Category: reviews

I mostly write about things I like. If I haven’t written about it, maybe I just haven’t seen it… or maybe I didn’t like it.

  • book reviews: rainy spring

    book reviews: rainy spring

    Ugh. I didn’t read as much as I should have through the winter, and yet now, maybe only because I’m still riding the high of enjoying my new ebook reader, I have been power walking through a whole collection of books. That said, very little planning has gone into my May reads. I have very

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  • media review: weird al

    media review: weird al

    I don’t even know what prompted it, but last night turned into Weird Al night at our house. I wandered upstairs to the teevee room and the Kid had started watching the most recent of his movies, “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” which I had added to our digital collection a while back when it

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  • flick: idiocracy

    flick: idiocracy

    I jumped on the bandwagon and last night I watched a flick I haven’t seen in almost twenty years: Idocracy. And, boy, does that hit differently these days. You’ve seen the meme shitposting, no doubt. “Idocracy wasn’t an instruction manual, guys!” At least people are screaming it into the void on my social feeds as

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  • media review: fallout

    media review: fallout

    Oh wow, I’m about a year late to the party but nothing says desperate for clicks like binge watching the latest streaming show and pumping out a ham-fisted review fifteen minutes later, huh? On the other hand, after my third playthrough of Fallout 4, dusting off the Fallout Shelter mini-game, and pondering if I would

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  • book reviews: may the forth

    book reviews: may the forth

    (…be with you!) It’s Star Wars day and I haven’t done much of anything intergalactic, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Worse than my neglect of Star Wars, I checked out a bunch of library books and in such a flurry that a couple have expired before I even got part

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