Ok. So, last nights' season finale of Heroes was the first one I watched quasi-live. The other twenty two episodes, I watched on the NBC website. And if you haven't watched any of Heroes and don't want to have the season finale (which the previous year has been building to from the very first episode, in a way which (I think) is unlike any other ( Read more... )

The thing about a zombie film, a proper zombie film, is that it should build dread, not horror.

Because, as we discussed last class, humanity is fucked from the get-go. The Ring doesn't tell you that. Halloween doesn't. Nightmare on Elm Street doesn't. I Know What... Well, it made 72.5 million dollars; that's a pretty clear sign that we're doomed. ( Read more... )

OK. Time to review every book in the history of ever. Go!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie: I'd been reading this over the course of a few weeks. I don't know when I started it; I finished it on the second trip we took to the Great Wall of China, back on the seventh of April. It was...

Well, it's a good story, about the ( Read more... )

I can honestly say I'm more prepared for finals than I was yesterday.

Unfortunately? I'm eighty-three words more prepared.

I've wasted time worse: we finished the Dungeons and Dragons campaign, which I will no doubt describe later. But I still am slightly worried. At this point, Ive still got more studying and writing than I really want to do. I ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back home, at long last. Feels nice; there's been a lot of changes, and my room has been rearanged, and its' a lot colder than DC, which makes sense, but otherwise, it's great ( Read more... )