Dialectic on Overthinking It

High, Hungry or Hobbit?

fenzel Featured, movies December 18th, 2012 7:00am

A look at the visual cues that flavor the The Unexpected Journey.

Red on the Ledger: The Avengers and Sexual Violence

fenzel Featured, movies May 8th, 2012 7:00am

How Whedon/Johanssens’s Black Widow advances heroic symbolism and political discourse around survivors of sexual violence.

Thoughts on the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

fenzel culture, Featured, politics, TV November 1st, 2010 7:00am

These are hard times, not end times.

The Devil In You And Me: Making the Metal Sign

Mark Lee culture, Featured, music May 18th, 2010 7:10am

Satan! Sex! Heavy Metal! Dialectic!

The Musical Talmud: Morning After Dark (Timbaland, featuring ShoShy and Nellie Furtado)

fenzel Featured, music March 16th, 2010 7:00am

Timbaland drives a stake through the heart of the vampire phenomenon.

Fenzel on Dragon Ball #3: Metonymy and Metaphor

fenzel comics, Featured August 12th, 2009 7:16am

Nothing says “Strongest in the Universe” like proper command of figures of speech!

Super Smash Bible

fenzel Featured, video games July 15th, 2009 9:14am

Can Nintendo characters make EVERYTHING more fun?

Pixar’s Up: Paradise Lost at Paradise Falls

fenzel books, Featured, movies, music June 3rd, 2009 10:16am

What goes Up must come down.

When is a rogue not a rogue? When he’s Jack Bauer.

fenzel Featured, TV March 18th, 2009 8:39am

Breaking the rules in a methodical and systematic sort of way.

The Hipster and the Hippocampus

fenzel culture, Featured December 18th, 2008 8:43am

Why the reason you like your Thundercats shirt now is fundamentally different from why you liked your Thundercats shirt in 2002. Plus: Why ’90s techno will never die.