Yip Yip Devouring His Son
When the Muse chooses to speak through me, who am I to deny her?
Literacy 2023: Book 11: You Can’t Be Serious
Kal Penn’s memoir about his experiences as an Indian American actor in Hollywood and as a member of the Obama administration
All That Heaven Affords
Observations about the optimism of design and designers
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