Four days in Las Vegas feels like a week-long hour. There’s not much I could say about the storied city that hasn’t already been uttered, but back from a recent vacation, I decided to share the things I saw in a game I have dubbed Vegas Bingo: -Man on the street offering to sell me …
Author: significantblimp
An In Depth Guide as to Why People Vote Against Their Own Interests
So there’s a fair amount of people right now celebrating the downfall of Obamacare while simultaneously only being provided healthcare through the Affordable Care Act not realizing they’re one in the same. And there’s probably an equal number of people experiencing schadenfreude of seeing those people lose their healthcare because they voted for Republicans whose central …
Our Current Political Realities as Explained with Episodes of The Twilight Zone
I’ve watched a lot of TV and if there’s one thing I know, it’s that when someone says things can’t possibly get any worse, things will always become worse. I realize everyone is excited to get out of 2016 and has high hopes for the new year, but personally, I don’t really believe that the …
Dear Ramen
Did you guys know that packets of ramen are only twenty five cents? So I bought a whole mess of them and organized my thoughts about each one in a series of letters. I used Maruchan brand and cooked each one to the exact specifications on the bag without adding extra veggies or peppers or …
Heresy: The Worst Things about the Best Shows
Some years ago I had a friend whose favorite thing to do at parties was tell people he hasn’t seen Breaking Bad because getting yelled at by people who love Breaking Bad was apparently fun to him. People get really attached to the media they love and are willing to defend to the death their …
Ad Obsessed
Some time ago whatever nameless, faceless algorithms that command the internet thought I was a young woman, or, at least, would be interested in a game marketed towards young women. I know this because I started seeing ads for this particular game. They were always interesting and as far as I know, I’m the only …
Gilmore Girls Reunion Hot Takes #MaybeIWasTooHarsh
Submitted for your approval: -Jess looks weeeeiiiirrrdddd. -Logan got more handsom. -Lorelai looks good. -Oh yeah, I found out this time around that Lorelai’s name is spelled Lorelai, not Lorelei as I previously thought. -I found this out because while Rory was looking at old newspapers Lorelai moving to Stars Hollow when she was 16 …
Gilmore Girls Hot Takes
Okay ya’ll, I meant to do this a little while ago, but whatever. I watched all the seasons so here’s my Gilmore Girls hot takes, in no particular order. Also, this is before watching the reunion, whatever. Probably get back to it later. -I hated Dean from day one. -Rory’s so great. Rory’s amazing. Everyone …
On Normalization
Wernher von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. As an adult, he joined the Nazi party and the SS. He worked as an aerospace engineer and is credited with inventing the V-2 rocket which was used extensively to bomb civilians during the Battle of Britain. The Nazi aerospace factories used a fair amount of …
Post Election Meltdown
Over the past month or two I’ve been watching Gilmore Girls and was planning on posting all my hot takes, but, well, life comes at you hard. So here’s my shitty election take: There’s this old George Carlin joke: you ever notice that everyone driving slower than you is an idiot and everyone driving faster …