Gen L
There’s some aspect of being human, some primal need for face-to-face connection and physical contact that no amount of DMing, texting, or phone calls can fill.
Let the Confetti Fall
Not even twenty four hours after the moment, thoughts of all the next steps had already derailed my joy.
Is The New Pope a Cubs or White Sox Fan? And Other Burning Questions
Knowing that a man who’s well on his way to becoming a household name internationally loves the same baseball team as you has to be a good feeling.
Negative Buoyancy
The pet clinics around me don’t even have veterinarians on staff that work with fish.
Five Games that I Somehow Still Haven’t Played
There are simply too many games to play, and they just keep making them!
Ode to Spring
The winter was long. It was bitter this year. Wasn’t it?
Eating Humble Pie
Call it shedding my “a pleasure to have in class” skin.
Thunderbolts* (2025): A Strangely Tender Return to Competence
What Thunderbolts* represents is faith rewarded, a return (even briefly) to a tradition of blockbuster competence that seemed lost to a proliferation of nightmarishly digital and dumbly unfunny slop.
What Does a Good Day Look Like?
Too often we are asking the wrong question.
Ten Years On
The room was eerily quiet as the students sat waiting for me to get ready, so I tried to lighten the mood. They all take this so seriously, too seriously.
