I particularly like Keith Olbermann’s take on this issue as he goes to lengths to de-personalize his response, which makes his argument that this is a basic human rights issue all the more compelling. (Not that something cannot be both personal and a human rights issue, but, you know, rhetoric and all that.) To say […]
I hosted a vampire-themed movie night last night, and the first of the two movies on the bill was Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark. Now, Near Dark is one of my favorite horror films, vampire or otherwise, and re-watching it always reminds me why. The landscape shots of west Texas and Oklahoma are beautiful, and the […]
Last week was the Flow Conference, which I did some graphics and organizational work for. I also co-moderated a panel on the role of video game studies in the academy, convened by Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister, co-directors of the Learning Games Initiative.
In addition to the rousing discussion sparked at that roundtable and at […]
The Republican Party has been using “Barracuda,” by Heart to help pimp out Sarah Palin. Unfortunately, the letter making the rounds is a joke from the Stranger.
That said, Heart and Van Halen have both sent cease-and-desist letters to the McCain campaign, stating explicitly that they would not have granted permission for their songs to […]
I think this video works because it plays with the slippage between the homosocial and the homosexual. Also, it’s almost painfully funny.
The video, “I’m Fucking Ben Affleck” is a response to the “I’m Fucking Matt Damon” video that Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon did. In the response video, Jimmy Kimmel says the video is […]