Category: Arts & Entertainment

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)


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

Perfect, No Notes
My long-running frustration with finding the perfect tablet has reached the point where I’m blaming the tech industry as a whole

One Thing I Like About Captain America: Brave New World
I’m still happy that so many of Hollywood’s resources are being put towards weird genre mashups

Let me in now and it can be nice
Overthinking the idea of Longlegs as being horror movie drag. Lots of spoilers!

One Thing I Kind of Like About Longlegs
Longlegs is absolutely a case of style over substance, but that’s not actually a bad thing. Mild spoilers for the movie.


One Thing I Like About Hundreds of Beavers
The live-action cartoon is exactly the right kind of so-lowbrow-it’s-clever, especially when it’s acknowledging its own artifice










