Sometimes I read my posts here and I think I come across as having my head up in the clouds or somewhere else. If you know me, you know that’s not me, at least not completely. But what am I to do? I’m blogging with a purpose (“Purpose Driven Blogging”). I agonize over pop culture …
Look, I’ll be watching every new episode of The Office this season. I’ll probably act kind of reluctant and surprised, afterwards, when I invariably say, “Yeah, it was pretty good!” That opinion will be slightly more predictable and slightly less reliable than Thefoodreviewer’s take on “Pizza Rolls.” I’ll end up buying the season on DVD. …
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Nitsuh Abebe’s latest column for Pitchfork, “How to Be a Vampire.” In it, he turns the nostalgia talking point on its head, and reminisces over his approach to music in adolescence, “listening like a vampire, listening because I desired to suck something out of the music for …
Sitch rolls into the ambulance with Pauly at his side. In the house, Vinny and the Meatballs console themselves in that last vestige of family togetherness, the kitchen. Soon, they will breathe fresh air and reflect upon the futility of violence, even consider the subtle hints of their own surprising mortality, but for now, this …