Limitless: A movie where some things happen
My last few posts for The Idler’s “In The Queue” column were enjoyable to write but a bit heady. I don’t really want to carve out the brainspace for a post that requires thinking. So instead of packing or cleaning or any of the other things I should do before I fly for the holidays … Continue reading
Food, foodies, and jerks
I love food. Mostly I love eating it, but on a good day I’m also capable of taking a great deal of pleasure in cooking. I’m not a natural cook, and I’ll fess up to letting my wife do most of the big meal preparation in our house, although that’s changed a bit in the … Continue reading
Bad swag
Novelty items are popular. People can’t help buying silly, whimsical merchandise if they think the joke is hysterical or their love for geekery is strong enough. I am no exception. I used to own a Kermit the Frog phone. If the items double as something moderately useful then so much the better! (I’m looking at … Continue reading
Broccoli robbed
If you read between the lines of my last few posts, you’ll notice that I haven’t really been cooking. Not only did I move from one ocean to the other, but I also started a glamorous new lifestyle — freelancing. By glamorous, I mean that it’s an effort to put on pants in the morning … Continue reading
Natural monsters
My recreational research of animals and overactive imagination means I often entertain the idea of the possibility of movie monsters being real things. For me this is my normal thought process and I don’t understand why everyone else isn’t more scared of this shit. Glow-in-the-dark cat clones are part of our world, what’s so off-the-wall about … Continue reading
What that drink says about you
On Saturday, I went out to a sort-of-upscale Irish sports bar in the Lower Haight to watch the Michigan State football game with some other alumni. Besides the fact that there would be other green-and-white-clad people there, the bar’s attraction was their bottomless mimosas. For $8, you could have as many of those little darlings … Continue reading
Parallel universes In which Netflix becoming Qwikster makes sense
Doing Two Things Is Confusing The year is 2000, Amazon, the burgoning internet book seller, splits off their new music department into a website called Nile.com. By 2011 every river has a .com address and is a commerce portal operated by Amazon.com. Over the next 10 years the internet is entirely dominated by single-serving sites. … Continue reading
Movie sign with Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I watched it on Comedy Central back in the day, and followed it to its new home on the Sci-Fi Channel in the late 1990s. Heck, I even watched the Mystery Science Theater Hour, which broke episodes up into two-part, 60-minute … Continue reading
The non-woo-girl’s guide to Vegas
My brother just got married in Las Vegas because he’s one of those pretty happy-go-lucky people that can do something like that without looking tacky or like an asshole or like a tacky asshole. I went to the wedding, of course, because he’s my brother and he owed me forty dollars. That was a dumb … Continue reading
Apologizing for the thing I can’t stand
If you haven’t heard, dear readers, there’s a new crap sandwich in town and this shit is gourmet. It’s served on fancy artisan bread with hand cut shoestring potatoes fried in truffle infused oil and a somehow snooty pickle spear on a bed of arugula. It’s Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” Upon hearing how bad this song … Continue reading
