The… Anti-Summer 2018 Initiative?

Greetings and salutations. As you may have noticed, things have been a little different around here recently. A little more barren. Don't worry, it's not a symptom of finally running out of ideas. I did that about a year ago and wrote about my pencil set. Nor is it some delusion that my Naruto-Arena post …

The Super Smash Bros. Cinematic Universe

As many of you have seen, a trailer for Paramount's upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog movie dropped today. It's terrifying. But more than it is terrifying, the trailer feels frustrating. There's a whole lot of missed potential from what I can see as a casual fan of the series, and I spent a fair amount of time …

Schrödinger’s @

This little premise is probably something that could be served better as a brief question on Twitter, but I figured I would pose a more elaborate version on the off-chance I get interesting responses beyond the shelf life of a tweet. It's undeniable that the language of social media has injected itself into our common …

The Umbrella Academy precipitates to the top

I don't talk about seasons of television very often when reviewing things. More self-contained projects like movies tend to be easier to watch and digest, in my experience. But it has been a while since I've seen a binge-watchable show that hit me quite as hard as The Umbrella Academy. So much so that I …

“Hey Siri…”

I'll be honest, it has been a little hard to get motivated to do much of anything today. Last night there was a shooting at a bowling alley called Gable House Bowl in Torrance, which hit pretty much all the big news outlets. Shootings like this are always a tragedy, but this one hit pretty …

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 …

Hanukkah came early this year

The latter half of this Thanksgiving Break has included a lot of media binging with my family. So much so, in fact, that I had planned on writing something today which could serve as miniature reviews of "Daredevil" season 3 on Netflix and "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" on Amazon Prime. But then we wound …

Preparing for the Big Hunt

Yesterday I slept for about 17 hours. Was real sick when I woke up, enough so that I wasn't able to make it out to the SPJ Long Beach Post tour. Or write a blog post at all. Frankly the only thing I'd say I accomplished yesterday was sending a few emails and binging the Emma …

Some blockchain with your breakfast

One of these days, Alice. Bang Zoom. Straight to the Fire Emblem post. But not today. Because I'll be honest, I've never come across a summoning banner that I've felt more apathetic for. The surrounding update is pretty cool, but I care so little for the new heroes that it's actually difficult to find the …

Out of the Frying Pan…

Thanks to everyone for indulging me in taking a couple days off from writing these things so I could spend time with my Grandma before she left for Florida again tonight. Yesterday especially we spent a bunch of time together going to breakfast and watching a movie before going to a revolving sushi bar to …