Literacy 2023: Book 10: The House of Silk
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a widespread conspiracy in a story so scandalous it had to be withheld from publishing for a century
One Thing I Like About The Haunted Mansion
Sometimes it’s just nice to feel targeted.
Remembrances of Block Rockin Beats Past
Blindsided by the nostalgia bomb delivered by The Chemical Brothers
Subverting the Thing
Barbie, David Letterman, and the impossibility of being a mass-market radical
My Favorite Games: Half-Life 2
The video game that fundamentally changed how I think about video games
Literacy 2023: Book 9: The Skeleton Key
Erin Kelly’s mystery/thriller novel inspired by real-life puzzle books and the treasure hunters obsessed with decoding them
The Worst Jedi
Being tragically bad at video games means getting stories with bad pacing
Being Reminded of Sarah Marshall
Nostalgia for a nostalgic TV series from the early 2000s is making me nostalgic for a rewind to the early 2000s.
Where Did We Go Wrong?
Ongoing experiments in social media
How I Chose a Weird Hill to Die On
I was surprised by my own defensiveness about How I Met Your Mother, which has become my favorite sitcom. Includes my list of “essential” episodes, from my bad memory.
Literacy 2023: Book 8: Eerie Tales from the School of Screams
This new graphic novel is an anthology of five comic horror stories, ostensibly for kids but actually for me
Peaceful EV Feeling
I’ve been a bad evangelist for electric vehicles, but mostly because owning and driving one is almost never a problem.