2016 Election… How the Republican Establishment Has Become South Park’s Stan Marsh 10 May 20167 Jul 2016 Jeb(!) Bush recently made headlines by declaring he would not vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, proclaiming "I cannot support his candidacy." With this announcement, he has fallen…
American Psycho… The Kanye with a Thousand Faces: Exploring the Inevitable Kanye West Musical, Part One 6 Apr 20167 Jul 2016 Some things are inevitable: death, taxes, reboots, and musical adaptations. This blog has thoroughly discussed the "dark and gritty reboot," but what about the inevitable musical adaptation? Every person, place,…
Art… Found Poetry from Google Search Console 8 Mar 20168 Mar 2016 "Make it new," Ezra Pound famously said, a mantra which can be applied to any example of what is called found poetry. Examples of making it new can be found…
Bale… Chris Rock’s Top Five is the Movie You Need to Watch Before the Oscars 25 Feb 201626 Feb 2016 As of the publishing of this post, the 88th annual Academy Awards are two days away. This means that a lot of people are either a) predicting who will win…
Bale… The Real Ending of Breaking Bad: No One is Okay 22 Feb 201622 Feb 2016 With Saul Goodman once again gracing our televisions as of last week, it's a good time to reflect on Breaking Bad. Specifically, on its final episode, the polarizing finale entitled "Felina."…
A Game of Thrones… The Link Between George R. R. Martin and the Grateful Dead 19 Feb 201616 Mar 2025 Everything I know About the connections between the Grateful Dead, Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire Update 2022: parts of this article were originally written as…
2016 Election… If the Candidates Were Characters in a ’90s Action Movie: A 2016 Election Cheat Sheet 4 Feb 201615 Feb 2016 Iowa is behind us. That's the good news. We don't have to hear about Iowa anymore. The bad news is that this whole charade has nearly another year left, and…
Bale… How Being an NFL Fan is Like Being a Woody Allen Fan 1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016 With the Super Bowl approaching, it comes time to defend it. In some circles, this isn't a challenge. In others, you have to justify how you can watch something with…
Bale… How to Finally Become a David Bowie Fan 1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016 It's a strange thing when a celebrity dies. Some people mourn for days or weeks or months. Others feel ostracized when it's someone whose work they didn't know, outside the…
Bale… Why I’m Done Seeing Tarantino Films in the Theater 15 Jan 201615 Feb 2016 This isn't a review of The Hateful Eight. I'll sum up my opinion of it in one sentence: It's not his worst movie or his best movie, and I only…