Category: Critical Anal

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioMar 3, 201411:54 am

Requested: The Strawberry Criterion: Eleanor & Park

An adult wrote Eleanor & Park to be read by young adults, as S.E. Hilton wrote The Outsiders and Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird. Like those books, its readership quickly expanded to include adults […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioSep 20, 201311:30 am

The Strawberry Criterion: Drake’s Nothing Was The Same

Upon release of album three, what are we to make of Aubrey “Drizzy Drake” Graham, the Kleenex-soft rapper who claims he tops the mohs scale, the fake-friend paranoiac from the bottommost streets of Degrassi, who can’t […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioMay 16, 201310:36 am

Diplo’s Twitter Review of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories: A Review

daft punks new album is streaming on itunes + of course music producer n blackberry spokesman diplo reviewed it on his twitter. this = my review of diplos review. lets go thru his v critically […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioApr 25, 201212:57 am

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 […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioMar 23, 20121:03 pm

Wes Anderson Movie Power Rankings

In high school, I was assigned to write a two-page essay for my Spanish final written exam by my high school Spanish teacher Miss. Something-That-Started-With-I-Believe-a-G. The prompt was: What Is Your Favorite Thing In The […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioMar 16, 20122:18 am

A Case for Divorce: Jim & Pam Halpert from The Office

In my younger and more vulnerable years I wanted for nothing but the romantic union of Jim Halpert and Pam Beesely, two fictional characters on the NBC sitcom The Office. The coalition between self-deprecating salesman […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioMar 9, 201211:40 am

Kony2012 or Peyton Manning: What’s More Important?

Had Peyton Manning received his $28,000,000 roster bonus on Thursday, he could have purchased 933,333 Kony2012 Action Kits. That’s 933,333 Kony2012 t-shirts. That’s 933,333 Kony2012 bracelets, enough bracelets to adorn 116,666 octopuses with Kony2012 bracelets. […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioFeb 15, 20123:16 am

Obligatory Lana Del Rey Post

Sound cannot exist in a vacuum, as image cannot manifest in darkness. These are dependent phenomena, predicated upon and made material by preexisting conditions over which they exercise limited control. In the case of popular […]

Critical Anal by Carmen PetaccioOct 14, 20111:28 am

BREAKING: Exclusive Photos and Analyses from The Upcoming Season of Mad Men

The BPoFD Paparazzos have obtained exclusive on-set photos from the upcoming fifth season of AMC‘s popular television program Mad Men. The show chronicles the volatile lives of men and women working at a Madison Avenue ad agency […]