Hello! If you've known me for a long time or even a little bit of time you may know I'm squarely in my late 30s and the 40's are staring me down menacingly from behind a chain link fence nearby.

This means I'm suddenly acutely aware of how I didn't really do any exercise previously. Most of the exercise I got in my 20's was by working Retail and Food Service and you know what, the big box of 20 ounce plastic cups at Panera went on the top shelf in the back. When I got an office job in my field this pretty much dried up completely. I've spent the last year or so grappling with this: how do I tri...

It's hard to contextualize what MTV was in a way that'll make sense to someone that didn't grow up with it being relevant. MTV always sucked, at least for as long as I've been old enough to care about it. But it sucked in a way that was different than how it sucks now. When I think of MTV sucking, I think of the shift to Reality TV, which isn't even what they're known for anymore. The Real World basically invented modern reality TV in 1990, and Real World/Road Rules marathons were commonplace by the year 2000, and I won't even get into how their sister channel VH1 slid into the wackiest Realit...

Hi gamers. Three years ago I moved to Philadelphia. The reasons for this were many, timing was on my side, and the price was right. I saw an opportunity to own in one of the last affordable walkable cities on the east coast.

My logic being that with a fixed-rate mortgage, my rent can never go up.

Unfortunately after 3 years, there are some structural problems making themselves more known that need to be addressed & I had been putting off. There's pretty severe joist damage under the kitchen, and my kitchen floor tile has started cracking quite badly. Essentially, whole kitchen's gotta come out s...

Howdy gamers, as you may have read previously, I've finished Ashes to Ashes and by extension the Life on Mars cinematic universe. If you didn't read this previously, you may want to get caught up before we get into it: Life On Mars & A2A Season 1, A2A Season 2.

And here we are again, back for a brand new round of supernatural policing in the past, and play the shitty games that suck ass. When we last left our friend Alex Drake, she had been shot and fell into a coma... and then woke up from a coma? Or maybe she's in a new, second coma, like Inception, nobody's really sure what's going on and it...

Hey gang, I finished Ashes to Ashes and by extension I now have the whole Life on Mars Cinematic Universe Experience under my belt.

If you want to know what I thought about LOM & Season 1 of A2A, there's a post for that. This post is, specifically, about Season 2 and another one will be coming soon for Season 3.

If you already read that first post and just need a quick refresher, Life on Mars was about Sam Tyler who in 2006 got hit by a car, fell into a coma, and woke up in 1973. He wakes up and misses 1973 so bad he throws himself off the roof of an office building so that he can go back! Kind ...

How do you even explain a show like Please Like Me?

A few months ago Taskmaster Australia aired its second season (but it was third in filming order? that's a whole different confusing can of worms) and one of the contestants on it was Josh Thomas, a melancholy twink who stood out to me and my husband as hilarious amongst a pretty funny contestant lineup. As an american, my heartfelt suggestion is to watch all of english-language Taskmaster (except for US which I've written about before, sorry Reggie) if you're interested in finding new comedians to love.

As it turns out, one of the most fun par...

Discovered my RSS feed was truncating my posts because my Life On Mars/Ashes to Ashes post was so long..... turns out there's no setting to toggle this in the OctoberCMS RainLab Blog, I had to go edit some code.

In case this ever turns out to be something you want to fix, you should change post.summary to post.content_html in /plugins/rainlab/blog/components/rssfeed/default.htm

post.summary truncates your post, while post.content_html shows the whole thing. if you pass that into |raw, this will not escape the HTML characters, which is nice on a template page where you need it to parse something,...

One of the shows I'd been watching recently while I work was Life On Mars, which was a super megahit on UK TV back in 2006. I think my dad might have even been pirating it as it was airing? After watching through it, I can see why it was popular, it comes together as what I think is more than the sum of it's parts and is really compelling.

In case you're not familiar, Sam Tyler is a cop who gets hit by a car during a murder investigation in 2006 in which his girlfriend (who is also a cop) gets kidnapped by the murderer because she tries to go after him alone. This last part is only a big deal f...

This is, quite honeslty, a pretty mainstream opinion. But sometimes you have to say it out loud.

There is one piece of knowledge I was trying to get to, and in doing so I had to learn alot of individual things. The goal was, figure out how to keep a discord stream running 24/7 with how modern computers & my less than stable ISP connection are constantly interrupting all of my shit.

Let's rewind a bit, and get some background on why.

Long time friend of the show EntranceJew, at the start of the pandemic, had an idea to create a discord based TV station. All the tech folks were stuck working from home anyway, so why not watch Perfect Strangers and Head of the Class while we do it? To accompli...

I don't have alot to say about the election, because much of it is complicated and I just don't have the energy to lay out everything that's happened in US Politics between September 12th, 2001 and today, but I'm disappointed and not that surprised. I am also not the smartest, politically, so while I have alot of thoughts that make sense to me specifically, it's possible I'm mistaken on quite a few things, and I'm also simply not great at explaining my thought processes.

There are a few things, in my IMO, that are important to say, because they concern how I'd like to address some things in my ...

What is, gender, really, when you think about it? It's a series of social expectations that will be different depending on what culture you're in and how people perceive you. More importantly, do you want those expectations placed on you? Would you be happier with the other set, mixing and matching things from both sets, or perhaps you're like me where you feel the expectations are unfair. I certainly didn't pick them. Why should I like sports because I'm AMAB? My sister loves watching baseball, I have no clue why, and if my grandfather was still alive, he would likely be really upset that she...