Movies Chronicle (**** – liked) My Neighbour Totoro (***** – loved) Books Adult fiction: The Night Circus (**** – liked) Ready Player One (**** – loved) Double Dexter (**** – liked) Adult non-fiction: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (**** – liked) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (****...
Read more →If I went to Hogwarts, I’d want to be Sorted into Slytherin. But not because I like power or ambition, because I see myself as cunning or ruthless, or even because I like the idea of being a “bad girl.”
Read more →(But first, happy birthday to my Aunt Marilyn!) Let me get one thing out of the way: it’s not that I actively dislike Joss Whedon or his work. I recognize that it’s above par in a lot of ways. It’s clever, the banter is snappy, there’s an individualistic touch of whimsy, he challenges stereotypes,...
Read more →Movies Adaptation (**** – liked) Plan 9 From Outer Space (**** – liked) The Secret World of Arrietty (***** – loved) Hugo (**** – liked) Video Games Professor Layton and the Last Specter (**** – liked) Books YA/MG fiction: The Inquisitor’s Apprentice (***** – loved) Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (*** – enjoyed)...
Read more →(Yes, it’s Monday, I know. Sorry. Dissertation stuff not over yet! Allow me to appease you by offering: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Go read it.) Over the past year, I’ve found myself unintentionally becoming a YA novel hipster. As my friends and family get hooked on Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games and...
Read more →In over ten years’ worth of novels, I have written maybe three kissing scenes. (I’ve written more for plays, but that’s kinda cheating, because you just write, “They completely devour each other’s faces with tongue and everything for, like, ten minutes!” and then the actors have to do it. Ha ha ha!) All three...
Read more →But first: happy Passover! Happy Easter! And also, happy birthday to my cousin Seb! Yaaaaaaaay! So, if you don’t want to read the rest of this entry, here’s the bottom line: I am enjoying The Good Wife SO HARD.
Read more →(I’m baaaaack…) Yes, it’s April Fool’s Day. No, this isn’t a joke. This is me writing about what I’ve come to think is one of the most common problematically expressed artistic criticisms on the Internet: the vilifying of Twilight fans manifested in everything from the Star Alliance to the “Still a better love story...
Read more →Me as Costello, Dave as Abbott, and Natalie as the awesome stage manager. Why? Because. (He’s centrefield.) P. S. No, this doesn’t count as the end of hiatus.
Read more →Hey folks, So I thought I could handle recovering from this virus, doing physiotherapy, writing the first draft of my thesis, putting together some short stories, planning my flagship treasure hunt for the summer, taking online courses in cryptography and game theory, playing ice hockey, and keeping up with this blog all at the...
Read more →Sooo… this is turning out to be a super-busy time of year for me. I am privileged to be working on something really cool, and also to be working on something a little more ordinary but really cool nevertheless. However, working on both those things and at the same time recuperating from whatever the...
Read more →Move over, Shaun of the Dead! There’s another game in town. Its name is Pontypool, a 2008 film by Bruce McDonald. I originally rented it from iTunes because it was only 99 cents, and I vaguely recalled hearing some praise of it. I knew there were zombies involved; I put off watching the thing...
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