Did I already give a blog entry this title? I could swear I did. I could probably go through the archives and check, but that would be Letting the Terrorists Win. (Also, for those of you picking this up on Facebook, I’d just like to maintain that I really do update this every Sunday. Facebook [...]

You know what makes me feel super accomplished? Putting together IKEA furniture. An essay is just, “So what?”, because when you’re done, all you have is a slightly larger Word file on your computer, and you can never finish a story just the way you wanted it when you set out, but with IKEA, it’s [...]

So a few weeks ago, when my cousin Emily was visiting me in Toronto, we went to see the new movie by Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop. And it brought me to this conclusion: I don’t like art.

But first… (teaser beneath the cut):

In my head, the title of this entry is spoken with the same intonation as The Muppet Show’s “Pigs… In… Space!” *ahem* The title actually might as well be “Religion… In… Stories!”, but as I’m Jewish, this is really the only aspect of religion I’m somewhat qualified to blog on. Here’s my basic thesis: we [...]

But first! Happy Easter to all you Christians out there! And for your brief edifitainment, the slightly thematically relevant difference between promos and TV shows: PROMO VOICEOVER: Next week, on House! When Princeton-Plainsboro turns into a hospital of revelations… HOUSE ON THE PROMO: I… have to tell you a secret. AUDIENCE:  Maybe he hooked up [...]

At the climax of Le Petit Prince, our young protagonist tells a garden full of roses just like the precious one he has on his comet, “Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides” – “You are beautiful, but you are empty.”  This is the sentiment that filled my mind watching Tim Burton’s new film, Alice [...]

Disclaimer: any time a familiar story chooses to do an installment from the point of view of a character not the protagonist, I immediately and involuntarily compare it to the Pinky’s POV episode of Pinky and the Brain. You’ve been warned. *sigh* It’s about House again. Sort of. One of the major ways both the [...]

Yes, it’s that time again. The time when I’ve been reading and watching lots of things but none of them have inspired me to a rant. So I’ve written short reviews instead. In retrospect, I think this is closely related to my decision to put off watching the rest of this season of House…

(But first, let me strongly recommend Leonard Mlodinow’s book The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. Awesome.) Before I start these rambling musings inspired by James Cameron’s new movie, Avatar, I should give you two warnings. First, this is not a review of Avatar. It’s an opinion essay that uses the movie as an [...]