I work in the post office, and we were constantly doing Aliens. I say “we,” because there were more than a few of us who knew the movie back to front, and could use it to relate to some of the BS that was regularly thrown at us.

“This little girl survived with no weapons and no military training of any kind!”
“Well, put…

At the moment, I only have one streaming service available to me, and that streaming service is Criterion’s.

I’ve probably listened to Lulu Wang’s segment on This American Life, featuring this story, about a hundred times, and I am incredibly excited to be able to see it the way she wanted. Meanwhile, I haven’t seen Crazy Rich Asians yet, because I think it’s problematic, these days, to make “crazy rich” people into likable…

Don DeLillo, White Noise:

“Animals commit incest all the time, so how unnatural can it be?”

Our current president is proof of that.

In the first Thor movie, Mjolnir goes to Thor after he's been struck down by the Destroyer, so it's been "sentient" since then.

That’s why the Batman is a creature of the night. NIGHT.

Folding Ideas is my personal favorite.

His recent Elmore Leonard homage trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, & End of Watch) might be the best books he ever wrote.