A show about failure (that failed) returns, but should it have?

I’m going to be writing an ongoing blog about my journey through the US Presidents. In 2020 I set out to listen to a biography of every US President in order. Every week I’ll be posting a short blurb about one of those biographies and I’ll include a fun (or not so fun) fact about the president. I hope you join me on this journey!

We’re introduced to Charlie Cale as she lies in bed and scrolls her phone. Her face is impassive, her arm at a right angle, the morning sun just barely touching her. We all know this moment, a modern affliction, the scrolling paralysis that overtakes you before your day begins.

I will be joining Sequoia Speaks as their guest fiction editor for Spring 2023!

I, like much of the country, have been watching Rian Johnson’s excellent Poker Face and it’s led me to contemplate a few different things. Would it be a gift or a curse to know if people are lying? How would I use this skill? Why does someone who hates sand live in a dessert? And, of course, what defines Natasha Lyonne’s distinct and inescapable charm?

But these aren’t the questions that drove me to write this, my inaugural blog post. That question is more to do with the modern state of pop culture discourse.