“Overweight people have chosen food over appearance. When a fat person talks about a great place to get a burger, I lean in. They know.” Like Dad Is Fat, Food: A Love Story is a rehash of Jim Gaffigan’s stand up mixed with new insights. My husband and I recently took a road trip, we can never agree on music so we listened to comedy on Pandora and the “Seafood” section is almost verbatim from his stand up. It’s incredibly noticeable if you’re listening to the audio […]
“The only thing crazier than hallucinating a fictional videogame spaceship would be to blame it on a frosted breakfast pastry.”
I loved Ready Player One: it was unique and clever and while the constant eighties references got repetitive it made some contextual sense. I was aware that Armada, Cline’s follow up to Ready Player One, was not as well received as his debut but was willing to give it a try. Zack Lightman lives outside of Portland, Oregon in the near future. He spends his time playing video games with his friends or working at the local second hand video game store. His favorite game, Armada, is about an alien species coming […]
Pseu-Pseu- Pseudocide
Sparked with an interest in faking her own death to avoid student loans, Elizabeth Greenwood begins investigating how realistic it is to fake your own death in the 21st century. Playing Dead follows Greenwood as she interviews people who help you disappear, people who hunt you down and the people who (briefly) lived after being declared dead. Because, you see, there is no way to know how many people have successfully faked their deaths because you only ever hear about the failures. The man who gives her […]
Always wear a wire
“This reminds me of Miami Vice” Little did he know. Robert Mazur didn’t want to become a CPA so after college he got an internship with the Intelligent Divison of the IRS. After the IRS he became a US Customs agent and developed the deepest, most verifiable cover the agency had ever seen. His task was to infiltrate the Cartels posing as a mob man who could launder their coke money. That man was Robert Musella. He used a lot of ex-criminals (some he sent […]
“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love stories, couples start out as lovers and end as strangers. Coming-of-age books become stories of losing your way. Your favorite characters come back to life.” Madeline Whittier has grown up in a bubble; she just turned eighteen and has spent the last seventeen […]
In case you were wondering, Jim Gaffigan has 5 kids…
My husband is a big fan of stand up comedy. We’ve seen a lot of Netflix and HBO specials together- including the Jim Gaffigan special that introduced the world to “Hot Pooockets.” I knew Jim Gaffigan had a big family because he is currently capitalizing on it; between his Chrysler commercials and his semi-autobiographical TVland series it’s hard to miss. While Gaffigan has always been successful it’s clear his kids’ antics are helping write their future college tuition checks. “Raising kids may be a thankless […]
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