Sara Ryan

My mom likes to tell the story of when she and Dad decided it was time to jettison the couch we’d had my entire life — which was, then, a whole six years, I think. Struck by the beloved object’s approaching tragic fate, I proclaimed: “That orange couch never hurt anybody in its life!” I [...]

I learned two new words: bershon, circuitously via YPulse (by which I mean that YPulse linked to something and that linked to something else and somehow I ended up clicking on this, and rickroll, via Jessamyn. I do not anticipate engaging in rickrolling, but I expect I’ll dig up a bershon photo or several one [...]

My apologies to anyone who clicked the “More” link on my last post and ran into a whole bunch of super creepy links. I haven’t figured out how the hack worked, but it was indeed a hack. Ew. I probably need to upgrade my WordPress. Folks have been blogging about the new Borders “concept stores,” [...]

The Sound of Young America, a podcast I’d never heard until today, but to which I think I will now subscribe, has a fantastic interview with Wendell Pierce and Andre Royo. There’s a spoiler or two, but mostly they’re speaking more broadly and conceptually about the show as a whole and their experience being part [...]

Anyone who’s been reading this a while knows of my extreme devotion to The Wire. I finally went ahead and made a Wire category, since with the fifth and final season fast approaching, I suspect I’ll be posting about it even more often. (I still suck at categorizing posts, though. Matt, maybe I should hire [...]