I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as Agents of Dreamland. Lots of interesting ideas and striking prose, but the disjointed and meandering narrative made it a slog.
My Cultural Diet
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An excellent Lovecraft-inspired novella. Reads like the trippiest X-Files episode never made.
Packard has more fun toying with the “Choose Your Own Adventure” format, though Inside UFO 54 – 40 isn’t as trippy as Hyperspace.
Not sure if this gave me a lot of new insight into Kon’s films, but it was neat to see how respected he was by other filmmakers. We lost someone truly special when he died.
My least favorite Expanse novel to date. But even a “bad” Expanse novel is still pretty good.
Direct-to-video martial arts action comedies from the mid-to-late ’90s don’t get much better than this.
Read this in under 24 hours. Hurwitz knows how to write a pageturner, but it’s 100% style over substance. I appreciated the effort to make more nuanced and thoughtful bad guys, but I would’ve liked more mindless action and less existential philosophizing re. marriage, parenting, etc.
Didn’t like this as much as season one. Some promising new story ideas were introduced but none of them were developed in a satisfying way. This season felt rushed and truncated, which wasn’t helped by the fact that it only had seven episodes compared to the first season’s ten.
Their mango chicken on jasmine rice is solid, but the skillet shrimp appetizer is where it’s at.
For a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book geared towards grade schoolers, Hyperspace is pretty trippy and meta.
Loved the Cold War, 007-esque espionage angle on this one.
The very first Choose Your Own Adventure story proper.
This restaurant in Mead, NE (of all places) was a delightful surprise. Their wood-fired pizzas are delicious and they even make a solid cheesesteak.
As a military aviation buff, I could spend hours here. IIRC, you could climb into some of the planes when I was a kid, but no longer. Still, I get chills every time I see the B-47 Stratojet up close.
You haven’t truly lived until you’ve had one of their caramel cinnamon rolls.
