I suppose that I'm prepared for the hate, but I just can't remain quiet. It's finally time to be out with it. We writers often have ideas that live and gestate in the backs of our minds and it just becomes a question when — and whether — we ever let them see the light of day. And for the longest time I was content to let this one just be, perhaps even fester a bit.

There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos.

Britt Robertson is an actress I’ve kept my eye on because she’s got a lot of onscreen appeal but has been stuck on the wrong side of “breaking out” for about a decade now. She’s been solid in a few films that didn’t quite hit or were outright flops: “Tomorrowland,” “The Space Between Us,” “A Dog’s Purpose.” Her sweet spot is smart, spunky women who challenge the conventional wisdom. Unfortunately, sometimes Hollywood just doesn’t know what to do with certain thespians, especially women.

Recently, Jason Kelce, football player and potential future brother-in-law of Taylor Swift, was featured with some of his Philadelphia Eagles teammates in this Tide commercial. This isn’t the first time the Eagles have been linked to thefamous laundry brand, but just like the last time, their predominantly male audience had some thoughts. Not surprisingly, the comments of those that loved it and those that hated it were spread almost directly down a distinct gender divide.

Just after midnight on Friday, August 4 — technically Saturday, August 5 — The Rose confidently strode on stage at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. The concert was part of Lollapalooza's series of Aftershows, which gave performers the opportunity to showcase their music in a more intimate setting. The previous evening, the four-man group had headlined at the festival's Bacardi stage. They had already performed at foreign Lollapaloozas in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Sweden earlier this year.