An essay I wrote for my "Metaphysical Messages" class. The original had footnotes, which I don't feel like figuring out how to format in lj, so they're rendered here in brackets and small text (to differentiate them from the copious amounts of parentheticals I seem to use these days). This was written for a comics skeptic, so apologies for anything ( Read more... )

Today I am writing an essay about Alan Moore for class. I am actually having Stendahl paroxyms looking at Watchmen. It's like a combination between a panic attack and an orgasm. It feels really bizarre.

I've always been really affected by the book, but I'm having a really hard time writing about it. Reason being that there is so much to notice, ( Read more... )

Dear Jennifer Dawn Graham ( Read more... )

Here's my reading list from this year, linked to reviews when I've written them.

Contemporary-ish Novels
1. Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan 
2.Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
3. Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
4. Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
6. The Echo Maker by ( Read more... )

...that my adaptation of The Diamond in the Window become at some point a bit conflated with Gaiman's Sandman.

That's all right. I console myself with the knowledge that Gaiman was doing the Jungian cha-cha from the get go. So I'm not stealing. I'm tapping into the collective unconscious.

(And proving myself a gothy little fan girl.)