Another day, another dollar. Another year, another… yield of things I shoulda, coulda (but sometimes not woulda) completed. Let’s ring in the new year with a scorecard!
2016 has been a scary, shitty year for a lot of reasons, many of them political. But that doesn’t mean I can’t tally at least a few things on the positive side of the roster, if only for a morale boost. ‘Cause there are plenty of us out there who…
I am pretty full of myself and want people to like and praise me. Sometimes, that means I can empathize with cynicism about writing from a place of privilege, whether I’m writing fiction or essays. I see the argument all the time from white or male or able or straight…
Isn’t it nice to find yourself somewhere different, whoa-oh (Steven Universe, “Island Adventure”) A relatively large number of people I know say they aren’t able to get into Steven Universe because the plot feels too simplistic, which is fair: the series starts slowly and carefully, and it takes almost a…
When I was about sixteen, I was obsessed with Andrew Lloyd Weber’s hit musical The Phantom of the Opera. I’d seen it on a family trip to London, and to my teenage self, it was the epitome of epic: all the well funded special effects anyone could ask for, dashing…
They say that you don’t really know something until you’ve taught it to someone else. It’s true: despite growing up Jewish and going to Hebrew day school, there’s a lot about Judaism I didn’t know until I explained it to Boyfriend, who is not Jewish. Specifically, it never occurred to…
I don’t think I believed it literally, not even as a little girl. We chant it over and over, several times throughout each service on the yamim noraim, the Days of Awe. On Rosh Hashanah, it is written. On Yom Kippur, it is sealed. The verses refer to one of…
Gather round, haters! I’d like to tell you about a little something I call “why Pokémon GO is an OK thing for grown adults to enjoy.” Obviously, I’m biased. I’m a grown adult: I can legally vote, drive, and sign contracts; I am fortunate enough to be gainfully employed in…
Hello, everyone! I’ve decided life’s too short not to run around in capes and spandex and big-ass helmets that will probably make me topple forward face-first. Join me in my decision process as I decide to make a career switch to… supervillain!
Real talk: I have moral unease about pirating movies, shows, music, and books. Not because the corporate distribution systems are perfect — they’re not, and they definitely have neither the consumers’ nor the artists’ best interests in mind — but because the collateral damage to individuals and institutions I do…