Green light
Or: Some things I realized about men once I finally admitted I wasn't one
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Why I'm leaving New York
And what it means to come home
Listen to some audio fiction podcasts already
Tired of Netflix? Allow me to suggest an entertainment medium that I, personally, benefit from.
Just watch the early "bad" episodes
A TV show teaches you how to watch it. Sometimes, it has to teach you via episodes that don't quite seem to work.
In which Roger Ebert almost gets me fired
On unlikely friendships, meeting your heroes, and avoiding yourself on the internet
"All Too Well" is Taylor Swift's best song, and I will fight you if you claim otherwise
Okay, it might be "Blank Space" actually
What do we want from the TV small town?
On Letterkenny, Schitt's Creek, and the ways we romanticize rural lives
Life jacket
Or: I watched the Mr. Robot finale and had an existential crisis
From the cutting room floor...
A cut excerpt from my recent end-of-the-2010s culture piece
What's your favorite pop culture New Year's Eve/Day?
New Year’s strikes me as a potentially great holiday to build into pop culture — but it’s very rarely present in even TV series (which usually opt for Christmas episodes). There are a few “drunken New Year’s Eve” tales, but the spiritual and symbolic significance of one year
My 11 favorite things I wrote in 2019
(Not including all of the things I wrote in 2019 that you won't see until 2020 at the earliest)
Let's make tiny New Year's resolutions together
A few years ago, I made the New Year’s resolution to learn how to use chopsticks — and I succeeded at this incredibly minor task. The year after that, I set a resolution to learn how to shuffle cards, and… I haven’t quite mastered that, but I’m much