The console released before the Wii was the Nintendo Gamecube and it was a good little machine. It didn’t sell well and it wasn’t particularly innovative, but many people, including me, loved the thing. What’s crazy is how much more it could have been. Nintendo had sunk a ton of…
Since his death last Friday, I have seen so many reactions to the loss of Anthony Bourdain. People and magazines have covered it from his impact on sharing food to his impact on sharing cultures. People have brought up his accomplishments, like an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council to…
Is it possible to go home again? Are your favorite books of childhood actually as good as you remember? Or should they simply remain just that, memories, never to be revisited? I went back to my childhood touchstones to see. The results were varied and interesting. Chronicles of Narnia by CS…
It has been ages since I made an ice cream so I started getting the ice cream itch. Then I went to Disney during and EPCOT food festival. The result is that I came home inspired by flavors and jumped into churning almost immediately. And this is my first result.…
As Avengers: Infinity War finished and the theater lights came up I was already past anger and working my way towards acceptance of what I had just seen. There were parts of the movie that felt weak but overall it was absolutely at the level of average Marvel fare. The…
I’m so unprepared this year! Due to a lot going on in life, I didn’t have time to watch either of the semi-finals or even pregame with the official music videos! So that means I’m going into the finals 100% cold. I feel both unprepared and excited. I haven’t gone into…
Saturday was Free Comic Book Day! I feel like this day goes by without much note to the general public each year, and that’s a shame. FCBD is an happens each year on the first Saturday in May. Well, this year it was May 5th so if you didn’t go…
Today marks the return of Hulu’s prestige literary-inspired dystopian drama for its second season, The Handmaid’s Tale.I’m not here to shit on this show. It’s good, compelling TV. It’s important TV. It walks a fine line between being pointed enough to bring women’s rights into pop-cultural discussion while still remaining…
Sometimes there’s a strange serendipity that happens in culture and pop-culture. There are times when things line up, like when movies come out in perfectly matching pairs about such random things as asteroids, ants, volcanoes, androids, and mars. And then there are times when two things absolutely perfect for each…
Have you ever had that sort of confluence of media when you watch, read, or play a number of things and they all seem to play off of each other? One year I went for months when, not only was every book I read great, but they also perfectly paired…
This has been a weird holiday season. I feel like since the election last year I’ve been saying that for each Jewish holiday. It’s like Trump has codified a modern American bigotry. This Passover the 🙄 has ranged from the benign, well-meaning gentile telling me about their non-Jewish seder1 to articles claiming…
It’s that time of year again. As always, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox our television screens will be graced by the grand daddy of all wrestling shows. It’s WrestleMania! (Actually, the bit with the full moon and such is how we figure…
