American Zombie: The Walking Dead and Urban Flight
Everyone thinks they’ll be safe from the zombies outside the city. But they never are.
In Defense of One-Dimensional Characters
How do you solve a problem like Cassandra?
Open Thread for November 12, 2010
Call of Duty Black Ops, Conan’s return, Taylor Swift and Dino de Laurentiis.
What Makes Minecraft So Addictive?
Can I get a golfclap for resisting the “Victory is Minecraft” pun in the title?
Archetype or Stereotype?
Is there a point where you can’t just say “Come on, guys, it’s intertextual!”
The Musical Talmud: Economic Themes in “Mine” by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift on social mobility, private property, and rebellion of maintaining the status quo.
Is Outsourced Racist?
More importantly, how do we know whether a show is racist or not?
Open Thread for November 5, 2010
For relaxing times, make it Open Thread time. I promise this is the last time we’ll talk about Lil Wayne for a while: Lil Wayne released from prison yesterday! Young Money Records is throwing a massive party for him on … Continued
Not Ready For Primetime: Cast Sizes in 30 Rock and Studio 60
Do the casts of “30 Rock” and “Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip” seem awfully small to you?
The Best of All Possible Die Hards
If Die Hard had gone with one of its two alternate leads, or one of its two alternate plots, what would it have looked like?
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