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It strikes me that most of my posts so far have been about animated/illustrated sci-fi/fantasy entities. I'll get to more live action/"real world" (ha) iterations later. But for now... back to animation we go. The other night, I was talking to some friends about anime because there's no bad time to start discussing your favorite Japanese animated series, especially not … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: See You Space Cowboy

A Gallup poll published in January 2013 found that forty-seven percent of Americans identified with the Democratic Party and forty-two percent of Americans identified with Republicans[1]. Within this seemingly binary split is a split within the Republican Party—the Tea Party and so-called establishment Republicans. Americans, since the rise of the Tea Party in 2010, has seen an … [Read more...] about One Nation Under Who?: Scientists Are Evil.

 Last week, I was acting in a scene for my friend's directing class. The way the class works is the director works with his or her actors on a scene, they perform it in class, and the professor and other students give advice on how to better the scene and work on the rehearsal process. The scene chosen was from "Sex, Lies and Videotape." The movie tells the story of a man … [Read more...] about Girls on Film: The Repetitive Friendship

What would you do if you found out that your friends were secretly reading your Facebook messages whenever you left the room during a study session? Just taking your computer when you weren’t looking and reading all your private exchanges. And then, upon getting caught when you returned after taking a shorter time brewing your tea than usual, they all took turns denying reading … [Read more...] about Mickey D’s and WMDs: Abandon Ship, the RMS Merkel