I was going to post this last week after bingeing on Making a Murderer and finding myself strangely attracted to Steven Avery’s attorney Dean Strang, and wondered if it was the small town lawyer genre […]
I wanted to say that the Twin Peaks bender I started over the holidays and am one episode away from finishing (22 episodes in one season seems insane by today's abbreviated standards, right?) was completely […]
I'm specifically referring to CIA deputy chief John Redmond from the fourth season of Homeland, but this jowly, seen-it-all breed thrives in other guises. They could also very well be a reporter (maybe a photographer?) […]
Are there things you didn't think you liked because you thought it was something else? It happens to me a lot with music where I might just misconstrue a band's style because I hate the […]
I'm pretty sure I've made my interest in John Gallagher Jr. known before, despite not watching Newroom, the show that brought his face to my attention, but Typepad has a useless search. In real life […]
It may have had something to do with the stale, re-circulated air and the out-of-body state that long haul flights induce even after a few hours. Just knowing that you'll be sitting in the same […]
Some time ago I was snarking on unpretty-to-me ladies. I meant to follow up on men. It's not as if they are any better. For a spell, I was concerned with indie dudes who have […]
Occasionally I'll catch parts of A Chef's Life on Sunday night. I'm assuming it's a series following a chef-couple who've moved to eastern North Carolina, the female half's home state and region, at least that's […]
It's not all TV stars and small town business-owners. There's also the workaday types like the business travel affair boyfriend (which is not a boyfriend at all, clearly) and not an Up in the Air […]
Maybe it's because I'm in a lull after a midsummer book binge (I've been wasting my free time trying to design/organize/build a new website but have pretty much no tech skills and am easily distracted […]