The evolution of cinema began in the late nineteenth century and ends this very weekend, with the release of John Carter. Based upon Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Barsoom series, which details the exploits of a Virginian Civil […]
Is HBO’s Luck Worth Watching?
On Wednesdays I attend my “Criticism as Literary Genre” class, which constitutes the two most dishearteningly boring hours of my week. When I’m left to ponder why people don’t value reading as they once did, I […]
A Letter to My Son Part 4: A Picture for Wilson
This is a picture of Wilson. Obviously, a photo at all involving my face will pale in wonder to this photo, but I’m going to try, over the next day or so, to wrangle a […]
A Letter to My Son Part 3: Drafting
This post references heavily two prior posts. The first can be read by clicking these clickable words, while the second can be read by clicking these clickable words. Composition as process is dying. At the time of this […]
A Letter to My Son Part 2: My Interests
Suggestion: Elucidate what’s going on below by clicking what you’re reading here. As further charity, Children’s International suggests nine topics of conversation to touch upon in your letter to your sponsored child. They are: Gardening, Cooking, Music, […]
A Letter to My Son
As a consequence of my being, I regularly find myself plodding hungover through the streets of New York City, and, by way of this custom, on a nondescript October morning, I was to become a […]
David Foster Wallace: Still Dead, Still a Rockstar
February 21st is David Foster Wallace’s birthday. Today is February 22nd. I have no idea whose birthday it is today. This is my favorite passage from INFINITE JEST: “The temperature had fallen with the sun. […]
Late on the Uptake: Who Was The Greatest American President?
William Henry Harrison, I salute you and the glorious cosmic irony of your Presidency. From your heroics during The Battle of Tippecanoe, to the thirty-two days you spent in office, dying of pneumonia, you forevermore […]
The Worth & Mirth of Downton Abbey & Television In General
If time is the scarcest, most precious commodity known, then we, as the conscious-cursed allocators of said commodity, imbue whatever we choose to spend time on with a certain worth. Logic follows: television has worth […]
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