I bet you thought this was going to be a quasi-scientific, journalistic roadmap to understanding the stupidest words people are using today on the internet. It’s not, sorry. Instead, it’s going to be an argument as to why you should never, ever feel any desire to learn those words, use them, or feel like (your) … Continue reading A Gen-X, Millennial and Baby Boomer Guide to Contemporary Slang
I read an article yesterday in Deadline by Carl Kurlander, the co-writer of the 1985 Joel Schumacher film St. Elmo’s Fire, in which Kurlander reflects on his time before, during and after the film's writing and production, and the affects it maybe had, good and bad, upon the culture of young, urban, professional America. And I got super nostalgic. I was 9 when it came out. The movie was a social phenomenon to my age group. At least in my little part of the world...
Awake early on a Monday, before her eyes could even adjust to the vague light of day, she would reach for her phone and check her Facebook. It had her weather forecast for the day, and it was normally the first thing she absorbed of her surroundings, not long after the anxiety of returning to … Continue reading Just A Facebook Girl in a Facebook World
Anime is anime. If you think you’re just watching a “cartoon,” or mere, over-sexualized, hacky sci-fi nonsense…well, sometimes you are, but that’s never the alpha and the omega of any series. You’re always going to find a surplus of literary goo-gaws involved—those things which make you cry, thrill you, grip you or inspire you in ways you couldn't have been otherwise...
There seem to be four types of Star Wars movie-goers these days. 1.) Those who, by virtue of being too old or too young, have no emotional investment in the films. 2.) Those who saw the films as kids, desperately wanted the new trilogy to satisfy their thirty-year-dormant Star Wars jones, and found that it did...