When I was in retail it was the contemporary songs and any “rockin” Christmas songs that broke my spirit. “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Jingle Bell Rock,” your Maccas and Mariahs, yes. But also “Merry Christmas, Baby,” “Santa Baby,” and your Celines and Whitneys too.

Poirot and Marple emit waves of gentle, stylish Britishness that never fail to chill me out. I’ve started each episode countless times, but I think I’ve only finished about half of them, on account of the napping.

Once Upon a Honeymoon is pretty fantastic too

Listened to it on CBC Radio, laying on sleeping bags outside at the cottage, staring at the stars. It was perfect.

Having ‘homaged’ so many 80's properties, they’ve left themselves with a Season 3 that somehow combines Footloose, Karate Kid, Weird Science, Labyrinth, Short Circuit, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Big, The Neverending Story, Die Hard, Caddyshack, Heathers and BeetleJuice.

I meant literally exactly. As in figuratively.

Yeah it looks exactly like Earthbound. Good thing my SNES Classic arrived yesterday, because now I’ve got an itch to scratch.

Every damn day now is just alternating grief and grievances.

Somewhere, at any given time, there’s an unhappy working stiff humming “I Won’t Back Down” to himself, or a Hollywood road trip sardonically scored by “Into the Great Wide Open,” or a classic rock dad trying to learn the tab to “Refugee” in his garage, or a tipsy mid-western coed hollering along to “American…

All the conflicted anti-hero chickens are coming home to roost. Good and evil are apparently outdated concepts, and all that matters anymore is if you’re badass.

Could God fuck with the Jesus?

I find it impossible to skip the intros to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and American Gods.

The sheer volume of scripted entertainment out there has probably employed more actors than ever before, but truncated opening credits and squeeze-screened end credits have made non-leads pretty much anonymous. I love Legion and GLOW, but I couldn’t tell you who plays Sydney or Machu Picchu without looking it up. And…

No Tatiana Maslany for Orphan Black’s final season, either. But that’s got to be a timing thing, right?

“staffing issue”

I’m of two minds here. The adult plot of King’s IT has always seemed a little too Big Chill, but yeah, a group of teens or sexy young twenty-somethings would be weak. Maybe a focus on late twenties/early thirties post-graduate drift wouldn’t be terrible?

or some genius figures out how to generate endless free trials, and charges only that $10/month for access to everything.

This will be nothing compared to the day music software starts locking out all non-proprietary files.

... and all the region locks will leave Canadians with nothing to do but read!