December 2010
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The Nature of a Comic Strip
Calvin and Hobbes was the first comic series I truly remember reading when I was still a kid. Me, my brothers and mum used to bunch together in the bookstore and giggle incessantly at Bill Watterson’s jokes, the cleverness and absurdity that one boy and his tiger could endeavor upon in the course of four panels and the Sunday special. Calvin and Hobbes effectively opened up my world to...
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Capes
After seeing multiple commercials for NBC’s upcoming series The Cape, I can’t help but imagine the hissy fit Edna Mode would have if the writers had pitched the premise to her.
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"Knocked Up," "Revolutionary Road," and Fracking...
For nearly two weeks I have repeatedly sat down at my computer staring aimlessly, hoping for a shred of writing inspiration as the digital clock ticks away, minute by minute, second by second. Multiple drafts have come and go, ideas still circulating within my skull as I try and figure out why Darren Aronofsky and Satoshi Kon have similar and dissimilar directing styles, or why Nolan’s...
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Sunday Roundup – 12/26/10
My post-Christmas movie.
Hello!
To comedically explain why I didn’t meet my Thursday quota, here’s a video link my friend Justin sent me after seeing my exclamations of fatigue!
More honestly though, I’m a bit burnt out: after traveling back home to be with family and the road tripping subsequently, Christmas Eve and Day approached faster than a TARDIS traveling in the...
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TRON: Legacy
I had the good fortune of watching TRON: Legacy this past weekend in IMAX 3D, which is probably the best way to watch any film that is otherwise being shown primarily in 3D (otherwise you can call yourself ripped off by what is otherwise a marketing gimmick). Just a year ago I saw some sneak peek clips and pictures of the film, and was blown away by the sheer design of the costumes and sets. At...
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Sunday Roundup – 12/19/10
How I feel most of the time these day…
Hello world! I am up in a cabin with my family and cousins in Big Bear for a three day snowboarding/skiing trip! The internet is a big jaunty here so there’s a chance I may not have good enough internet to get Tuesday’s post up, but if I can I shall indeedly so!
As I have been writing this the internet has cut multiple times (I count...
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Pokemon for Microbiology
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I promise tomorrow I’ll have some real writing up. I’ll just need to get some sleep s’all.
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"Inception" for Statistics
Sometimes when I’m extremely fatigued, my mind ends up piecing together things that otherwise have no relationship to one another. Not in the least bit. In fact, the correlation coefficient r would either be less than -1 or greater than 1, and then Leonardo DiCaprio would shoot me in the head to wake me up, or at least shut me up because at that point I’d be the annoying...
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Sunday Roundup – 12/12/10
No Q&A this week! This upcoming week will be pretty bad schedule wise, but I’ll try and get something up on Tuesday and Thursday. But if you’d like, check out this Tim Burton TIFF Bell Lightbox commercial bit. Or even the fact that Maru is in a commercial bit because he is a cat god like that. Or play patty cake. Or learn how to traumatize your kid into getting over insomnia. Or...
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In Regards to "The Other"
*Note to all regular readers who are not tumblr users: Tumblr recently suffered from a major outage due to some database issues, rendering all tumblr blogs inaccessible for nearly 24hrs beginning Sunday, December 5th at 6pm E.S.T. Luckily, none of my previous entries have been loss, but I do apologize to anyone trying to access this blog during the database maintenance.
Having watched Black...
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Sunday Roundup – 12/5/10
On Friday, I played soccer with a bunch of friends for the first time in six years. The tendonitis in my left knee swelled up, my legs hurt from all the sprinting, and I kept tripping over myself because I wore running shoes instead of cleats. Today, I watched Black Swan even though I ended up being a row away from the screen, and on the side of the theater for the matter (which I will likely be...
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Why Rated-G doesn't mean Stupid
Having just re-watched Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, I was reminded that rated G films and programs do not need to entail idiotic gags that cater to the stupidest of stupid. Like Sesame Street, Classic Disney and more recently Pixar, Nick Park and Aardman Animation have proven again and again that just because you’re aiming for a G-rating doesn’t mean your jokes can’t be...
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Be Human
To be real is to be mortal; to be human is to love, to dream and to perish.
- A. O. Scott
There’s been a lot of buzz on the internet lately post-The Social Network about whether or not the internet is a bane to our humanity. Enthusiast say it allows connection beyond physical limits, and that it is democracy in the dark; detractors say it allows us to release innate bestial behavior that...