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 Four

Sunny Days: Episode Thirty Four

Episode Rating Episode Thirty Four: The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis Viewed: 11/1/22 at 7:00 am First Time: No Notes: “….Not gay sex.” The gang’s facial reactions when the woman at the bank says her boss is a woman and they look genuinely taken aback. Even through...
Sunny Days: Episode Thirty Three

Sunny Days: Episode Thirty Three

Episode Rating Episode Thirty-Three: Mac and Dennis: ManHunters Viewed: 10/26/22 at 7:02 am First Time: No Notes: I slapped it on the radiator for a minute and that warmed it. Dee and Charlie are eating…just warmed, raw, steak.  For some reason Charlie’s “sharing,...
Sunny Days: Episode Thirty-Two

Sunny Days: Episode Thirty-Two

Episode Rating Episode Thirty-Two: The Gang Dances Their Asses Off Viewed: 10/3/22 at 6:55 am First Time: No Notes: Whoops, accidentally took a month plus off here. I put the bar under the Pride Section I gave it a once over! I have a soft spot for fake TV show DJs. I...
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...