Greetings Book Club, this week I’m going to talk about The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff. It’s a nonfiction crime thriller about the international drug kingpin Paul Le Roux. I read American Kingpin by Nick Bilton back in 2019 and have been fascinated with the non-fiction “True Crime” genre ever since. Catch and Kill, Bad […]
Welcome back blog readers, today’s TV discussion is going to be about Amazon’s Invincible. The show has been out for a few years, and it’s relatively polarizing despite it being excellent in my opinion. The source material is derived from comic written by Robert Kirman back in 2003 and mirrors a lot of themes […]
Welcome back blog and book readers, this week’s installment of my book club features Trading Bases by Joe Peta. The book is about a Wall Street hedge fund manager who develops a model to bet on baseball games. I love baseball analytics, I love sports gambling, and I love learning about investment banking. Combine […]
Last week I saw two 2025 releases and thought this would be a good place to discuss them. If you need an explanation of my rating scale, please refer to the beginning of My 2024 Oscars Preview. The two I saw last week were The Gorge and Mickey 17, let’s get into it! First, let’s […]
Welcome to my new weekly TV show blog. I try to keep up with everything that’s going on, this week I want to focus on Hulu’s Paradise. Warning, spoilers will be included as the season finale was this week. I’ve been talking to everyone who will listen about this, but unfortunately no takers yet so […]
Book Club Introduction Over the last few months, I’ve started to get back into reading and wanted to start a weekly blog to talk about it. I was an avid reader when I was younger and have still kept up with it over the years, but I wanted to exercise my brain more this year. […]
You’ll notice that there was no 3,000-word Oscars preview here like I wrote last year, that’s because most of the movies nominated this year weren’t worth anyone’s time. Shoutout to Dune Part 2, the fact that multiple academy voters said they didn’t even watch it tells you all that you need to know about […]
Ok, let’s start this by saying the PECOTA projections have them winning the third most games in baseball in 2025. The sportsbooks have the Cubs as the odds-on favorite to win the NL central, this is most likely going to be a good team that’s playing postseason baseball come October. So why does every Cubs […]
