He’ll always be Henry Miller to me, but Tremors is a fantastically fun movie that I will always watch whenever I stumble across it. 

Now, in a rare one of these that actually might justify the people involved getting a little annoyed

He notoriously concluded the note with a recipe for cinnamon rolls: “ps. In case you’re searching for a holiday-inspired breakfast, these Pizza Dough Cinnamon Rolls are a fan favorite.”

despite living in a world where Netflix and its streaming ilk are hunched over, like beasts, still guzzling down the neck-meat of the classic video store.

The Duffer Brothers are set to develop it as a series at Netflix, following the conclusion of Stranger Things

I finished Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire while I was on vacation last week. Almost 1,000 pages long, it reads fast, like all of the Kingsbridge books, a series of historical fiction that all take place in the fictional English cathedral town of Kingsbridge. What I like about them is they are equally plot- and…

I have a red Swingline at work that I am definitely going to steal if I ever leave this job.

That’s been most KMarts since... probably the Bush era, at least. (Also the Ross Dress for Less in my hometown, but I’ve been to others that aren’t quite as dire). I remember a few years ago there was a photo making the social media rounds of a VHS tape of some 1990s Disney movie still wrapped in yellowing shrink wrap…

I’m currently reading David Gerard’s Attack of the 50-Foot Blockchain. Gerard hates cryptocurrency, and so do I, so it’s a fun read.

I watched most of the true crime media around this case, because I just found it so baffling, and you can really see the journey Lynn Roy took. In the Dateline episode she’s still in full “lock that bitch UNDER the jail” mode, but by the time they made the HBO series she seems more resigned and sad. At one point she…

Stupidly, I guess, I always assumed Grohl was the Foo Fighters’ drummer, since he was the drummer for Nirvana. It’s rare for the drummer to front a band, but not impossible. (Andy Sturmer in Jellyfish is the first one that pops into my head.)

Does he feed them to the snails?!

And then there was that brief period where the usual pop culture contrarians tried to be all “Actually, the second season of True Detective was good”, and got laughed off the internet.

I feel like it was more an Obama’s first term-era thing? That lasted for like, 2 minutes. Mostly it was just people putting printouts of his face on every object in a co-worker’s cubicle. It was something you’d see on Tumblr a lot.

What does he know from the Old West that he didn’t learn from other people?

Oh, this worked out real well for Terry Hobbs when he sued The Dixie Chicks. It didn’t blow up in his face and make him look like the most likely suspect to have murdered the WM3 victims. Being deposed under oath has never gone wrong for anyone!

I’m almost done with I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins. I’m a bit fuzzy on how “fictional” this book is, as the POV character shares the author’s name and much of her background? I like it, although sometimes people sound like they’re reading the Wikipedia article for “Oregon Trail Generation”…

I just got the audio version of that with my new credit and am looking forward to it.

I thought he was a really good Joe Pitt, to the point where I sometimes forget Patrick Wilson isn’t actually a gay Mormon. Like, when I see he’s in a movie I always think “it’s that gay Mormon dude” for a split-second before my brain auto-corrects.

Not completely ruling out a theory is not the same as having proof that COVID’s origins come from a lab.