The Best Things I Bought in 2023
It's been a couple years since I've done one of these. but sue me, I was feeling nostalgic for these annual posts I used to do. You see,...
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Jul 11, 20225 min read
Perfect Easy Nutty Cookies and Plum Jam, or: Recipes And How Not To Follow Them
One of the first ways people usually describe me is that I'm "not a follower". I tend to view rules and instructions as useful...
Jun 28, 20227 min read
Spoiler Alert: Religious Liberty Was Dead The Entire Time
Anyone who's on Twitter has probably encountered the account Dog Rates. It has over 9 million followers and most of the tweets look like...
Jan 29, 20218 min read
Here's A Recipe For Mango-Lime Meringue Pie Because Everything Sucks
"Wait a minute," you, a reasonable person, might say, "this doesn't look like a 2020 roundup. Isn't it, like, February? Don't you owe us...
Dec 29, 202015 min read
The Best Children's Books That I (A Professional Book Person) Read in 2020
Time - what is it, really? Where does it go? What does it mean? If I'm supposed to get this plus three other posts done the next two days...
Nov 27, 202014 min read
The Manly Gift Guide (For Men)
If you've ever had a man you've loved and tried to shop for, you know one thing: gift guides for men are bad. I'm not sure WHY they're so...
Jan 2, 202010 min read
My Favorite Purchases From 2019
It feels a bit gauche to admit, because it was such a bad year for humanity as a whole, but I had a truly lovely 2019. Pretty much every...
Dec 29, 201917 min read
The Best Music of 2019
Welcome to post-Christmas but pre-New Year, the time where about 50% of us have to go to work in spite of no work being done, and for a...
Dec 16, 201910 min read
The 2019 Book Gift Guide (According to Me, a Professional Book Person)
The biggest change for me in 2019 (besides having a fancy new website, obviously) is that I'm a librarian now! I've been working as a...
Dec 8, 20192 min read
The Wes Anderson Gift Guide for 2019
Way back in Ye Olde Yesteryear of... like two years ago, I didn't have a site, I had a Wordpress blog. On that Wordpress blog, the very...
Dec 28, 201815 min read
The Top Five Things I Bought in 2018
2018 has been a weird year. I’m not talking geopolitically for the world at large (though I could be talking geopolitically for the world...
Apr 21, 201811 min read
Stuff I Can’t Live Without
Everyone, I have an exciting announcement: I’ve fallen in love. Not with an actual person, don’t be silly. That would require a human...
Dec 23, 201716 min read
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Three: Everything Else
Don’t look at me like that. I know it’s too late. Do you think I wanted to be finding a proctor for my stats final and then taking it...
Dec 21, 201712 min read
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part Two: Books
I’m going to start by saying this – you have every right to be mad at me. Here I was promising you so many holiday gift ideas, and then...
Dec 6, 201712 min read
The Gift Guide For People Who Don’t Want Gifts – Part One : Food
You have that person in your life. You know the one – you love them and they’re great until it’s their birthday, or the holidays, or your...
Mar 28, 20163 min read
How To Talk To People On Dating Apps (And In Real Life)
Holy shit, you’ve been matched with someone on a dating app! Or maybe it’s a dating site. Maybe you’re using a site that doesn’t have the...
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