In part due to high-profile cases like the prosecution of the founders of Pirate Bay and, more recently, the American attempt to legislate the Internet via SOPA and PIPA, the subject of online piracy has become ubiquitous. I’ve never figured out where I stand on piracy — in fact, I…
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…
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.”
(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…
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…
(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…
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…
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.
(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…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iDcIY9c5WQ 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.