One of my pet peeves with pop music is that a lot of pop artists are actually really good singers, but are frequently putting out songs that don’t serve their voices (and also have crappy lyrics but I guess that’s a separate issue).
Year in Review 2018: TV
Part of the difficulty of crafting a good-vs-evil narrative is that, for the sake of drama, evil needs to be besting good 2/3rds of the time without good being so inept and stupid that we stop rooting for them.
Year in Review 2018: YouTube
Okay, getting past the fact that peopleWatching still being distributed by Cracked is like seeing new posts on a dead person’s Facebook page, Season 2 is just as unabashedly uplifting as Season 1.
Year in Review 2018: Video Games
"Play Fallout: New Vegas," they said. "It's the best one," they said. And I, fool that I am, did not listen—until finally, on a whim, I added it to my cart to get free shipping.
Year in Review 2018: Books
I don't even know where to start. Perhaps it's enough to say that I have no interest in tennis and yet I read both essays on the sport with the same level of pleasure as all the rest.
Year in Review 2018: Podcasts
Though the one-off episodes of The Allusionist are usually enjoyable and interesting enough, the miniseries always feel stronger.
Year in Review 2017.2 HD Final REmix: Podcasts
It's getting hard to write reviews of podcasts that are consistently good and cover a wide range of topics.
Year in Review 2017: Movies
Though there are (I gather) some key differences between the comic and the film, the most important thing the film carries over is the idea that this is a story in a world we already know.
Year in Review 2017: Music
I was torn about including this. I didn’t really like it as an album and as a musical soundtrack it gives some sense of character but almost no sense of narrative (then again, I don’t know that watching the show would make things much clearer.)
Year in Review 2017: YouTube
Levni Yilmaz’s Tales of Mere Existence series is the kind of slice-of-life humor that makes you feel less alone with your own foibles and insecurities.
Certain of Eventual Failure 