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Recapping: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 3: Silence, Klepto.
This week’s Breaking Bad recap, “Silence, Klepto,” is made possible by proceeds from this picture of Taylor Sardoni in Castle Dracula. Every time Mike thinks he’s out, the paralegal classes he’s taking at Albuquerque Community College pull […]
Recapping: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 2: Willkommen in Bruch Schlecht
Disclaimer: Due to a welcome distraction, my viewing of this week’s Breaking Bad episode, “Madrigal,” was halfhearted, half-eyed, not “up to snuff,” which I suppose is “down from snuff.” Concurrently, Noni has taken up residency in my Mom’s room […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Dark Knight Rises
Has there ever been a wholly successful cinematic trilogy? On purely financial terms, of course. The current marquee dominance of reboots and sequels and sequels to sequels is a direct result of consistent, staggering commercial […]
Recapping: Breaking Bad Season 5 Episode 1: Happy Birthday, Mr. Lambert
We are breaking back good, America. Income inequality worsens by the second. Lawyers run two-for-one family specials for filing for divorce and bankruptcy simultaneously. The death knell of culture gongs endlessly in the streets, deadening […]
What Carmen’s Bringing to Garbapalooza
There comes a time in every alt millenial life when time constraints and baggage fees force one to reevaluate the contents of one’s Hershel backpack. One must reduce the gallimaufry therein into the barest, most […]
My Top 5 Dream Hologram Concerts
At last week’s Coachella Valley Music & Art Festival, the essentially dead rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg performed alongside a hologram of the actually dead rapper Tupac Shakur. I was not present at the […]
Critical Analyses: The Flame Alphabet
As a purported graduate student, I’m supposed to satisfy the requirements of my respective courses. I have four courses this semester and each of them is truly a gas and a half. That’s ten total […]
An Open Letter to Instagram Pictures of Food
Dear Instagram Pictures of Food, Like all that is, you did not ask to be. Powers outside your control have thrust you into unwitting existence. But born you were and there is no changing it. […]
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