Hello again, fine gentle folk of the Internet! Once again, staring desperately at my DVD collection in search of post ideas has enabled me to scrape together a list of awesome movies! This time around, we're gunna get all meta and shit. "Meta" meaning, of course, movies that are aware that they are movies, and/or… Continue reading Meta Movies
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Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar
It will probably not surprise anyone who reads this blog to learn that I am something of a grammar-phile. I have a small collection of dictionaries and grammar textbooks, and I like to read them for fun. Once, I read a biography of a grammar textbook (Stylized: a Slightly Obsessive History of Strunk & White's… Continue reading Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar
Thunderbirds Are Go!
Yesterday, I gave you all an earful about why you should criticize things that you like, because it is possible for a show to be really and truly excellent and still deeply flawed. Today, we're taking things in a whole other direction, and I am going to tell you about a show that I love… Continue reading Thunderbirds Are Go!
Criticize What You Love
I spend a lot of time criticizing things. You may have noticed, since I'm basically writing a blog where the entire point is to be critical (and snarky, but that's not really on purpose). When I find something that I really like, my first instinct, after I've finished dancing around being thrilled with it, is… Continue reading Criticize What You Love
Psychopaths in Fiction
I've covered a lot of topics over the past couple weeks, what with this post-every-day nonsense (whose idea was this again? Oh yeah, mine), but we still haven't touched on my very favorite subject: villains. I love villains. They are the most interesting part of any story, in my personal opinion, and a story with… Continue reading Psychopaths in Fiction
M.M. Jordahl 