Daily dispatches on culture, life & everything else
I handed my Saturday and Sunday over to ChatGPT — meals, movies, activities, all of it — and followed the plan as faithfully as I could. What I got was a perfectly adequate weekend that felt strangely hollow, and a lot of questions about why I thought this was a good idea in the first place.
Jul 25, 2026
There's no dramatic fight, no tearful goodbye, no closure — just a slow fade to silence in a thread that used to light up your phone every hour. The death of a group chat is one of the stranger losses of modern life, and somehow we never learned how to talk about it.
Jul 25, 2026
I started blocking off one night a week for purely low-stakes, no-apologies TV. No prestige dramas, no documentaries about things I should care about — just whatever felt good in the moment. What I didn't expect was how much it would mess with my head in the best possible way.
Jul 25, 2026
I went looking for nothing in particular and ended up in corners of the internet devoted to competitive ironing, vintage menu collecting, and a TikTok subculture entirely dedicated to the sound of rain on different roof materials. The algorithm knows things about us we don't know about ourselves.
Jul 25, 2026
I put my phone in a drawer for 48 hours and called it an experiment. What I got instead was a deeply uncomfortable mirror held up to my own habits. Turns out, I'm more dependent on that little rectangle than I'd like to admit.
Jul 25, 2026
There are roughly ten thousand things available to watch at any given moment, and I have chosen to rewatch Schitt's Creek for the fourth time. This is not a cry for help. Or maybe it is. Either way, let's talk about it.
Jul 25, 2026
After years of curating the perfect streaming stack, I did the unthinkable: I called my cable provider back. Turns out, I'm not alone — and the reasons why say a lot about where we are with entertainment right now.
Jul 25, 2026
Most people scroll right past the comments. I decided to stop and actually read them — Reddit threads, YouTube comment sections, forgotten forums — for a full week. What I found was stranger, funnier, and more human than I expected.
Jul 25, 2026
What happens when you ditch the algorithm entirely — no feeds, no recommendations, no infinite scroll — and go back to the way people actually used the internet twenty years ago? Forums, RSS readers, random link-clicking, and websites that looked like they were made by a person with strong opinions about fonts. It was illuminating, humbling, and honestly kind of exhausting.
Jul 24, 2026
Eight streaming subscriptions, one impulsive cancellation spree, and a month of figuring out what I actually missed versus what I was just hoarding. Turns out the math on modern streaming is kind of a nightmare — and the experiment taught me more about my own habits than any algorithm ever could.
Jul 24, 2026
There was a time when ordinary people wrote thousands of words about their Tuesday afternoons and the whole internet showed up to read them. That era is basically gone now, and honestly? We should probably talk about what we lost when it left.
Jul 24, 2026
I told myself January was going to be the month I finally got through that prestige drama everyone keeps recommending. Reader, I watched The Office for the fourth time instead. Here is my full, embarrassing streaming log — and what it says about all of us.
Jul 24, 2026