• 30-Day Arrested Development Challenge, Day 3: Least Favorite Main Character

    Now, I love Alia Shawkat. She’s an incredible actor, and I’ve enjoyed her in everything that I’ve seen her in (yes, on Arrested Development, too), but Maeby? I just don’t have as much love for the character as I do for the rest of the family. Like … it’s hard to explain. She has the…

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  • 30-Day Arrested Development Challenge, Day 2: Favorite Main Character

    There’s no reason to hide her behind any kind of break: Lucille Bluth is by far my favorite character in Arrested Development, and honestly, the biggest reason is Jessica Walters (may her memory be a blessing). She played this role with such incredible comedic timing and unexpected depth that you instantly hated and loved Lucille…

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  • 30-Day Arrested Development Challenge, Day 1: How I Was Introduced to Arrested Development

    It actually pains me to say this, but my ex-husband was actually the person to bring me into the Arrested Development fandom. He was as transfixed by the clever, self-referential writing as I would end up being, and after he had watched a few episodes on Netflix (the show had been cancelled well before then),…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    So I’ve been listening to Dave Grohl’s The Storyteller, and I’m not gonna lie, it’s kind of inspired me to look into punk. I never really got into punk for whatever reason, but apparently the lead singer of one of my favorite bands can get me to try anything at least once. I can’t say…

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  • Challenge

    Challenge

    Sooooooo … new challenge for this next month! I was actually planning on doing a different series for September, but ultimately, I decided to go another direction, which led me to … Arrested Development. I am actually so excited for this challenge because I feel like there’s so much to unpack, especially with the two…

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  • 146

    As a graduation from nursing school gift, my family bought me an iPad Pro, something that I’d been wanting for years but just didn’t have the money for, and for the first couple of weeks after I’d turned it on, I played with it and tried my hand at a few of the Apple products…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    You know, I was going to do another themed “on rotation,” but instead, I’m going to use my tried and true “YouTube thought I’d like this” method. I think I’m confusing its algorithm with all the genres I’m listening to because Sugarcubes is one of the weirder bands they’ve introduced me to (hi, young Bjork!),…

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  • 145

    I’ve been having kind of an existential crisis over the past couple of weeks, and part of it is due to the fact that I turn 40 in a few months. I know, I know, age is but a number, but 40? It’s kind of a big deal. Like … okay, the concept of being…

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  • on rotation

    on rotation

    It is somehow a week into the month of August, and yeah … I don’t know how it’s this late in the year because it was literally just January. So to celebrate (?), I’m gonna do something a little different for today’s “on rotation” playlist. I’m going with Songs I Would 100% Sing in Karaoke…

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  • 144

    Until my mid-thirties, I didn’t realize I’d been raised evangelical Christian. Yeah, it was a weird time for me for multiple reasons, but I digress. Over the past several years, I’ve been deconstructing, which has been both incredibly embarrassing but also empowering, but mostly on the side of the former because like … I actually…

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