Other topics include the suburban pizza landscape, a taste-test of a new Nerds Gummy Cluster varietal, and a defense of SINNERS so rhapsodic that I sound like I'm on cocaine

Tune in if you want to hear some gushin' about THE BONE TEMPLE

Your library loves you and wants the best for you and, indeed, exists for the betterment of you

Many schools and businesses are closing tomorrow—which makes sense!—and yet the public library stays open to keep everyone warm and safe

Regarding tomorrow's -25 temps, the only insight I have is that if you HAVE to go somewhere, putting tights or leggings on underneath your pants makes a big difference, and unfortunately it doesn't matter what you spent on your gloves because your hands will ache after a few minutes no matter what

"I would have nominated Sinners a 17th time"

Noms for Delroy and Wunmi and I am simply floating

It's so warm out :)

You dare tell me to my face that your book tour is coming to Chicago when you are in fact reading at Anderson's Bookshop

bone temple :)

There's a precise level of confidence every human being should exhibit, and believe it or not, I alone decide what that level is and whether you have it

Ah dude you're gonna love it, it's a really cool coffee shop and they've got exactly 2 tables that are always occupied and an excess of shelving full of mugs for sale instead of additional places to sit and it's just got this great vibe that you'll never get to take advantage of

Have put a lot of thought into it and must conclude that the reason Midwesterners are the hottest species is not merely that they are corn-fed and full of shame but also that, faced with subzero temps and bitter winds, they still make the choice to throw on their parkas and non-slip boots and GATHER

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

Few people know this, but the 🤌 emoji was invented to convey the feeling of the bus driver laying on the horn at cars parked in the bus lane

My family drove 45 minutes to Dubuque in the pitch darkness to go see WICKED: FOR GOOD together, and that movie isn't even very good

"I don't get ready, I stay ready," I whisper as I toss a third jar of peanut butter into my shopping basket

Yes, I suppose calling for their dissolution *would* make change harder, insofar as you might actually have to get off your ass and effect that change

Never done karaoke even once in my life but am absolutely positive that "Real World" by Matchbox Twenty would be my signature song

"In fact, everyone is mad" is not a very useful nor even a very intellectually honest take when one side is mad about murder and the other side is mad about being labeled The Bad Guys just because they do murder

As the big day approaches, there is only one question on my mind: Will Super Bowl LX see the triumphant return of Chazmo

Catering so hard to the people who would rather be alone in their living rooms that you erase everything that makes moviegoing a communal and therefore meaningful experience

I really like when a writer's grasp on the technical and bureaucratic aspects of the wealth gap does not prevent them from turning toward the audience and articulating the far simpler, more fundamental problem

Oh yeah baby that's the good stuff

Like I said

Docile Gorgon Dream Girl

Haven't watched the Globes yet, chiefly because they have not yet happened, but I'm so happy that "I Lied to You" from SINNERS won Best Original Song and that no one can yet tell me that this is not what occurred

We need more ghosts in: urban settings, impoverished settings, non-domicile settings, non-nuclear-family settings

I so hope that Simu Liu's turn in OH, MARY is going to unlock something in him that informs his performances and, more importantly, his CHOICES going forward. Imagine playing Mary's Teacher with all the energy of a theatre kid and then having to return to the DOOMSDAY set for greenscreen reshoots

I'm falling asleep but I heard fireworks and I knew

[Me after haphazardly aiming the blow dryer at my head from every direction] Well, whatever happens is in God's hands now

I've decided that, as a consumer, I no longer need to know what has or has not been expertly curated

Seems only logical that government agencies formed more recently than The Postal Service released "Give Up" should be pretty easy to defund and dismantle

New favorite photo of Weird Al just dropped

"We are all so eager to help each other" was my greatest lesson in 2025 and 2026 will likely do nothing but reinforce it

These are all true and ought to be heeded, but I love language enough to note with some glee that a moot point is worth muting, hunger pangs can indeed be painful, and if you jibe with someone, odds are good that you'd be down to jive with them (in sense [b] and [c] of the latter term's definition)

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

Oh the library is BUSTLIN' today

It has come to my attention that I've been mixing up Jack O'Connell and Josh O'Connor this entire time. I guarantee I will not do better going forward

So that's how they get the cinnamon in there

Forever pausing my headphones as I board the bus just in case the driver needs to tell me something

The holidays are incredibly over, as evidenced by the squirrel that just ran by with a scrap of Christmas decor in its mouth

One cool thing I've learned as an adult is that when your cousins get married their spouses are basically just your cousins now and then you have twice as many cool cousins as before

After a several-month stretch of having Craigslist notifications turned on, I can say with some authority that most lamps are ugly, most end tables are ugly, and most mirrors are ugly, but the things in your home *most* likely to be ugly are the dining chairs

My intact, unmarred manicure has never once been viewed by human eyes

Glad to see the January PR machine continues to be good 'n normal

The neighbor across the way has frosted their windows, and while a reasonable reaction would be "Sure, they probably don't want anyone seeing into their place," my first thought was "Oh dear, they have been driven to block out the horrific view that is me"

Would love, for a single moment, to root around in the mind of a man posting something like "Every moment I'm not gaining I'm aiming" with deathly seriousness

It's Marty by a landslide!!!!

Should I see THE SECRET AGENT or MARTY SUPREME tonight quick tell me I only have 30 minutes to make a decision