My old college roommate is by all accounts a very good and cool guy. He has a cool job, a family he loves, and he drag races and plays in the World Series of Poker fairly routinely. When he gave me a book on being a dad, I knew I had to bump it to the top of my book stack. Dr. Meg Meeker’s Hero didn’t disappoint. Meeker is a thirty-year pediatrician and has become something of a parenting guru who has written several books […]
Everyone in Clueless Loved Paul Rudd
Clueless is one of my all-time favorite movies. It’s fun and bright, the music is great, the characters are lovable. It’s just great. I never get tired of watching it. While I’m not the original targeting demographic (mid-30s guy into sports and comics), the movie has always appealed beyond its targeted quadrant (younger women). Jen Chaney’s As If tells the story of how Clueless came to be and takes some educated guesses as to why the movie is so timeless and entertaining to so many of […]
Too Bleak for Me
Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable, and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille Thus begins’ Dark Horse’s Noir. The book, as the title and the cover suggest, is dark. Dark Horse’s mixtape of thirteen diverse stories from diverse writers and artists fixates on one theme – people are awful. Contributors include such big names as Brian […]
So Fresh and So Clean Clean
I was vaguely aware that The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up was trendy a few years ago, but it wasn’t until author Marie Kondo guested on The Tim Ferriss Show that I became interested in “the KonMari method” detailed in the book. For the uninitiated, the KonMari method is Marie Kondo’s tidying and home organization system. A dedicated organizer for her entire life, Kondo developed what I would call a philosophy of things that transcends storage systems or practical tips for organization or storage. […]
Not in the Cards, Mon Ami.
A few years ago the pop culture and sports website Grantland (RIP) posted a highly controversial article about why Gambit sucks. There were a lot of solid points made in that article: why would a thief wear a fuschia outfit, why wasn’t he ever developed more than having cool-guy ticks (answer: Chris Claremont left X-Men before he fully fleshed out Gambit), etc. I fell into the other camp – of course Gambit is cool hero. He has a cool outfit (that makes no sense, admittedly), he […]
We Travel to Find Home
My encounter with this book is a happy accident. As I was browsing through Half-Price Books, I scanned through the yoga/stretching section and laughed out loud at the title of this one – Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It. That sounded like my kind of fitness book, so I bought it and brought it home. Weeks later, I finally got around to opening it up. A few pages in, I realized that both Half-Price Books and I had misjudged the subject matter. […]
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