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Instead of doing any kind of productive work tonight I stayed up and watched Bravo’s 100 Years 100 Movie Quotes. Somewhat predictably, Clark Gable’s “Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn” took the number one spot. I don’t disagree with that choice, but a list like that is extremely subjective, and while I can […]

For some inexplicable reason the past few weeks I’ve been obsessed with “The Lady of Shalott” by Tennyson. I love the way Tennyson manages to create the sense of the pastoral and the elegiac simultaneously in the poem: The beauty of Camelot; the isolation of Shalott; the Platonic notions of reality; the agency to overcome […]

I’ve spoken before about the inherent nerdiness of bloggers, and a story today reminded me just how much we nerds hold it against one of our own if they try to ascend the social ladder. For the past three days blogger “Dawn Yang” has been one of the most talked about people on the blogs. […]

I was talking with some friends last Thursday night about the hot angel sex Raphel describes to Adam in book 8 of Paradise Lost and”¦wait, you didn’t know hot angel sex was discussed in Paradise Lost? You thought Milton was an old fuddy-duddy who never wrote anything titillating? You’re definitely wrong, and unfortunately you’re missing […]

I’m away from my computer so bloggery may slow down a little till Sunday. I know some of you may find this little separation tough, but just look at our time apart as a way for your heart to grow fonder towards me.

I passed my M.A. exam!! I’m so damn happy. Now unless I royally screw up the two classes I’m taking I’ll proudly receive my M.A. in English in December.

Many years ago when I took a journalism class one of the things I remember learning was that the most vocal and impassioned voices heard in the media usually come from minority groups, and centrists don’t usually become the focus of news stories. The theory was that the folks who were repressed or marginalized usually […]

I’m sick and tired of the FCC haphazardly and indiscriminately regulating our television programs. We don’t even get to elect the puritanical nit-wits who censor our favorite shows. Do you even know how the FCC investigates claims of indecency? They only begin an investigation if someone writes a piece of snail mail, not email, to […]

Broadcast and Cable recently published a report conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation which claims that since 1998 sex scenes in television shows have more than doubled. That’s 5 sex scenes an hour. Yahoo has also picked up the story. For a minute I thought “Dammit”¦I’m watching the wrong television shows and the wrong stations!” […]

Scott Adams published a funny little post about writer’s block over at his immensely entertaining blog. Scott says that people frequently ask him if he ever gets writer’s block, and he says the question they should be asking him is how do you get past writer’s block? I’m particularly fond of this quote taken from […]