler-filled dive back into Lauren Beukes’s Moxyland, to reassure myself that I got it
One Thing I Like About Mickey 17
The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.
Literacy 2025: Book 6: Moxyland
Lauren Beukes’s “post-cyberpunk” thriller about a society that crushes people with class division and convenience
I Was Wrong About the New Reeder
Silvio Rizzi’s redesign of his excellent RSS reader into a unified hub for the internet makes RSS feel relevant again
The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it
Literacy 2025: Book 5: Starter Villain
John Scalzi’s satire of billionaire tech bros as James Bond-style supervillains
Literacy 2025: Book 4: Born to be Posthumous
Mark Dery’s comprehensive biography of the writer and artist Edward Gorey
The Only Thing I Liked About The Monkey
The new horror movie based on a Stephen King short story reminded me of when I first read the story, and not in a good way. (Spoilers for the movie)
Like the Before Times
My month-long experiment with a social media-free life
Literacy 2025: Book 3: A Man Lay Dead
Ngaio Marsh’s surprisingly modern entry into detective fiction
One Thing I Love About Paddington in Peru
I adored the third installment in the Paddington movies, where everyone seems to be so happy to be there that the joy is contagious