So there has been some dialogue about the role of mental illness in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting. If mental health care was better could it have been prevented? Are withdrawn violent prone children the future mass murderers of America? Can you determine something like that from early behavioral patterns ( Read more... )

So I read this piece on hating Taylor Swift and I just had to add my 2 cents ( Read more... )

So I'm chewing on my Cloud Atlas experience still. But I've been reading a lot of reviews and interviews, some of which you can find here, here, and here. The reviews I've read so far have been a little underwhelmed. Very much along the lines of, "well it was ambitious but it falls short. The story doesn't cohere enough, it doesn't make 100% sense ( Read more... )

So I was listening to the radio on my way back from the gym and there was an ad on for that new show on the CW called Arrow. You know. 'Cause archery is so in right now. Anyway, I didn't realize wth they were talking about at first because it was some dude describing all the injuries some guy (arrow?) sustained. Like covered in scar tissue and ( Read more... )

Do you know, I've always hated the term tomboy. When I was a kid I would call myself that because it seemed most fitting for how I acted but it never really sat right with me. I think part of it was that I wasn't a boy. I was a girl. I liked being a girl. And it made me so mad that boys got to have all the cool things like being dirty and wearing ( Read more... )

So AV Club as been doing this series in which one of their reviewers rewatches Avatar: The Last Airbender. Some of them are unsatisfactorily cursory while others give me a nice new perspective on the episodes. The recent one, in which we are introduced to the Sun Warriors, had my wondering just how many pan-Asian civilizations the first Avatar ( Read more... )

And now a few thoughts from yours truly. Because ( Read more... )

Edit: This edit is at the top because I would like to direct you to the following video response to Kony 2012 made by a young woman from Uganda. Going back to the ever present theme of many stories and many perspectives, the most important perspective on this entire situation is the perspective of those from the region. There was not enough of that ( Read more... )

So I didn't watch the Oscars. Because I don't have cable anymore. But do you know what I think it's funny and quite telling? So recently a expose came out about the demographics of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Surprising no one it turns out from the data collected the Academy appears to be overwhelmingly white, male, and old. I ( Read more... )

So I saw that the AV Club had done this and I wanted in on the little exercise. The prompt was this:

What fictional character have you developed a crush on?I have serveral actually. Because I just can't choose ya know? But here goes ( Read more... )