I first discovered blogs five years ago, while doing some stunningly dull research work as a grad student. I found them to be vapid and facile exercises in self-promotion or self-indulgence, with hordes of people blogging ad nauseum about their cats.

I have no cats.

I do have some embarrassingly glaring holes where the classics of literature should be, major oversights in the great timeline of history, an absence of memories about most of the films I’ve seen and a passionate interest in food.

Feel free to stick around if you’re so inclined. You will find movie reviews and book reviews, as I catalogue my quest to make up for lost time and defunct brain cells.