Last week I talked about a panel of women who discussed their writing careers in comedy. Comedy is an intriguing form of entertainment in terms of the creative process. Everyone has a different sense of humor. Someone might be in tears from laughter while someone will go "why was that funny?" Then there's the question: can somebody become funny or is it something that happens … [Read more...] about Girls on Film: A Golden Age of Comedy?
Archives for 2013
Man, Machine, and Mars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sara Clayton is a junior at the University of Southern California studying public relations with double minors in web technologies and mobile app development. It seems that mankind has been portrayed as always having been at odds with artificial intelligence, or AI. Take the sci-fi film I, Robot: Del Spooner (Will Smith) … [Read more...] about Man, Machine, and Mars
The Book Is on the Table: This Is Not about Discrimination
Brazil practices one of the most radical affirmative action laws in South America. It reserves 50 percent of spots in public universities for public high school students who are also economically underprivileged minorities. However, public high school students are usually rejected from public universities not because they are being discriminated against, but because public … [Read more...] about The Book Is on the Table: This Is Not about Discrimination
Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
I don't suppose anyone's heard of this little movie that's coming out in a couple of days... It's called "Catching Fires" or something?... I dunno, it really doesn't seem like a big deal. Don't think anyone of note is in it either... JOKES GUYS, JOKES. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't feeling the whole post-"Hunger Games" movie realness for a while, but a couple of weeks … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
One Nation Under Who?: No Touching My Gun. Or Marijuana. Or Gay Marriage.
It is sobering that shootings in the United States now go relatively unnoticed, other than a racially-charged shooting that makes it to the mainstream press, such as Trayvon Martin’s death or Renisha McBride’s death, or the deaths of children such as in Newtown, Connecticut. But even when these shootings take place and the inevitable dialogue about “what we could have done” … [Read more...] about One Nation Under Who?: No Touching My Gun. Or Marijuana. Or Gay Marriage.