Green Skin, Red Masks: TMNT and Identity Politics in America
Can you transform yourself to reform society? What if it’s an involuntary transformation? And what if it’s a bodacious transformation?
Thoughts on the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
These are hard times, not end times.
Open Thread for October 29, 2010
Jon Stewart, The Walking Dead, Saw 3D and a shout-out to our peeps.
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NY Comic-Con 2010: Video Retrospective
in which I try to make sense of Wario dancing to Michael Jackson, anime dancers, and an accordion-playing Boba Fett in the Big Apple.
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Horror Worth Watching: Zé do Caixão
The first post in a very occasional series finds Stokes spelunking in the grotty subconscious of Brazilian horror legend José Mojica Marins.
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The Saw Marketing People Steal TWO Old Playstation Ads
News flash: the makers of Saw 7 may be running low on ideas.
The Shocking Complexity of the Saw Movies
And you thought Inception was tricky.
The Female Character Flowchart, Overthought
I’ve been asked by a few people to write a follow-up to the Female Character Flowchart piece that went up a couple of weeks ago, so here it is. First, I would like to thank those of you who added … Continued
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Open Thread for October 22, 2010
Keep on a-rockin’ me, baby. In TV news, U.S. President Barack Obama is all over the place. Not only did he tape an episode of The Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, revisiting a myth about Archimedes, but he’ll be appearing on The … Continued
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The End of a Permian Affair: Evolutionary History in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Was the Cambrian explosion an economic bubble?
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