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…
I didn’t understand the way my boyfriend liked the new Star Trek movies until we saw the new Ghostbusters. As I’ve posted about before, Star Trek, especially the original-series movies, was a formative part of my childhood. I know it not wisely but too well. Contrariwise, as a kid, I…
I used to have a book that promised 1001 things to do. The title was slightly misleading: the authors counted similar activities individually. For instance, “start a book club!” and “start a mystery book club!” might be two separate items. They also often had the misfortune of requiring more people…
I did it! I got a copy of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by being patient and waiting until it was my turn to borrow it from Toronto Public Library. More amazingly, I avoided all but the slightest spoilers in the months between the premiere of the play and…
I haven’t seen all that many episodes of the original series Star Trek. I was raised on the movies, and I somehow obtained a book that novelized every episode of the first season. I read it as a kid. And, obviously, I saw “Amok Time” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,”…
I’ve noticed a weird thing about acting. If I’m a bit nervous before I go onstage, then when I get out there, I’m calm and fine. I’ve prepared for not being able to predict exactly what’s going to happen, and I’ve accepted that each performance has surprise moments. However, if…
There are dozens of online writers praising Rebecca Sugar’s animated series Steven Universe, which is feminist, queer-positive, and generally amazing. Allow me to join them. Steven Universe is the comic, sentimental, epic story of a boy named, what else, Steven Universe, who is the newest member of the Crystal Gems. Said Gems…
Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought to yourself in disgust, “The book was better.” Okay, now that your hands are all up in the air, wave them around like you just don’t care. And — wait, what was I talking about? Oh, right: and then settle in for that…
Like everyone and their dog, I got into podcasts through the first season of Serial, a true crime investigation. I’ve always been interested in true crime; at least 25% of my inability to fall asleep as a child was probably caused by a paperback volume of Unsolved Mysteries that made…