music Featured Weekend 10: Madonna, Myself On the occasion of her 66th birthday, please enjoy my personal Top 10 favorite songs from the original pop icon, Our Lady Madonna.
celebs Friday Faves: Potpourri Pee-Wee, Lebowski, George Harrison, green tea... We're all over the place this Friday, so buckle up and let's go!
hip-hop Sunday Reads: Back, Back, Back Again Read about the dawn of hip-hop, the hellscape of Disney World, cooking chemical reactions and much more!
barbie Friday Faves: My Barbies, Myself In which I use hazy memories of late-80's/early-90's Barbies for retroactive self-analysis in giddy anticipation of Greta Gerwig's Barbie movie (out today!!!). Get into it.
movies Friday Faves: The Barbenheimer Paradox A stunning American retelling of a British classic, a sonic exploration and creative expansion, hot beef, and the best real-life/movie meme we've seen in years. It's Friday Faves!
seasons Just Spring Things Have some classic Hollywood schmaltz, a traditional Jewish soup made with schmaltz, successful TV reboots, and all Barbie everything!
tv Let the Sun Shine In Nurse your DST hangover with vintage gameshows, Oscar villainy, bizarre Swedish indie pop, and more!
tv Time Machine of Love: 1993 Journey back in time with me, to a golden age when movies were movies, music was horny but earnest, and cult TV reigned supreme...
links A Farewell to Vibes: 2022 Recap Linkstravaganza One last hurrah for 2022—a month-by-month recap of the year in links.
trends A Magenta Kind of Love 2022 is (finally) almost over, so please enjoy a true athletic legend on ice and any other surface, weird crushes on color concepts, nostalgic country-pop Christmas specials, a meal for the ages, and much more!
throwback 7 Things I Love From 1984 For my birthday weekend, I'm throwing it back to 1984 with some of my favorite iconic books, music, and movies from the year I was born.
music Loving for Labor Day: Return of a 20 Year-Old Obscure R&B Remix For LDW, I'm loving a now-streaming obscure R&B remix, grown & sexy fudge pops, bike shorts, dirtbag do-gooding, and the only 4-hr pro-wrestling event worth your day off on Monday.
throwback 2021 TV Faves: Comedy, Now With Feelings! I watched a LOT of streaming shows in 2021. Almost all of my favorites were comedies with a little something more to offer–emotional depth!
essay Note to Self: A SWOT Analysis of “Being Kinder to Myself” A digital strategist tries to be nice(r) to the garbage human I know lives inside me
throwback Dispatches from Tomorrow: Nikko Sixteen years ago, I studied abroad in Japan for six weeks. “Nikko” is the second of several essays I wrote a year later
essay Wake Up, White People: White Supremacy is a Fantasy, but its Reality is Far Worse There’s a scene in Spike Lee’s fantastic 2018 film BlacKKKlansman that is one of the most chilling and accurate demonstrations of how White…
2020 Let’s Talk About Burt’s, Bay-bees Does anyone else remember reading InStyle in the mid-90’s and remembering distinctly that Cher declared her favorite lip balm was this…
essay Leonardo, The Good Place, and St. Francis of Assisi I had never been to a Catholic funeral before; the running gag over the last few decades was that my aunt and uncle had a Baptist wedding…
