For many years I’ve been lucky to have an Allplay Jasper board game table. It’s a rectangular 6-person table with an inset and a 3-piece topper. It looks nice, yet it isn’t too heavy to move when needed. However, we’ve been talking about upgrading to an 8-person table. I’ve been flooded with ads and recommendations … Read more
We watched two excellent movies this weekend, but I can’t stop thinking about the second: Relay, starting Riz Ahmed and Lily James, is a truly masterful movie. I’ll start by saying this: If you enjoy gripping thrillers with one reveal after the next, stop reading and watch Relay on Netflix now. I won’t spoil anything … Read more
Do you like Ted Lasso, but you prefer American football to soccer? I have a show for you. Similar to Ted Lasso, Chad Powers started as a short sketch played mostly for comedy. Real-life quarterback Eli Manning dressed up with a bunch of prosthetics and pretended to be a walk-on quarterback at Penn State. The … Read more
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has truly changed the way I think about stakes on TV (and movies, as it’s essentially a 3-hour movie split into 6 parts). Whether it’s other Game of Thrones shows or pretty much any drama, the stakes of at least one of the plots are typically quite high. They … Read more
We watched the thought-provoking rom com movie “Eternity” over the weekend, and I have some thoughts (including that I really enjoyed it). The core idea is that two elderly people pass away within a week of each other. They are transported to a purgatory-like place (arriving in the version of their bodies that represent when … Read more
Megan and I are dabbling with the idea of moving somewhere within St. Louis. As fun as it is to look at Zillow and visit open houses to discover what we value in a home, I’m finding one piece of the puzzle particularly difficult to navigate: How to find the ideal neighborhood for us, down … Read more
A recent podcast (Good Hang with Amy Poehler) reminded me of a sentiment I relate strongly to: Time is the one resource we spend that we can never get back. It’s both a reminder of how I use my time and an opportunity for a hypothetical question: What would you do if you had a … Read more
I’m smitten with The Everlasting by Alix Harrow. If you’re looking for literary fiction with a hint of the Arturian legend and a slightly speculative aspect, read no further. If you’d like to know a little more, keep going. Within the first chapter or so of The Everlasting, you know a few crucial things: One, … Read more
Perhaps this is an odd question, but I’m genuinely curious. Here’s some context: I had no idea until recently why someone would put tape on their mouth while sleeping, but then I heard someone mention that it really helped their snoring and clenching, two things I do almost every night. That alone made me intrigued … Read more
Yesterday we finished watching the final episode of The Copenhagen Test, a spy thriller series on Peacock produced by and starring Simu Liu. The show starts with the lead character given a tough choice in a flashback: save a foreign child or save a woman from his country (whom he has been ordered to save). … Read more