Nov
12
Episodes: Apocalypses in my phone
One of my favorite video game genres is the "tiny town you build in your phone" genre. I
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Emily St. James
Emily St. James is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in Vox, The A.V. Club, and the New York Times. She is the co-creator of the podcast Arden and a writer on the TV series Yellowjackets.
Nov
11
Episodes: The freedom to not
My first journalism job was at the small-town weekly newspaper my cousin operated. It was a place where the definition
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Nov
10
Episodes: The Twitter jokes you don't tell OR Room is not The Room
There's been a lot of discussion in recent years about proper behavior on Twitter, which once seemed to
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Nov
07
Episodes: All hail Thanksgiving, the best TV holiday
Thanksgiving is the best TV holiday.
I should make a caveat to that point. It's not the holiday
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Nov
06
Episodes: 7 weird things I learned about the Titanic from reading about it on Wikipedia
Rather than prepare you an Episodes on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (as I had been planning)
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Nov
05
Episodes: 12 places I could take my printer in the tote bag it came with
Recently, I hooked up a new printer. "New" is a bit of a misnomer. I've had
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Nov
04
Episodes: Architecture as history
Everywhere you walk in Philadelphia, the floor creaks a little bit.
This was true of the ancient, renovated row house
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Oct
31
Episodes: The scariest piece of television ever made
(We're talking about scary stuff this week, all right?)
In late November 1987, the city of Chicago was
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Oct
30
Episodes: On ghosts (and why they keep turning up in your favorite TV shows)
(We're talking about scary movies and TV shows this week. It's a good week for it,
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Oct
29
Episodes: The Thing, The X-Files, and why I'm drawn to horror
(Hey, we're talking about scary TV this week, why not?)
My mother would never say this, but I
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