It's all the rage! Let's take a long-running series and turn it into "prestige" TV, and by prestige, I mean it's on Amazon Prime or Netflix only. I dunno, maybe others. But all of them had one origin:...

My third point of contact with sleep apnea and CPAP was with my current husband, who I would consider a CPAP acolyte. I met him in Indiana and we had been dating almost a year before I got my dream jo...

I've been sick this week. Stomach sick but just cramping. But many things have happened in the time I've been away from my keyboard. I attempted, and failed, to get through the delightful Simon Russel...

EXT. MONOLITH BASE CAMP - THE MOON DEV MCMURDO is in a slick futuristic spacesuit, but even on the surface of the moon he's sweating. Monolith Basecamp has been abandoned since THE DISCOVERY was se...

OFFICE OF KHAN NOONIEN SINGH SUPREME SOVEREIGN OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMUNIQUÉ — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 MARCH 1993 To the governments and peoples of the world, The Great Endeavour continues...

I love Charlize. She's a terrific actor. She's beautiful. She really commits herself to her roles. And she usually takes roles I find interesting. She's one of those "I could watch them read a phone b...

Summer's coming. Pride's coming faster. Here's what Ardshiel Heavy Industries is bringing. I wanted to give an update on our release plans for the summer. First, after my mopey album Classical Civili...

I'm not sure exactly when I had my second encounter with sleep apnea, but if I could give a time frame it was after I was laid off from a company in 2010 at the same time my partner of ten years broke...

Top Gun: There will not be another one. Unchanged. DCU: James Gunn will be fired and replaced with the Injustice Universe. Transformers: New direction. The toys want to be free from their transforme...

So, in the past week I have applied for about 10 jobs. One was from a seemingly real person, but the job sounded so nice, I decided to call her and talk with her about it. I could only leave a voice m...

I wrote previously about my love of Jaws. I saw it when I was 3-years-old in the theater with my family. I was both terrified and captivated, and I can't thank Steven Spielberg, Carl Gottlieb, John Wi...

One of the weirdest things about living in Costa Rica is that because it's so close to the equator, every day is about the same length. That's why there's no daylight saving time here in this country: the regularity of the days, and the people aren't basing their clocks on

I sit here with a blank page before me. I have determined to produce six posts a week for this blog so that I might have a portfolio on my writing. But I am numb and it's too hot outside. Some people ...

Hey, I love the 80s. It's my favorite decade if we were to remove Ronald Reagan and AIDS. And it's not what you think it was like, young reader. It wasn't all pink and teal and Memphis Design and Coca...

By the time I first learned about sleep apnea, CPAPs had actually been on the market for almost six years. My best friend in high school, church, college, and the time thereafter was a year older than...

1. The Disneyworld Tragedy Sentencing: This is a bummer of a topic, but a father, David Contreras, was sentenced to 12 years for shooting his own 21-year-old son. While I haven't been able to find if ...

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It was a hot day in Escazú, San José, Costa Rica today as my husband and I journeyed two doors down to our neighbors for a friendly Good Friday brunch. We didn't speak of Christ's suffering on the ann...

Today is Holy Thursday, also known as Maundy Thursday, because back in biblical times there was a lad no one liked named Maundy. He used to tell on other kids, and the other kids picked up on this hab...

I was doom-scrolling through the Google News app, and for some reason, The Daily Beast is forever attaching the wrong photo to their articles—unless, of course, Netflix has officially become a tourist...

I wandered over to IMDB as one is wont to do when looking up Brendan Gleeson movies in a desperate attempt to find all of his films so you can be that Brendan Gleeson completist person, and I noticed ...

Today I had to make my quarterly appointment with my doctor in my medical district in Costa Rica. It's always an exhausting process for me because despite having used Duolingo for four years straight,...

Harry Hole (officially titled Detective Hole for us English speakers) premiered on Netflix today. I’m going to forego any "Hairy Hole" jokes because, god damn, I’m not that juvenile, but god damn, Osl...

There's a scene in Bodkin, a 2024 miniseries on Netflix, where a shambolic David Wilmot—all big-eyed and fatherly—approaches podcaster Gilbert, played by Will Forte, on a bridge in the titular town. G...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A Statement on Iranian Sovereignty and the Legacy of the October Surprise COSTA RICA — As the United States continues to posture as the moral arbiter of the Middle East, one A...

Speed: I pitched a movie about an out of control bus speeding through the rocky mountains, but in my version there was no one on the bus. The only character was the bus, who couldn't communicate to th...

I saw Marty Supreme, which I never thought I would watch because we are currently at peak Timothée Chalamet, but I didn’t expect a performance like this. I don’t think anyone was. I can say this witho...

So when I’m not searching for a job I will probably never find or wrestling with Social Security to get benefits I am told I need, which would be great but I’d rather not need them at all, I am siftin...

So when I’m not searching for a job I will probably never find or wrestling with Social Security to get benefits I am told I need, which would be great but I’d rather not need them at all, I am siftin...

I am finally at the halfway mark of Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing. It has taken me a year to get here. I am not a slow reader, just a depressed one, and after the sobering news about my move to...

My name is John, and my husband is Larry. We currently live in Costa Rica, but for nearly a year, we’ve bee… John Diller needs your support for Bilbao or Bust