Space-Age SolutionS for the Oregon Trail Generation

“Are you reading the whole of Shakespeare?” “Re-reading.” “Why?” “I like Shakespeare.” “I like… my cat.” Fortunes of War, BBC, 1987 Way...

Joel Coen opens his pet Shakespeare film with the cryptic title card: When. It is the first word conjured in the play—and the film—by one...

“The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia... No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green...

No Country for Old Men has impressed me and haunted me from the start, when I insisted upon its perfection in a LiveJournal post with my...

A disclaimer: my back has been hurting horribly for the past two days (maybe I'm not made for all those daily handstands and cartwheels...

Recently, in a bout of thirty-something millennial malaise, I dug up a CD wallet (remember those?) stuffed with discs containing full...

March is Women’s History month in a handful of English-speaking countries, and it’s Film Theory month at my house, and one of my books...

Ever wonder what’s broadcasting in Mumbai this afternoon? Or playing on the Classic Hits station in Amsterdam? Why is Billy Joel playing...

Still drawing, still reading about random things. HOT TAKE: Song Kang-ho represents humanity. Hopefully, by now, many people know him...

Compared to this day one year ago, today has proven mercifully uneventful. It began a little differently—my parents had stayed the night...

SHIT I AM PROUD OF: Not turning into a pathetic husk of myself after my six-year relationship evaporated on January 1st, 2020. God knows...

My friend Annie called me last night and triumphantly informed me that "OMG the power and internet is back... we're watching...

So you may have heard that sales of George Orwell's "1984" shot up a billion percent (actually Amazon's reported it as 7,000%) these...

Honestly, I'd rather overhear someone say this about me than "That single mother takes better care of her orchids than she does her own...

I think pretty much every American has a little anglophilia in them. In fact, King George might not have gone so mad if he knew that in a...

I just picked this illustration because the dude with the fro looks like Malcolm Gladwell. And I felt like name-dropping Malcolm...

As I inch closer to achieving my 34th year in just a few weeks' time, the reality of how my generation's pop cultural domain is...

Sorry for not updating in three weeks, but I was distracted by just how poetic and hypnotic that exploding 2016 GIF truly is... and just...