Ten-dollars worth of nihilism

As I battle the unholy combination of impulsively long writing and too much content in the form of video game mechanics and aesthetics for my first Gaming in American Culture paper, it's about time for a break. Because my 4-6 page restriction has long since been surpassed by a 10-page first draft, and I'm electing …

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 …

Jason and Dara explore Netflix’s ‘explained.’

Mom took me down a rabbit hole I wasn't expecting to go down today. A Netflix documentary rabbit hole. But not any sort of traditional documentaries. No, we've been watching the series of mini-documentaries produced by Vox for Netflix called "explained." Technically it's more like "_____, explained," as each episode takes a different subject and …