Shaun of the Dead, earning just one star on Netflix, was a long, tedious end-of-the-semester letdown. (I can hear those of you cheering, “Finally, Kim suffers!” 
I’m sure we’ll discuss in class just how cleverly postmodern the film is, yet I’m painfully aware that without an affinity for zombie flicks I’m missing the lifeblood and guts of the [...]
The town gets renamed Struggle?
It’s honest. Too honest. It gets the hairs up on the back of my neck. I suddenly realize I’m not comfortable with all that honesty, perhaps because it’s such a rare occurrence.
This novel brings to mind how many times I’ve cringed at names while searching for a place to live. Having [...]
(My apologies for the late arrival of this misfired synapse. I hit “save” rather than “publish” on Friday. ‘Tis the season for abnormally high levels of brain drain.)
Whitehead draws some interesting connections between renaming a town, an adhesive bandage and a toy village. When asked about the town, our narrator says:
Winthrop is a traditional place-name, [...]
What’s in a name? In Apex Hides the Hurt, Whitehead’s narrator becomes a nomenclature consultant, stumbling upon the power of naming things while between jobs. He learns that a powerful and persuasive identity emerges once a product is named and the one who creates the name is also empowered. Prior to the naming, both the [...]
The following is a rambling research proposal of sorts.
In my paper, I’ll be examining the film “The Last King of Scotland.” The movie is about a 1970’s real Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, whose life is exposed through his relationship with the main character, a fictional Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan. Garrigan, although based on the collective real men in Amin’s council, varies in [...]
SPOILER WARNING!
The grand finale of Galatea 2.2 has gummed up my works. Too much input. My neural net is still churning and I mean this in the most profound and complimentary way.
In the end, the joke is on everyone. The true bet between Lentz, Powers and the scientific team is never whether a machine can [...]
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