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What is Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself?

2 Mar 201916 Nov 2019
It's a book that is real. Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself repeatedly fielding one particular question: “what’s the deal with this book?” This question has been presented…
Bale…

Home Alone is a Dickensian, Supernatural Test of the McCallisters

14 Dec 20183 Dec 2019
A Fan Theory This post is the first in a new series called Fan Theory Fridays, in which we will share and explore a new fan theory about a film,…
Alien…

The Homage is Not Enough: on the Limits of Nostalgia-First Narratives

13 Mar 201814 Mar 2018
In the summer of 2016 everyone started telling me that I had to watch a show called Stranger Things. I was reluctant. The reluctance came from the way it was…
Bale…

Some takes on 2017, before it ends

30 Dec 201731 Dec 2017
The end of 2017 is nigh. And with it, the top ten lists, the retrospectives, the predictions. Rather than the Top Books Published in 2017 or the Best Films of…
Books…

9 Reasons to Start Reading Moby-Dick on its 166th Birthday

14 Nov 201714 Nov 2017
It's no secret that I'm a pretty big Moby-Dick fan. Or, if it was a secret to you, then this might be the first thing you've read by me. Which…
Donald Trump…

Surely Some Revelation Is At Hand: Classic Poetry and Donald Trump

10 Nov 201710 Nov 2017
I cannot recall where the prompt originated, but in either late 2016 or early 2017 I rewrote several classic poems to be about Donald Trump. I rediscovered them recently and…
Alien…

No, the Alien Covenant Ending Was Not an Obvious Twist. It Was Dramatic Irony.

11 Aug 201715 Mar 2018
It was the best of Alien films, it was the worst of Alien films, it was the sequel to Prometheus, it was the prequel to Alien, it was the story…
Batman…

Sick of Reboots, Sequels, and Extended Universes? Blame Classic Literature

25 Jun 201725 Jun 2017
We find ourselves in the midst of another summer and with it, an endless brigade of sequels, prequels, reboots, requels, and the ongoing march of extended cinematic universes. A new…
Books…

Twelve Ways to Get Hyped for Fargo’s Third Season

30 Mar 20171 Apr 2017
The trailers are out for the third season of Fargo and there isn't much more to say about them than "okay then." As in, it looks good. Pretty darn good.…
2016…

The World Needs Bad Men: How the Bush Era Caused the Anti-Hero Wave that Gave Rise to Trump

22 Jan 201722 Apr 2018
Toward the finale of the 2016 election, Mike Huckabee took to Fox News to give a defense of Donald Trump that I’ve been mulling over in my head ever since.…

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