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# The Week in Review
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/the-week-in-review/
- Published: 2026-04-11T13:28:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-11T13:31:38.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske

I'm pleased that my *alma mater* won the NCAA basketball tournament, but I'm even more pleased that I didn't hear a single commentator use the phrase "score the ball" this year, as in, "He's a great player. He can score the ball!" Perhaps [Robert Hartwell Fiske](https://amzn.to/4t5QqwM?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)'s ghost taunted Clark Kellogg with visions of the hell reserved for people who abuse intransitive verbs, I don't know, but I didn't once feel the temptation to hurl my remote at the TV and yell, "Intransitive verbs don't take an object!" \* \* \* \* \* \* \* *Is This Thing On?* is the cinematic flipside of *Schindler's List* if Spielberg had made it a comedy. The movie is about a man in a mid-life crisis who starts doing stand-up comedy. It features the hilarious Will Arnett. It should've been funnier than a feather in the armpits but watching it was more like having my armpit hair yanked out in clumps. I turned it off after about 45 minutes, befuddled at what kind of self-loathing director would intentionally make a depressing movie about comedy. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* [Andrew Cusack laments the decline of the mass market paperback](https://andrewcusack.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-pocket-paperback?utm%5Fsource=profile&utm%5Fmedium=reader2). I would, too, but I've never bought one. Not once. I've long been gathering *used* mass market paperbacks like a homeless man gathering rags as the next blizzard rolls in, but I never bought one of those gluey contraptions new. Twenty-five cents was my limit at Ann Arbor bookstores in the late 1980s. Now I'll spend a buck or two. \* \* \* \* \* \* \* The feel-good fact of the week comes from the *New York Times*, explaining why drive-by shootings aren't so bad. “[Among shootings in New York City in which a person is struck by a stray bullet, babies are rarely the victims](https://www.thefp.com/p/tgif-mmiwg2slgbtqqia?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).” *Rarely*, as in, "Prison isn't so bad. I haven't been raped for a few weeks now."