We’re through the Endgame

For days, all I've heard about Avengers: Endgame is that it is perfect. There was not a single bad thing said about the 22nd Marvel Cinematic Universe film. That couldn't be true. This movie is three-hours long. It simultaneously culminates two-dozen films, sequelizes a massive blockbuster and ends stories for characters we've known over 10 …

Another day, another exam

The first day back from Spring Break went off pretty well all things considered! Last night I expressed some concern about a Cognitive Psychology exam that would be greeting me after a week of lazing around. My feelings were mixed about it. On the one hand I gave the material zero attention over the break …

Captain Marvel is an excellent, if flawed, lynchpin for the MCU

So, guess who just saw Captain Marvel? The movie which Meninism Magazine voted worst blight on masculinity since Paul Feig's Ghostbusters. I kid. Any relation to real-life absurdist magazines or misogynistic straw polls is purely coincidental. It's just hilarious to me how reactionary the hate for this movie has been leading up to its release. But that's …

Ice cream passover

After Aly won big at the Dos Pueblos Jazz Festival last night, I decided it would only be appropriate to celebrate by taking her out for ice cream. Thus, this beautiful image of us together was born. The girl and I actually spent most of the day together. Waking up relatively early to make breakfast …

50 shades of analysis

So I just flew in from Fullerton, and boy are my arms tired! ... Does that joke work over text? I guess the more important question is whether that joke works considering I drove to-and-from Fullerton instead of flying, but nobody knows that. And if I have my way, they never will. Anyway, today was …

Balance is key

As promised earlier, my time to go radio silent for finals has come and (hopefully) gone. This weekend was just a bit too full of work for me to spend extra time coming up with blog post topics. That said, it was a very productive weekend! I finished my nine page paper for Evolution and …

A post-Stan Lee world

I don't know that I had anything planned to talk about today amid a storm of homework I've been putting off. But once I saw this news come through, I knew there was really only one thing I could do: Pay tribute. Within the last hour or so, rumors began to trickle around Twitter that …

Overheard at a Starbucks counter

For all intents and purposes, this morning has kind of been a bust. I'm going to spend a good chunk of this post complaining before getting to the fun Starbucks bit, as a fair warning. I woke up extra early today, around 6:00 a.m. or so, that way I could commute to campus and show …

Repeat Offenders

I'm having a strange sense of déjà vu this semester. A couple of my class have given me assignments this week that are pretty much identical to other assignments I've had in previous courses — one of which I've seen at least three times now, in fact. That third-time returning assignment (the one that I …

Script Doctoring at its finest

If I haven't made it totally obvious around here, I like movies. I like movies a lot. A good chunk of that love comes from my dad, who was a pretty serious actor for a while and continues to work in the movie industry, currently for Fandango as I've discussed in the past. Thanks to …