Today someone came in with an assignment to analyze Plato's "Allegory of the Cave." The Greek philosophers are already difficult enough to understand (I will forever despise them), but the essay prompt was equally vague (asking you to "consider this" and "consider that," but never spelling out what to do). I think it's unfair to assign ( Read more... )

A brief look at the latest season two Sonny ep. It's taking me a while to get used to Chad's hair and you can tell that poor Sterling Knight was sick during filming, but I love that the Chad-Sonny relationship has the go-ahead.( more, under the cut... )

I'm probably the worse updater in the history of the internet--whether its for livejournal, or just writing in general. It's kind of sad, since it would be interesting to have a cataloge of the things (lit & otherwise) that have interested me since 2008 (when this was last updated). Though to be fair, I think that other than posting something that ( Read more... )

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Phillips, Jerry. "The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections on the Class Politics of The Secret Garden."

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by Arlene Mosel 
Publisher: "Arlene Mosel retells an old Chinese folktale about how the people of China came to give their children short names after traditionally giving their "first and honored" sons grand, long names... "

"What's in a name? A great deal, according to the Chinese of long ago, who honored their "first and honored" son with a grand ( Read more... )

"...The [fairy] court was not in its usual good temper at present, the cause being the tantalising heart of the Duke of Christmas Daisies. He was an Oriental fairy, very poorly of a dreadful complaint, namely, inability to love, and though he had tried many ladies in many lands he could not fall in love with one of them.

Queen Mab, who rules in the ( Read more... )

In true ironic fashion, I've spent the last five days of my Spring Break with the flu. No fun trip to Disneyland, no outside whatsoever. Just me, my pillow, and a box of tissues ( Read more... )

I'm left feeling pretty sad about the whole thing, for a number of reasons. Though there were certainly a number of well executed features.

Please, read my ramblings below. Note: SPOILERS for the finale, if you haven't seen it.

The episode certainly had its strong points:

John's little chat with Lorne at the start.

The desert sand engulfing the ( Read more... )

I think Michael has become my favorite character in Atlantis. And not just because of Connor Trinneer (though that's a pretty big part of it).

His past is so sordid. I always worry when Michael appears that he will be reduced to a clichéd villain, out for nothing more than revenge and a little shock factor. His character has the potential for so ( Read more... )

I should probably offer an explanation for my very, very long absence. In all honesty, though, I can't say it was anything beyond the normal laziness and lack of time.

Lately I've been thinking that I'd like to have a place to chronicle my two cents, and this seems as good a place as any. On a side note, I was sick of the ads so I changed to a ( Read more... )