That time of year again

Hope everyone enjoyed their Mother's Day! We Rochlin children celebrated by getting my Mom breakfast donuts (as requested), went out for lunch and then had fancy home-cooked pasta for dinner. A very food-focused affair. Spending the morning and afternoon with her (as well as the night with my friends losing hours to Minecraft) left me with …

Jason and Dara explore ‘America’s Got Talent’

I don't know how exactly I got roped into this, but Mom and I have spent a chunk of the day just streaming through the most recent season of America's Got Talent on Hulu. She said she's watching it because there isn't a whole heck of a lot else on. But also because sometimes you …

Jason and Dara explore Netflix’s ‘explained.’

Mom took me down a rabbit hole I wasn't expecting to go down today. A Netflix documentary rabbit hole. But not any sort of traditional documentaries. No, we've been watching the series of mini-documentaries produced by Vox for Netflix called "explained." Technically it's more like "_____, explained," as each episode takes a different subject and …

Makin’ that cash money

[Now last night because I wrote this rather slowly] I was honored to be invited to the Cal State Fullerton Communications Department Awards, where I received the $1,000 Jay Berman Daily Titan Scholarship. Yeah, that really just about sums it all up. Fastest blog post I've ever written. Good night everybody. ... ... Okay fine, …

A week of Gaming Records

My Mom is a book editor.  She does some freelancing work, some fact-checking, and runs a blog about her work and her interest in the English language over at Dara Rochlin Book Doctor.  Her interest does serve as a good dose of inspiration to me, as a lot of my passion in life revolves around …