I was on tumblr just now, as per usual, and a post featuring the Disney song "Gaston" happened to scroll by. I didn't even listen to it, but such is the insidiousness of Disney music that it's been stuck in my head for the past hour and a half, and in my unwilling contemplation of… Continue reading A Close Reading of Gaston; or, Why Disney Also Sucks for Boys
Category: Musing
Why We Need Conventions
If any of you lovely readers (can I call you readers if you mostly consist of family members who feel obligated to read whatever words I string together?) are somehow still unaware despite my mad twitter activity, this past weekend was Emerald City Comicon--the one weekend a year when Seattle nerds come together to be… Continue reading Why We Need Conventions
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Oh god. I am the worst blogger ever. In my defense, I have been writing two movie reviews a week, and that sort of took up my two-posts-a-week writing time. You should definitely go see what I've been up to on Flickboom. :D (Prometheus, Snow White and the Huntsman, Madagascar 3 and Earthbound are my… Continue reading Title (optional) <–because wordpress suggested it
Unemployment
As most of you have likely already heard, considering that my readership consists entirely of my parents and a few close friends, I got laid off yesterday. "Laid off," is such a euphemism, but it's probably the best descriptor of what happened. Basically, the company I worked for reorganized, which resulted in my department, and… Continue reading Unemployment
The Internet is a Strange and Lovely Place
I haven't really talked about my work on this blog, except to say that I have a job (and I am quite fortunate in that regard). I'm not going to go into elaborate detail about what, exactly, my job entails here, largely because it's all about being sneaky (like a ninja) on the Internet, but… Continue reading The Internet is a Strange and Lovely Place
M.M. Jordahl 