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Gravity (Movie Review)

Andrew Putnam - October 30, 2013

How do you survive the worst-possible scenario in space and make it back to Earth alive? Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is an engineer on special assignment to fix a prototype component her team built for the Hubble Telescope. Leading the crew is Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), who is field-testing a new Manned Maneuvering Unit on […]

Poor Gift Advice and Other Tangents

Larry Jenkins - December 10, 2012

I am a terrible gift giver. I like to believe that I’m good at thinking about other people, but as I wrestled with this post, I was faced with the possibility that I might, in fact, be a very selfish bastard. When it comes to buying something for other people, I often have no idea […]

At Least My Friends Don’t Sit On My Face

Eliza Jaquays - April 27, 2012

Prioritizing is a pain in the ass. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Something’s going to get pushed back until tomorrow… which comes with its own to-do list. Some things are easy to put first on the agenda. Obviously I’m not going to go into work naked because there […]

Commercial Breaks and Soundtracks

Ashley M. Hill - March 2, 2012

It’s all music and television for me. Though not together. That’s just silly. I’m really into television as a medium. I will marathon a television show just so I can watch a whole story unfold at once; it’s the closest we get to novels in a visual format, if novels had filler episodes. (It’s not […]

You Influence Me, You Really Influence Me

R.L. Naquin - February 29, 2012

Everything I see, everything I do, eat, touch, and hear influences my writing in some way. Television gives me an idea of what works and what doesn’t in character reactions and motivations. Sometimes If I can figure out within the first five minutes of a show who the murderer is, maybe something went wrong in […]