I finally started binge-watching The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series. I’d heard great things about it, but somehow never got around to watching it. Apparently, you can have six streaming services and still reach a point where you’re convinced there is absolutely nothing left on television. This is […]
How do you manage stress? People often ask about stress management, as though there’s some magical technique that will make the demands of life evaporate. Meditate for ten minutes! Take a deep breath! Buy a scented candle! Sure. But when people’s livelihoods depend on you, and people’s care […]
Doritos is releasing an all-new Lemon Pepper flavor in 2027. Lemon pepper. As in Atlanta’s beloved lemon pepper chicken wings, now apparently preparing to take up residence on a triangular piece of corn. I love trying new chip flavors. Pepperoncini? Yes. Jalapeño? Absolutely. Salt and vinegar? Bring on […]
I was watching Victim/Suspect, a documentary about people who reported sexual assaults and then found themselves accused of filing false police reports. The police would announce that the alleged victim was being charged with making a false report, as though the mere existence of a charge settled the […]
There are many ways to ruin your day. Forgetting your anniversary. Discovering your favorite show has been canceled. Finding out that the cookies you’ve been saving for a special occasion have mysteriously disappeared. And then there’s confiding in artificial intelligence and having your diary entries forwarded to the […]
What’s the weirdest movie you’ve ever watched? There are weird movies. There are surreal movies. And then there is Naked Lunch, a movie that makes you wonder whether the filmmakers were on drugs, whether you should be on drugs to understand it, or whether the entire point is […]
There are some things in life that I know I will never do. Run a marathon, for example. I have great respect for people who voluntarily run 26.2 miles. I also have great respect for people who voluntarily do other things I find incomprehensible, like camping, hiking uphill […]
No one likes performance appraisals. Let’s just begin there. I have written about this before, but apparently the universe, or rather House reruns, felt I needed another reminder. I was rewatching an episode where Cuddy is trying to get House to complete performance appraisals for his team. Naturally, […]
I was rewatching Season 1 of Slow Horses recently because Season 6 has brought back characters from previous seasons who apparently are Very Important People. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no idea who some of them were. This, by the way, is the problem with streaming television. When a […]
I have started rewatching House. Because apparently my idea of relaxing television is watching a curmudgeonly, Vicodin-dependent physician insult patients while trying to figure out why someone is mysteriously dying. It was recently ranked among the top 100 television shows of this century, which I completely understand. But […]
