Fans of MSNBC political pundit Joe Scarborough, who recently “made waves” with an impassioned tirade about the post-Ferguson demonization of police officers, will be shocked to learn that Mr. Scarborough is actually a talking, human-shaped […]
Tag: Life
Katniss Everdeen: Good Marxist?
The history of all heretofore existing Hunger Games is the history of class struggles. In the post-apocalyptic book and film series, an unfettered bourgeois ruling class known as The Capitol subjugates the larger proletariat population of […]
An EXCLUSIVE Excerpt from Jonathan Franzen’s New Novel “Purity”
If the beautiful, perfect heart in the chest of Philip Roth ever stops beating, which it shouldn’t, Jonathan Franzen will become the greatest living American novelist. When news broke yesterday that Mr. Franzen’s new novel, Purity, […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Interstellar
Christopher Nolan has serious issues with gravity. In both senses of the word, gravity is the unifying force that holds together the dark universe of the caps-intentional Christopher Nolan Blockbuster, damning and defining his films […]
My 2014 Senate Race Predictions
Since November of 2010, the Advanced Analytics Department of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators has been working tirelessly to predict the outcomes of the 2014 Midterm Elections. Using a hybridized version of FiveThirtyEight’s poll consolidation algorithm, which […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Birdman
The (clearly discontinuous) continuous take that presents all of Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) as a single, unbroken shot is meant to recreate the effect of live theater, a literally ancient […]
Song of the Week: “Push” by Lorde
When news broke that Lorde was actually a 40-year-old male geologist from Colorado, not a gothic female middle schooler from New Zealand, many assumed her career would be over. Though much of the success of […]
Who Will Be Our Next Misogynist Monster?
The ever-cresting wave of misogyny currently sweeping the American cultural landscape presses on, gaining momentum by the second, and it may not crash until its mass assures the drowning of every empathy-capable person in this […]
READ MY NOVEL NOW: Chill or Fraud? Chapter Two
For reasons previously iterated, I will be serializing my novel, Chill or Fraud?, in its entirety on this blog. You can read the latest version of the novel’s second chapter, “Gentrified Brooklyn,” by clicking the words below […]
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