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Fame Day: American Literary Piracy
As I’ve already mentioned in a previous post, I’m back in school, so I feel like it’s my duty to share some awesome learning with you. After the piracy debate broke out between Evan and Gordon a little...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E5 “And the Cronuts”: A TV Review
I’m not going to bore you all with the same old “this show has lost its premise” talk again; we’re past that, it is now the topic that shall not be named. What I do want to focus on, however, is how...
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Shame Day: Bob Kane
Let’s start things off with a question. Who here likes Batman? Oh, yes, Commissioner Gordon? Thank you for that very thorough answer, James. But you know what else is important, and begs asking when we...
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A Show By Any Other Name Would Be Just A Spin-off
“There is nothing new in art except talent,” words by Anton Chekhov that I was forced to look up because I’ve already cited Ecclesiastes in a prior post. They’re also words that I feel forced to grasp...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E7 “And the Girlfriend Experience”: A TV Review
First thing’s first, I had every expectation that this episode was going to be super duper racist. It was not, but I’ll get to that in a bit because of how much of a big deal my second point is: Dang,...
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The Importance of Ms. Marvel as Immigrant Literature
I can think of no better way to introduce this subject than with Stephen Colbert’s reaction to the news: Before I continue I want to point out that the original Captain Marvel was a Kree alien who...
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Shame Day: Avicii and “Wake Me Up”
Sometime last month a friend of mine on Facebook posted the following status: “So wake me up when it’s all over, when I’m wiser when I’m older. ~ Avicci” As a person who only really catches up on pop...
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Looking At Primer
Last week I mentioned that I had stumbled across an online publication called Primer, marketing itself as a young man’s magazine for coping with life after college. I noted it bore a lot of...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E9 “And the Pastry Porn”: A TV Review
You know how I’m always whining about how this show has no momentum as far as its story and how all I really want is for the characters to head in basically any direction? It’s like this entire...
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What is the Meaning of “Life of Brian”?
In spite of swearing off Family Guy roughly three years ago due to feeling like the show’s creators had zero respect for their audience I watched an episode today for a single reason which Gordon...
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Shame Day: Shia LaBeouf
Writing the first Shame Day of 2014 is a difficult position to be in. The topic must be the source of some terrible wrongdoing, but must also have committed that wrongdoing in a way that truly incenses...
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Helix and the Trouble with Tropes
Good science fiction is tough to come by. There’re plenty of factors we could point the finger at for that, but more often than not, it seems the people who produce sci-fi just don’t quite understand...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E13 “And the Big But”: A TV Review
Welcome back to the CWR 2 Broke Girls Reviews, everyone! Did you miss the show? Did you miss me [writing about the show]? I’m going to say upfront that I appreciated the break like nothing else, and...
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Writing Issues
Well readers, I bring the joyous news that you can now, at long last, read the scribblings of yours truly on two internet sites. Primer magazine, which I reviewed in the past, was kind enough to...
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Grammarly: An Online Platform Review
I tried Grammarly’s check grammar free of charge because, well, let’s just say that I’ve been skeptical of any sort of program that claims to be able to assist or improve writing. Sure, I write a fair...
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Write Off, Write On
I’ve read all four Twilight books. Would have checked out Midnight Sun, a retelling of the first novel from Edward’s perspective, but a copy was leaked online and Meyers never ended up releasing it....
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The Heroes Effect
Nobody would blame you for not remembering Heroes. The show’s stint at the top was so short and its tailspin into oblivion was so swift and violent that it’s once glorious reputation and critical...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E18 “And the Near Death Experience”: A TV Review
This week opens up with the strangely comforting scene of a table of eccentric [see: easily mockable] diners and the two girls’ reactions to them. Instead of hipsters or, I don’t know, bronies, we...
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2 Broke Girls, S3E19 “And the Kilt Trip”: A TV Review
Right at the end of 2011 Todd VanDerWerff, who I unofficially inherited these reviews from after Pilot Viruet passed the torch, wrote an article on the AV Club discussing how some shows on TV existed...
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What Do We Want From America [In Terms of Diversity]?
As I was walking around doing errands yesterday I began to muse on one of my favourite topics: diversity in media. While this could’ve been a very pleasant stroll on an afternoon that felt much more...
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