The political divide in this country has never been more extreme. Americans have been siloed into two opposing groups with no seemingly little hope to…
Dear friends, family, and colleagues, It would seem that my most recent post on Facebook has caused a lot of confusion, and dare I say…
Well if it isn’t the new guy! Just so we’re clear from the get go, we do things a little differently around here. This isn’t…
We all know the feeling: you’re sitting down with a big, sloppy chicken parm sandwich to revisit an old episode of Chopped when the commercials…
Hell is other people, and what two people could possibly be more hell than right-wing academic clown Jordan Peterson and the unfathomably uncancelled Bill Maher?…
Oh man, this is so embarrassing. Everyone in this movie that I’m watching from 2012 has these stupid-looking phones. What even are these? They’re all…
Numa Numa, Star Wars Kid, Salad Fingers. If you came of age in the early 2000s, you know these references like the back of your…
There’s an old saying: many a man doth take his lord for a fool, but he who mocks his lord works hard, and he who…
You can’t tell me you haven’t wanted to grab a handful, shake it around in your palm, and toss it in your mouth like a…
A few days into visiting a friend in California, we got free tickets to a taping of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” I guess my…
First of all, I am allowed to have a social life. I’m not just gonna sit alone in my apartment like there is no life…
Boy, we sure are having a great time at this deathcore concert, aren’t we? These drop A tunings and inhaled death growls are really pumping…
So, I’m telling the other servers I work with about this chick I nailed after my set last night, when they suddenly confront me about…
OK, so this one’s at least partially on us. We’ve admittedly been slacking off here at the Hard Times, and the deadlines have been creeping…
Stephen King’s legacy as a horror visionary is as far-reaching as it is undeniable, but it should be fair to say that he, like all…