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The Good Place is Good
Okay, internet, fine! I admit it, I concede, I give in; The Good Place is a very good television program. We watched the first two episodes a few months back, and I thought it was kinda fun, kinda funny, kinda cute… but I didn’t really get why everyone was so bonkers for it. Last weekend,…
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Animorphs continues to be buck wild in The Ellimist Chronicles
This past weekend I finished rereading The Ellimist Chronicles from the Animorphs series. I remember this book being a stand out when I read the series before, but I wasn’t sure if that was due to the content of the story or just because it was the last of the supplemental books to come out.…
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Valerian and the Fantasy Sci-Fi
The previews for 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets made it look like a bonkers, over the top, sci-fi spectacle. My wife and I finally got around to watching it a week ago and found out that that was almost exactly what it was, but it’s also just a bit more. …
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Music is a wonderful escape.
The world is in a weird place right. Well, I guess the world always is, but American politics especially are wonky. It’s been stressing me out, like, a lot, as I’m sure it has a lot of you. Anyways, I found a great escape this morning: I sat down with GarageBand and YouTube and learned…
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Shiny and Less Gatekeepy: Ready Player One, the movie
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, is a story that emphatically celebrates, to a fault, the kind of overzealous pop-culture indulgence that I love. Basically, the entire world has regressed to obsessing over 80s references to try to crack a puzzle made by an eccentric developer who created the VR world the populous retreats to…
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