Rapid Fire: The Books I Read in 2022

Below is the list, published to my website & CNN’s homepage annually, of the books that I read in the last year. Last year I knocked out nineteen books. This year I finished thirty five. That is an improvement. Excitingly, there is a new key at the bottom of...

Crowning a Fast Food King, 10 Years Later

Most of the posts on this blog, when boiled down to core components, yield an uncomplicated combination of two or more of the following: tracking numbers, pointless investigations, dumb jokes, declaring definitive winners of things, and content no one but myself truly...
Sunny Days: Episode Thirty One

Sunny Days: Episode Thirty One

Episode Rating Episode Thirty One: Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City Viewed: 8/17/22 at 7:22 am First Time: No Notes: One of my favorite cold opens here – just the three silently watching the hobo masturbate.  I do like that the old man reading outside was...
Sunny Days: Episode Thirty

Sunny Days: Episode Thirty

Episode Rating Episode Thirty: The Gang Gets Whacked Part II Viewed: 7/28/22 at 7:04 am First Time: No Notes: I think…this is the only episode without a cold open? I don’t know if that’s accurate, as I’m not a reliable source of information, I’m just a guy eating a...
Sunny Days: Episode Thirty

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Nine

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Nine: The Gang Gets Whacked Part I Viewed: 7/25/22 at 6:49 am First Time: No Notes: “So I’m supposed to risk my life based on something you saw in Tango and Cash?” As someone who is partially Italian, this episode’s Italian American...
Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Eight

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Eight

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Eight: Dennis Looks like a Registered Sex Offender Viewed: 7/21/22 at 6:55 am First Time: No Notes: Once again, two days in a row I started the episode at exactly the same time. God is good. Also two straight episodes that directly...
Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Seven

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Seven

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Seven: Mac is a Serial Killer Viewed: 7/20/22 at 6:55 am First Time: No Notes: The entire opening where Dennis, Charlie and Dee are discussing how inconvenient it would be to dispose of Dee’s body, capped off with her saying “he could use...
Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Six

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Six

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Six: Sweet Dee is Dating a Retarded Person Viewed: 7/18/22 at 6:51 am First Time: No Notes: This may be the episode I’ve seen the second most of em all.  The birth of Dayman/Nightman lore starts here – and not in The Nightman Cometh as...
Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Five

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Five

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Five: Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire ​Viewed: 7/14/22 at 7:28 am First Time: No Notes: Everyone quietly watching dancing guy for a good minute is a great scene.  Dee just waking up on the trash and not realizing how she got there and sorta...
Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Four

Sunny Days: Episode Twenty Four

Episode Rating Episode Twenty Four: The Gang Sells Out Viewed: 7/12/22 at 6:42 am First Time: No Notes: The scenes that open with the gang arguing among themselves, then cut to another character sitting there waiting for them never fails to land.  The “wood” scene is...