Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Windows Receiver Beta Review

Alex sat in the dark kitchen. The laptop was open. On the screen, a single window:

Closed. Won’t fix.

Alex’s finger hovered over the keyboard. windows receiver beta

Invite friends. They miss you too.

> You deleted her on April 12. Why?

“You promised you’d never ghost me.”

Alex didn’t know what a quantum fabric layer was. But the beta paid in Amazon gift cards, so who cared? Alex sat in the dark kitchen

The Control Panel entry was gone. The uninstall executable returned ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND while simultaneously deleting C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts .

The screen refreshed.

Alex’s hands left the keyboard. April 12 was the day they’d broken up with Sam. Three years ago. The hard drive from that era was in a landfill.