Saturday Night Live Open Thread
I. Prehistory: When I was in middle school, everyone watched Saturday Night Live. Or, everyone with a television did. There were certainly students in my school whose families couldn’t afford one....
View ArticleMoscow Cat Circus as Metaphor for Life
Some days it feels like life is nothing more than two thin rods balanced on the shoulders of young women and we are crawling along those rods on our hands while a Russian clown grabs our legs and...
View ArticleOn the Wonder of the Electric Guitar and The World’s Best Guitarist
For Christmas, 1989, my mother gave me an electric guitar. The sound it made was profound in ways that my 14 year-old self could not express, which is surprising considering the reputation for...
View ArticleUCLA Student Teaches the World About Manners
Look, I’m not a racist, but white people really need to learn some manners. (Thanks for the tip Huckabeast and Werttrew)
View ArticlePerhaps Our Parents Just Want Us Dead
I often think about how my father didn’t take much time out to play with me. Sure, he let me touch a skeleton once and he would take me down to the train station to throw rocks at the boxcars, but...
View ArticleA Hedgehog Reviews Battle: Los Angeles
Here is a hedgehog’s review of Battle: Los Angeles. My review of the film will be up later in the day, but I have to say, I agree with many of the points that she makes.
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Kentucky’s Place in the History of Hip Hop
Hip hop was invented in 1791 by Col. James Harrod, founder of the Fort Harrod settlement in what is now Mercer County, Kentucky. One evening, Col. Harrod took a bite of some stew that was not to his...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace Interview Outtakes
I read Infinite Jest over Christmas break after my first semester of law school. Actually, I started during finals and it is reflected on my transcript. I read the bulk of the book on a treadmill in a...
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What is the HTML for “Vomit”?: A Review of Battle: Los Angeles
1. Introduction: From nearly the moment the theater darkened, I realized that a movie about the complete destruction of a city on the Pacific Ocean was maybe not what I was in the mood for and that I...
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And Now It Is Time To Rest
The idea of living in a haunted house appeals to me. I like the idea that my home, the boring bricks and warped windows that each day don’t seem to add up to anything special, might harbor a secret...
View ArticleMeet Today’s Guest Blogger: Mans
A long time ago, in central Kentucky, a young woman and a young man had sex and then some months after that, I was born. I had a full head of hair, parted on the left, and the nurses liked to hold me...
View ArticleDas Unheimliche
[videoembed size="full_width" alignment="center"][/videoembed] When I was a young boy, a Spider-Man poster hung on my closet door for a short time. My parents ended up having to take it down because it...
View ArticleHappy Pi Day
Have I ever mentioned that I know all of the digits of Pi? They are 3.141...(coughs rest of digits into hand nonchalantly). Oh look, a pie! … More »
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