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Superstore; A Love/Hate Affair
Be warned. I’m about to do something a little stupid. I’m going to take a network sitcom very seriously. A few hundred words from now when you go ‘Wow. This dude needs to get outside once in a while.’ just know that I did try to tell you. Superstore started on NBC in November of 2015. While it has never exactly been a ratings smash, it’s always been successful enough to get renewed each season and is currently wrapping up its–very funny–fifth season and has already been scheduled for a sixth. I came into this show fairly late, catching up via Hulu just before the premiere of the fifth season…
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Mafia and Truth; The Irishman and Lies
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank ‘The Irishman’ Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by: Charles Brandt is an enthralling work of True Crime writing. I read it during this past busy week for myself and sincerely regretted being forced to put the book down every time other work or obligations–this whole trying-to-start-a-writing-career-from-fucking-nothing thing does take work and time–would draw me away. Charles Brandt’s prose is better than adequate, it’s actually quite smooth and readable and is less afraid of real emotion than you are led to expect from the beginning of the book. Frank Sheeran is an endlessly fascinating character who–while clearly a criminal piece of shit…
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Why I’m Here
I’m here because books have saved my life. Literally. More than once. When I was in college and alone and life felt too heavy to carry and whatever future I imagined for myself seemed not just impossible, but laughable; I remember sitting down on a bench in a small green space and getting lost in The Diamond Age by: Neal Stephenson. An hour later, when I came out of that world, all my problems and everything I didn’t like about myself was manageable again. I could find solutions. I could find and achieve goals. The weird thing is The Diamond Age isn’t really even about those sorts of things. It’s…
