For the last few months, Hulu has been trying to get us to watch an original show called Death and Other Details. I’m glad we did, as I’m really enjoying the show through 8 out of 10 episodes. The show follows the mold of Knives Out, The Afterparty, and The White Lotus in that it’s … Read more
On Saturday morning I made the mistake of trying to open what I thought was a digital game on my desktop computer. Instead, it was a hacker’s software that accessed my Google account, bypassing two-factor authentication through some combination of saved cookies and my current logins, changed my recovery options to truly lock me out, … Read more
Every now and then I hear someone talking about how cool it would be if unicorns were real. Sometimes I am that person. Unicorns seem pretty amazing. But then I remember: Unicorns exist! It’s just that we forget about them because they exist in water, not on land. They’re called narwhals, and they’re amazing: Can … Read more
I’m currently working my way through the Beartown trilogy, a novel about a hockey-obsessed small town in Sweden. I’m gobbling up the pages, as the author constantly drops ominous hints at things to come, and I’m fully invested in the characters. For a book about a hockey town, Beartown includes very little actual hockey. That’s … Read more
Survivor is back! We’re two episodes in at this point–both clocking in around 90 minutes–and of course I’m loving it. We’re still getting to know this year’s cast, but there’s such a great variety of personalities and dynamics in play. Last season, Survivor switched to longer episodes, and it worked great. I think the longer … Read more
Every six months I update my top 10 favorite tabletop games list. For this list, I looked back at most of my top 10 videos over the last few years for games that were ranked 1 and 2 multiple times (for any type of list, most of which focus on a specific mechanism), and I … Read more
I recently watched 5 really solid movies that I recommend, but I don’t have a full blog post of commentary about each one, so I’ll keep it short and sweet: Orion and the Dark: This is a movie about fears, both those of the rational and irrational variety. It’s an animated film aimed at a … Read more
After a week of preparations (rewatching Part 1 and playing Dune Imperium multiple times), I had the pleasure of seeing Dune: Part Two at the St. Louis Alamo Drafthouse on Friday evening. I ordered the special Dune-themed hummus, which was tasty but very spicy. I thought the film was excellent. It is (with Part One) … Read more