Siamese “Cats”

When one is trapped in self-quarantine, I find that one's TV watching tastes tend to veer toward the stupid. Ozark and Killing Eve are great shows, but every time I sit down down to watch them, they just feel so heavy. I've decided to just go with this feeling, so…

Attention Whoring

I once knew someone who thought that anything anyone posted on social media was just "attention whoring." Pictures of a baby? Fishing for likes. Pictures of a cat? Fishing for likes, and also why cats. And let's not even get into selfies or Instagram or people who have YouTube channels.…

Social Media Detox

I recently read Cal Newport's book, Digital Minimalism, and this (and roughly a million other factors) have pointed me in the direction of making January a time for a social media detox. I'm making up my own rules for this, but here's what this means so far: No Facebook, including…

Publish

I am writing this on my personal laptop, which hasn't been turned on since spring of 2016. Even then it was only used as my TV, living its entire life on a shelf in my bedroom closet, with an HDMI cable connecting it to the wall-mounted TV.  The bedroom closet…

Hulu Commercials I Love To Hate

In these troubling times, I find it to be a real palate cleanser to watch old episodes of America's Next Top Model. 2002 was a different time! even haute couture looked kind of shiny and cheap, people wore white eye shadow without a shred of irony, and models refused to…