Really looking forward to this. I used to love reading Holmes’ retro music pieces on Vulture, and his book Party of One was excellent too. He’s a delight, and he’s got an exceptionally deep well of knowledge about 80's and 90's pop music. I don’t remember anything about Sudden Impact or wondering who they were or what…

I mean, the material he was working with was not good. To his credit, my very favourite moment of the show was when he suddenly appeared on the boat and greeted someone (it’s been a while - I don’t remember what was happening now), by saying, ‘Hello, whore’. The dialogue was so...so bad. He was good on Fargo and he…

Incentivizing health...hmmm. I feel like there’s an example I could point to that shows this doesn’t work...like the one where scientists say, hey! for your health, please wear this minor annoyance on your face when you’re in public, and get this FDA-approved vaccine that will most likely make you sleepy for a couple…

I still can’t get over the fact that she didn’t text Kai as soon as Nicole bailed on the boat excursion to tell him to abort the mission. It would have been so easy to exercise caution there. 

Dottie totally threw that play. Baseball was Kit’s dream, and she wanted her to have it. Also, not for nothing, but Madonna was legit great in this movie. 

Lol, I get the assumption but not Oakville; Milton. Close though.

The last couple of times I went to Sobey’s in my city (suburb of Toronto), I’ve noticed scanning carts but I’ve always been in a rush, just picking up a couple of things, so I haven’t bothered to try to figure it out. I bet we’re going to start seeing those in more chains soon.

I’m in Ontario and a lot of our stores have quarter or loonie thingamajigs on them as well. I totally understand why, and think it makes sense, but I almost never use cash, so I rarely have either option on me. I just saw an ad for quarter and loonie shaped discs you can attach & detach from your keychain and thought…

I saw the link for the audio of her testimony on Twitter and listened to it before reading the transcript. As a casual fan who follows her on Instagram, I’ve often wondered how medicated she is, because she seems so...disconnected whenever she posts a video. She talks so fast, with a high voice, and just seems so off.

Good call. I made Atlantic Beach pie, with a saltine crust, and the salt added such a great contrast to the relatively sweet filling. I could see it working well here too. 

I went to my first Bat Mitzvah last year (I grew up Catholic in a very non-diverse Toronto suburb), and they handed these out. Me and the woman I was with assumed they were some sort of mid-ceremony treat for the guests (or a much more fun version of the communion wafer), so we put them in our pockets to save for…

We watched it while carving pumpkins for Halloween, probably on a rented VCR. I remember thinking it was great, but I was only about 9 and my little brother was probably 7, so we didn’t have very discerning taste.

Honestly, I’d happily plan a Friday night around watching Tig Wolf. Sign me up.

I connect him so strongly to Who’s The Boss? (he played Tony’s friend Tiny) that I was shocked when I looked him up on imdb and realized he was only in 4 episodes. 

It really sounds like it - I read this oral history of Playgirl a few years ago and found it fascinating. Especially the disconnect from those who published the magazine and everyone else when it came to correctly identifying their target audience. The powers that be were really in denial that a large portion of the…

This scam has been going around for a while, at least in Canada. My dad fell for it last year because someone managed to make it seem like his next door neighbour was emailing him while she was away on holiday (which she was) and said she forgot to get her niece a birthday gift, and would he mind going to the store to…

I unapologetically loved Taylor Townsend and season four was a breath of fresh air thanks to her. She did for The O.C. what Audrey did for Dawson’s Creek. Both shows really needed the joyful shot in the arm that those characters provided.

I’ve had it on my list for a while and finally watched it a couple of weeks ago and really liked it. It’s definitely a slow burn, and it’s pretty low-key despite covering some heavy subject matter. But I really enjoyed it.

I grew up in a suburb of Toronto and my mom loved ‘real’ bagels that she’d had in NYC. The ones with the bubbly, shiny, chewy exterior and soft inside. My parents regularly crossed the border at Niagara Falls to do some shopping in the States and they always got bagels from Wegmans or Manhattan Bagels because they…

My local sushi place has been great when packing shrimp and veg tempura whenever I order bento from them. They basically divide the top of the rectangular box by drawing an ‘x’ across the top, then cut out the two longer triangles so that the top of the box is partially open and condensation doesn’t collect. Whether…