I had my last ever class as a Stanford student today. We spent 90 minutes talking about video game interfaces and the survival horror genre. Which somehow seems like a fitting cap to my undergraduate career. (I think it's a testimony to how sweet this professor is that even though he scheduled a class after the term had technically ended and ( Read more... )

I...probably should have considered how bad I am at horror movies before I signed up to do a presentation on Ringu for my Japanese class. I still would have had to watch it, but at least I wouldn't have had to watch it twice. It didn't seem that scary when I was watching it - I didn't realize how much it had freaked me out until I went to go to the ( Read more... )

Three Things (The Awkward Tuesday Edition ( Read more... )

So, I may have just talked myself into doing an Amy Pond fanvid set to The Princess Who Saved Herself for a video remixing project. In which Amy Pond is the princess, River Song is the witch, the space whale is the dragon, and the prince is that fish alien dude from Vampires in Venice. IT WILL BE AWESOME. Or, you know, complete and utter crack. ( Read more... )

Possibly even more entertaining than seeing representations of the internet on television from the mid-nineties: reading art/film theory about the internet from the mid-nineties. Fascinating stuff, but it is really weird to see a vision of the future projected forward from AOL and geocities, and the changes they talk about never happened, or ( Read more... )

Wednesday - The Good, The Bad, The Utterly Tedious Edition ( Read more... )

So, my remixing class is starting off with a bunch of modern/post-modern art theory essays, and it's...well. See for yourself ( Read more... )

I don't know what kind of alignment the stars were in yesterday to make it such a clusterfuck, but damn. It wasn't even bad, as such, just one of those messy, stupid days where you have to keep checking to make sure you remembered to put on trousers. Mostly because of some major communications fail between the Japanese Department and my brain that ( Read more... )

Three Things (The Rare Happy Monday Edition):

1. I may or may not be writing a story about Jack Wilshere and Aaron Ramsey making a blanket fort in a hotel room in Cardiff after the England-Wales Euro match. Don't look at me like that, it's all
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Well, it may have been a shit week (for various unexciting reasons), but Arsenal won a CL match, my Stegner Fellow said some very complimentary things about my writing, and I got to tell two different people about the time I was the subject of a Baptist sermon. So it wasn't a total wash.

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