I love animals. I have two rescue cats whom I adore and am eager to pet any dog that crosses my path while I'm on my way to and from work. We've even got an office dog, who goes by the name of Mousse. There's no question that his presence warms the hearts of the company's workers. He may even help improve productivity. But giving the okay for Mousse to join us Mondays through Wednesday was no easy feat. See, our HR administrator wanted to make sure that everyone in the office was comfortable wi…

Happy Tuesday, everybody! If you're not reading this on Tuesday, congratulations. You're already several steps ahead of everybody else, including me! I am standing here feeling extremely Tuesday-pilled while you might be living in Wednesday or even Thursday! Tuesday used to be one of my favorite days of the week because I always had a swell little extracurricular activity on Tuesday nights. These days, Tuesday is just another day and another dollar. Honestly, I think Thursday might be my least…

Like it or not, social media addiction is a 100% real affliction. And boy, are we afflicted. At the start of each day, I have dreams. Goals. Hopes. Wants. For example, I've been staring at Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet for months now. It's collecting dust on my bedside table, and yesterday I promised myself I would read at least a few of the poems. By the time I finished my work for the day, I was too brain-dead to even turn a page. That's where social media came in. Instead of reading…

Just why

It's meme time

He got exactly what he asked for

'A Chinese' ≠ Chinese food

These people are nuts

If you have spent significant time with old people , you know that there are a million Westerns on TV at any given time. While the genre has fallen out of fashion, it dominated the film industry for its first 50 years. In the silent era, one out of every five movies were Westerns. It's difficult to overstate the impact of the genre. With Westerns came a million cowboy characters with giant cowboy hats. My friends and I recently watched a bunch of cheaply made westerns from the 30s, all with the…

'Tofu for me is just an ingredient'

Perfect attendance awards in school are a very tricky beast. There were definitely years in school where I never missed a day, and I was encouraged by my family and teachers to be proud of that. However, I didn't have perfect attendance in 2nd grade because I was particularly special or gifted. I only had perfect attendance because I was lucky. I didn't get sick, and no external factors kept me from school for those days. I accomplished nothing substantial, and yet I got praised for it. Concept…

Poor Slytherin

Contrary to popular belief, most film sets are not glamorous. Even if you go back to the alleged “golden age” of Hollywood, everyone working on a film set was being worked to

I remember the first time I watched Jesse Plemons on a screen. The red-headed Texan was aptly starring in the television adaptation of Friday Night Lights, which remains one of my favorite series of all time. There's just something about melodramatic sports media that resonates with me deeply. While the character he portrayed, Landry Clark, wasn't even close to being a stud like Tim Riggins or Coach Eric Taylor (sue me), his acting was brilliant. Thanks to his very obvious skill, Jesse Plemons…

What happens when you mix a teaspoon of innocent first world anarchy with cringey people of the internet? They're called mad lads. A mad lad, or madlad, is defined as follows by Know Your Meme: “Mad Lad , also spelled Madlad , is a slang term that is used to describe someone doing something that is crazy and unexpected, but can also be used in a sarcastic manner for someone doing something that is not hard to do or crazy — sharing similarities to the lol so random meme. The term is commonly use…

Clock app madness