Even with its zaniest characters, The Office has long enjoyed a reputation as a show that’s strived for realism. Yes, Steve Carell’s Michael Scott would get fired in today’s workplace (ditto Meredith, Creed, Kevin, and probably more), but there’s no arguing that he’s a very thoroughly written character. As the…

As a reporter, this is what is sadly known as a “Lost Article.” I was assigned it, I likely got paid for it in some form. But it never ran. I saw a guy on TV say he was from Alexandria and since I wrote for an Alexandria magazine, I…

Newton Minnow was a most interesting political figure. He’s mostly known for telling television executives at a 1961 conference to their faces that TV was a “vast wasteland” as the head of the FCC. Today, I might have equated him to those awful MAGA cronies like Rick Perry and Scott…

Perhaps the greatest thing about Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is that it’s a film about a 6th grader, that ends in 6th grade. Who knows what Margaret will grow up to believe or become. Who knows if she’ll have that date (or it’s 7th grade equivalent) with…

Hey guys, remember to subscribe and support my YouTube channel and patreon. I’m looking to find another YouTube collaborator for this. One of the less publicized elements of the Academy Awards is who gets invited to join the Academy every year. Every year, a press release gets sent out and…

(2) Zoom Q and A with Blair Tindall of Mozart in the Jungle — YouTube In 2016, I was a struggling freelance journalist that wrote an article about the TV show Mozart in the Jungle that got Blair Tindall’s attention. She took the time to message me on Twitter and…

Not Dead Yet (ABC): Capitalizing on Ghosts, Gina Rodriguez plays obituary writer Nell. During the period of her obituary assignment, she can see dead people. It’s one of many female-centered shows about a woman who doesn’t have her life together in the vein of Dollface, Maggie, Girls, Single Drunk Female…

I’ve evolved on gay rights over the years. Like anyone growing up in the 90s, I found the concept of gay people icky and unnatural. Most zoomers have no concept of this period. …

I have written for the American Conservative, the Federalist, and the notoriously right-leaning Washington Times. At the same time, I have written for the Washington Post as well as the Southern Poverty Law Center which is considered a hate group by people on the right. So I can say from…