What does masculinity even mean anymore in 2021? I think the term “be a man” means something much different to our sons than it did to our fathers and grandfathers, who lived in a society much more preoccupied with the appearance of manliness and attempting to desperately fulfill gender constructs than we are in this […]
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May the Source Be With You
Podcasts, streams and shows, August edition
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. I’ve noticed things seem to be almost completely back to normal even though the Delta variant has started rearing its ugly head. But they’re not normal. I know it’s easier to think they are, but there are still many bare shelves at grocery stores and a lot of […]
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Personal Journals
Bo Burnham is alone inside
“I don’t know about you guys, but, um, you know, I’ve been thinking recently that…that you know, maybe, um, allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit …you know, maybe that was, uh…a bad call by us. Maybe…maybe the…the flattening of the entire subjective human experience into a…lifeless exchange […]
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Do the Right Sing
“In the Heights” brings Broadway home
I didn’t know this before yesterday, but apparently musicals are an acquired taste. I thought everyone liked musicals. Isn’t “The Sound of Music” one of the most popular movies of all time? I also don’t know a single human person who doesn’t love “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” or “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” With all […]
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May the Source Be With You
June Edition: A prediction for “Sweet Tooth,”
a comforting podcast from “Frasier”
Happy beginnings of summer, everyone. Now that blockbusters are starting to hit movie theaters again and people are actually going to them (sorry “Tenet”), it feels like things are getting back to normal more than ever. Since I’m a sucker for the theatrical experience, I’ve been psyching myself up for entering the public sector again […]
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“French Exit” Slips Away When You Least Expect It
It’s always fun in cinema and television to watch obscenely rich and out-of-touch people lose all of their money and then have to live like us normals. It’s a huge reason why shows like “Arrested Development” and “Schitt’s Creek” were so popular from the jump. But the reasons why shows like that had staying power […]
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The Hunt For B-Movie Perfection
”Shadow in the Cloud” is a ridiculous delight
I miss the communal experience of bad movies…maybe more than the communal experience of good ones. So, because I’m me, I went on a hunt for a brand new, January 2021 release on VOD that looked so bad that I might hopefully be able to recapture that lost feeling.