uneven numbers, except five, with special attention to three; pottery; people who do not appreciate dark humour; concrete cities; being given gifts; throwing myself into projects based on false information; contest shows on television, especially when it concerns singing; (literary) critics who don’t understand the fundamental difference between “realist” and “realistic;”

I watch a lot of television for someone who doesn’t watch television but only watches television series as standalone programs which totally doesn’t count as watching television because you’re skipping all the other nonsense that makes up the television experience. Hopefully—and probably—more than half of the new shows will be off my list by October; [...]

It’s a quiet, boring night. While watching “Gossip Girl,” I’m trying to come up with something interesting to write about, and my mind stays completely blank. There is no sense of initiative in me today, or yesterday, or the day before that even. A creativity block? Not really, because I do have ideas for original [...]

Once there was a time I considered Mischa Barton and Lindsay Lohan to be fine actresses. Barton has this whole weird-body thing going for her, plus the fact that she always seems depressed and lonely. She has some limits to her acting because of this, but somehow she’s able to mesmerize me. I have to [...]

Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver are two entertainers I like deeply. Izzard is indefinitely funny when he’s doing his standup, and even though his role in Ocean’s wasn’t that funny, it was a source of light in the film series. Eddie Izzard has this lovely way of rambling on about a subject, leave that subject [...]

Wow, what a lousy title. Anyway, to deconstruct the bad title: “How I Met Your Mother,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Grey’s Anatomy” in one post. Why? Because they have something in common: gradual quality. One gets worse with every episode, one better and one stays at the same boring level all the freaking time. “How I [...]