Thank you.
If there were two individuals whose works I consumed and brought me from a porous state to one which is merely superficial, that would be the works of David Rakoff and Christopher Hitchens. Last night...
View ArticleOn merit
I've read about the boy scouts policy towards homosexuals a lot, and I understand & respect their right of expressive association. If exclusion is not permitted in a free society than groups may be...
View ArticleEven the heavens are denied me here.
With the Bluray release of the first season of Star Trek The Next Generation I decided it was time for me to finally catch up canonically with The Next Generation on Netflix. Over the years I've...
View ArticleThe Stalwart and the Agora
A couple of days ago Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, and ever since I have been arguing with myself over what this means for America. Don't get me wrong, Ryan is the best person Romney...
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Review of Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas
Redshirts is a clever slapstick centered around petrified ensigns that's ambition reaches the same heights as its own arch dialogue.In Palm Sunday, while revisiting his past, Kurt Vonnegut says, "I...
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Review of Sleeping Dogs
Sleeping Dogs puts the best argument forward to date in adapting Hong Kong New Wave cinema to the video game format, showing a technical audacity through pure aesthetic that matches both the films and...
View ArticleClassicism in an Age of Empirical Synth
A week or so ago I was reading twitter and I ran across something Robert Ashley said, "It's interesting that their(Animal Collective) influence is about sound more than a particular set of chords or a...
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The veil of ignorance and steroid usage in sports.
Yesterday Lance Armstrong, the 7 time winner of the Tour de France, released a post on his website which basically amounted to him saying enough is enough with regard of the USADA's attack on his...
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Game review: Congenital hindsights and neurotic dialog with Borderlands 2
In a systematic manner, Gearbox the developers of Borderlands 2 have iterated on their originally revolutionary idea, and conceived a sequel that despite a ton of polish doesn’t quite hack it. The game...
View ArticleObsessively Lame
A few weeks ago I came across a rant Edward Kelly wrote regarding, to summarize, a fraternal stupidity among many men(& some women) when talking about sexism & women’s rights. Much of it I can...
View ArticleThe Ouroboros & the Soapbox
After reading @botherer on twitter mock a blog post from Sean Malstrom which attempted to critique his post on Rock Paper Shotgun I decided that I too shall write about this topic. There has been a...
View ArticleAs I Lay DS9ing
I want to travel into space before I die. But would you really? This fantasy we often create for ourselves of the stars is so wonderfully represented in Star Trek. Unlike it's contemporary The Next...
View ArticleComic Disbelief
The original Prophet, if you aren't familiar, was a Marvel comic run in the 90's at the height of comics. Flash forward to 2013, and the boring 90’s comic hero stereotype John Prophet has been...
View ArticleTunes of Orange is the New black
The music in Jenji Kohan’s new flagship show, Orange is the New Black, is particularly noteworthy. Good music isn’t rare on TV. Typically though, music on TV only aims to tell you how to feel during a...
View ArticleI have erred.
A friend and I are both reading A Utopia of Rules by David Graeber concurrently. In it Graeber mentions experiments where children are asked to write an essay about being the opposite gender. In each...
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