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Things That Go Bump in the Night: What monsters mean to us today
Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” I’d take it a step further and say a society can be judged by its monsters. That is, what...
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Programming notes and other miscellany
All right, first, if you haven’t been here recently, you may be noticing the new color scheme. You complained loud enough for long enough, so I finally figured out how to change the layout to a more...
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The unwinnable moment between a heckler and a comedian
First, the definition of heckler by someone who has been heckled in a variety of forms over a range of media, from real life to electronic. A heckler is anyone who disturbs your shit. Disagree? Fine....
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The end of an era, Roger Ebert 1942-2013
The first exposure I had to thinking about movies as more than just pure spectacle was watching Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert flay each other over who liked what movie and why on their weekly television...
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First post!
Snarksters of the world unite! No but seriously, don’t come here because I haven’t picked up my room yet. It’s a wee bit messy. That’s New Year’s Resolution #2, right behind “finally start a movie...
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Ray Rice and why I just can’t care about football anymore
Over the last couple years, I’ve soured on football. I come from a football family—my mom had to reschedule her wedding around a Texas/OU game—and football is a big deal where I come from. But as I’ve...
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Let’s Fight: The Most Important (Fake) Dead Parents
There are so many orphans in pop culture. Seriously, if you want to be a hero or a chosen one, you basically have to be orphaned first. And so, inspired by a delightfully time-wasting Twitter...
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