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.
Year in Review 2017: TV
There just aren’t enough eyes to go around these days. The rise of prestige TV, beginning (arguably) with Game of Thrones before exploding (again, arguably) with True Detective, coincides with the fall of the standard multi-cam sitcom.
Year in Review 2017: Books
A superb example of the epistolary format, Dear Committee Members fails as a satire only insofar as it succeeds as an accurate portrayal of academia.
Certain of Eventual Failure 