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20Aug 202223 Oct 2023
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An Investigation into Halloween’s Satanic Origins

Diving Deeper into Halloween, Satan, and the Allegations Made in Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Let’s start with one thing: I…

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16Oct 202131 Aug 2023
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Every Large Adult Son on Succession, Ranked

Who is Succession’s Number One Boy? (My Version of Those “Every Succession Character, Ranked” Articles) This is my guide to…

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22Feb 201920 Sep 2024
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Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker, Ant-Man & Metafiction

Or: Is the MCU a Meta Narrative Within the On Cinema at the Cinema Universe? Note: this article has been…

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Why Didn’t Google Know About The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug?

1 Aug 201828 Feb 2023
An investigation into a major hole in Google's knowledge (Updated) I discovered something strange yesterday. It began when, in an effort to make a stupid joke on Twitter, I tried…
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Why Your Westworld Fan Theory is Not a Fan Theory

15 Apr 201815 Apr 2018
Madness descended upon the internet earlier this week when the Westworld showrunners stormed into a the /r/westworld subreddit for what proved to be one of the larger online pranks in…
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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…
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Why Game of Thrones Fan Should Hop on the Minnesota Vikings Bandwagon

18 Jan 201819 Jan 2018
We are nearly two weeks away from the Super Bowl. The Big Game. The Final Battle of the latest NFL season. And while being a fan of the NFL can…
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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…
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Why Die Hard 2 is a Better Christmas Movie Than Die Hard

24 Dec 201711 Oct 2022
It's the season of Die Hard. The season of "Die Hard is the best Christmas movie." Or, at the very least, "did you know Die Hard is a Christmas movie."   Die…
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9 Reasons to Start Reading Moby-Dick on its 166th Birthday

14 Nov 201731 Oct 2021
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…
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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…
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Why That Game of Thrones Fan Theory Is Not a Game of Thrones Fan Theory

26 Aug 201726 Aug 2017
The internet loves a good fan theory. The trouble is, the phrase "fan theory" has started to go the way of words like content or hipster or artisan or any…
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The Alien: Covenant Ending Was Not a Twist. It Was Dramatic Irony.

11 Aug 201727 Aug 2023
On Ozymandias & Alien 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,…

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