Less “gladiator porn” than “porn with gladiators”. I don’t do violence as easily as before Sue’s killing. Walking Dead was expired from the watchlist pretty much immediately. I tried Game of Thrones at one point, but couldn’t make it through the first episode without being sickened. Spartacus is an...

The Channel Islands work goes on and on (and on). Some of the writing expectations were pretty hardcore- one prof in particular got easily over 70 pages between the three classes of hers that I took. The first two of those classes were in my first semester, which was...

There was some real luck here. Between work and classes and procrastination, time was really down to the wire. Fortunately I’d chosen one of the few texts that had been written in the last 50 years, and it wasn’t even an original thing. So all I had to do...

I’m working thru SGU again so I’ll get to that one. Yesterday was Iron Man day. The first one still holds up really well, considering everything it introduces. The third on the other hand is among Marvel’s worst. I have fond memories of IM, we opened Glendale with that...

I don’t really watch the news, not least because I don’t have any kind of cable media coming into this place. The news is less important anyways than how it is incorporated. This has been true all along, but the last four years have made it painfully obvious. By...

In theory I should have a Woodbury category, if I’m going to do PCC and CSUCI on their own. But that just complicates distinctions between writing and other work. Besides, I never finished that program anyway. Graphic Design at the time was as much Aldus as it was Adobe....

You thought the Khan thing was fanboy? I wasted some quarantine time revisiting the OG Transformers, the 1980’s originals. I was a big fan at the time, and the characters have obviously lived on, but every update I’ve seen has had something especially dumb going on. When I went...

No fear, no Black planets either. I’ve been spending some time watching the Marvel films through quarantine goggles. Thor didn’t really hit his stride until ‘Ragnarok’, but ‘Dark World’ has been unfairly shelved. The first Thor has probably aged the worst. Branagh was a good choice for director, he...

Haha, these responses got shorter as the semester went on. From a solid two pages down to one. Still this was just English 1C, so my bigger problem was typos… Lori Andrews’ exploration of the illusion of online privacy occupies a rhetorical space similar to earlier readings on campus...

This class really had a ton of writing. Fixed some glaring typos, but left the obscure ending. The line I was drawing between philosophers and mental patients isn’t as clear as I’d like, but oh well. Foucault’s exploration of Bentham’s fictional “Panopticon” is utilitarianism at its brutal finest. The...