Olivia Rodrigo is selling a lot of records without the co-sign of a near-40-year-old dude in flyover country, so it’s not like this is the most essential, ground-breaking post I’ll ever write, but I kept hearing her singles in public and thinking “damn, that’s a good song, I need to listen to her album!” I… Read More Pop Perfection: Olivia Rodrigo “Sour”
I’m not a Beatles guy. It’s not that I don’t like the Beatles; I just never really got into them. The last time I really listened to any of their music was when Cirque du Soleil released the soundtrack for their Beatles-based show “Love,” and it was like an hour-long DJ set of classic Beatles… Read More ‘Get Back’ from a non-Beatles guy perspective
Aldi is a weird grocery store. I can’t really lean on it for all of my grocery needs, since they lack consistency in the things they carry, particularly in certain staples needed in my partially gluten-free, low-dairy home. But I can appreciate the interesting stuff they bring in the snack realm, as well as the… Read More Crisps and cookies to kill for: Aldi finds that require Recommendation
Before I get to this brief soda recommendation, I should note that I am generally in favor of fruit-flavored colas. When given a choice between regular Coca-Cola and Cherry Coke, I will pick cherry 10 of 10 times. Same with Pepsi. The thing is, though, not all fruits work well in cola, or perhaps it’s… Read More That was unexpected: Mango Pepsi is good!
Before we get started, a couple of disclaimers. First, I am not gluten intolerant, but my wife is, so I’ve had occasion to dip into the world of gluten free foods, and have been mostly pleasantly surprised at the quality of stuff out there. These Tate’s ginger zingers are gluten free, made with rice flour.… Read More More like WIN-ger: Tate’s gluten free ginger zinger cookies
I don’t vacuum my apartment enough. My wife would tell you that. We have three cats and they shed, and mixed with all the other normal dust and human hair (including my wife’s) that falls to the ground on a daily basis, vacuuming brings up a grody gray mass of hairy fluff every time I… Read More Grown-Up Reviews: The Shark Vertex Powered Lift-Away Upright Vacuum Cleaner
Last week, I ate a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. You know Cocoa Puffs: they’re arguably the gold standard for chocolate cereal, at least in the United States. This was my first bowl from the first box of Cocoa Puffs I’d had in a while, at least a year. But the cereal just didn’t taste as… Read More Little Bites, Big Chocolate: Mini Wheats Little Bites are the best chocolate cereal
Growing up, one of my favorite dishes was my dad’s baked beans. He would take a can of plain old Van De Camp baked beans (with or without weenies) and jazz them up with brown sugar, salt, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and probably one or two other things I’m forgetting. They were sweet and tangy… Read More Thos beans: Serious Bean Company brings the flavor
Disclaimer: This piece is pretty long. I learned some things in the 48 hours after writing it (and then some more several months later) that made me add a section to the bottom that makes it a bit more definitive in its negativity, but I think it’s still worth reading through, top to bottom, to… Read More Not Fun Trading: I’m trying NBA Top Shot (update: I’m not trying anymore)
Watching the Apple TV smash hit comedy “Ted Lasso,” I was reminded a bit of the Pixar movie “Inside Out.” As I enjoyed the all-too-brief 10-episode first season, I started to see each of the people in the orbit of this fictional English football club as individual representations of very recognizable human emotions. There’s the… Read More “Ted Lasso” is my hero
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