Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Even for people who were born and grew up speaking English, the language can be troublesome on occasion (like, all the time). There are tons of pairs of words – lay and lie, who and whom, affect and effect, and yes, farther and further – that just trip people up all the time. As far...

Most people love going out to eat. Someone else cooks delicious food made from groceries you didn’t have to buy, they wait on you, and you don’t have to clean up the kitchen after it’s over. Most people are also aware that kitchens are not always the paragons of cleanliness and food safety that we...

There’s no accounting for taste or current public opinion, especially when it comes to art. Something is terrible one day, people love it a month later after it gets a cult following, and sometimes, it takes years (or more) for people to really embrace something that was once dubbed a failure. One of my favorite...

I know that you’re thinking I’m probably biased because 1999 was one of the best years of my relative youth, and yeah, you’re right about that. I maintain, though, that objectively speaking, that year will still never be topped musically. And not just because of N’Sync, either. If you’re here reading this post there’s a...

There are so many ways to kill your boredom when you’re stuck at home and don’t have any plans, but you have to switch them up – otherwise you’ll get bored of the things that are stopping you from getting bored! So if you’ve had enough of walking and gardening and break-baking and Netflix for...

We all make mistakes now and then, but here’s the thing – forgetting to turn off a mic used to be a problem that only affected a few people here and there. They were speakers or higher-ups, mostly, or perhaps professors at large universities or actors in stage plays or preachers. Now, though, the advent...

Different people deal with boredom in different ways, and as long as they work, I say do what works! That said, many of us are bored for more hours at a time these days, so you might be looking for new things to occupy your time – and while memes and the like might once...

I love love love the surprise hit Schitt’s Creek. In fact, it might be one of my favorite shows of all time, and I can’t remember the last time I was so bereft watching a final episode – not because it was a sad or bad episode, but simply because I knew it was the very last...

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering whether or not people in the olden days had better or more clever jokes than we do today, well, the New York Public Library Digital Collections has your answer – and it’s “definitely now.” They’ve found this book titled The Gag Book, a handwritten collection of vaudevillian jokes and...

You’ve probably treated yourself to the live action Disney offerings of Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and the Lion King, and if you’re like me, you just can’t wait for Mulan. Now, according to both The Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly, we’re going to be adding a live-action Hercules to the mix. There’s no news...

If you are a person who grew up in America, there’s a 100% chance that you understand the deal with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. People say things are as “American as apple pie,” but in reality, a love for peanut butter and jelly together between two slices of bread is the thing that binds...

Every fan of a series like Harry Potter, which is more than a story – it’s an entire world – knows that there will always be characters and interactions and happenings that didn’t make it onto the page. We would have read about them forever, of course, but authors want to move on and blah blah blah....

Just because you’re famous, it doesn’t mean you’re immune to the crap that people dish out on the internet. In fact, since you have more followers for being so hot and special, you’ve got more people ready to pile on when you slip up. And if these 11 celebs thought we were going let it...

Listen, we all know that celebrities are people just like the rest of us. But given that they usually have more followers and more of a following, well…maybe it makes sense that they get called out harder and faster than the average bear when they make mistakes. And these 12 errors in judgement (and otherwise)...

I don’t recall too many crazy stories from high school. I don’t know whether that means I did something wrong or something right, to be honest, but maybe it’s a little bit of both. There definitely wasn’t anything like happened at these 15 people’s schools, and that makes me a bit happy and a bit disappointed. Hmm....