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Nine Things I Want to Rephrase and Then Tell Teenage Girls, and One Thing I’d Like to Tell the Author to Shove Where the Sun Don’t Shine : A Rant
Warning! This is a Rant! If you don’t want to be exposed to strong opinions, mild incoherence, and occasional cussing, don’t read this. Okay? Okay.
RANT: Why Tron >>>> Tron Legacy
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Tron Legacy. But I like Tron better, and was really aggravated by some of the stuff they got wrong in the new one. It’s not the new flick’s clunky, predictable plot (seriously, I called … Continue reading
OMG, can it be? Failbender: Rant the Fourth! It’s BORING and MAKES NO SENSE.
So! After posting Rant Three, I got busy and sick and then sick-and-busy, and not only completely failed to finish and post this, but managed to forget I’d neglected to do so. I blame that on PID and NaNoWriMo. But … Continue reading
Academia, Analysis, and Why I Love Twitter
Some of you know this already, but bear with me. I went to college straight out of high school. I attended Occidental College, as had three other members in two different generations of my family (seriously; my mom, one of … Continue reading
Why I am not Psyched for Rock Band 3
I get asked a lot if I’m excited for Rock Band 3, and I was drafting a long explanation of why my feelings are mixed when I realized I can summarize it very easily: If I wanted to play piano … Continue reading
Failbender Rant The Third: Visual Shittiness
One of the failtastic things about The Last Failbender that really pisses me off is the visual shittiness. Let us consider as our first example, the art of bending. In the cartoon, it looks like this (there’s about 20 minutes … Continue reading
Failbender: Rant the Second! Mythology fail, racefail, and genderfail.
I’m back in the saddle, people! And ready for some more ranting. I feel a lot like Iroh there: RAWRRRR! Let’s dive right in. The sheer amount of fail Twistalan packed into “The Last Airbender” did not miss the amazing … Continue reading
Failbender: Rant the First! Characters and Characterization
Failbender Rant, Part The First So, if you saw my review, you know I hated, hated, HATED “The Last Airbender” (aka “The Last Failbender”). I hated it for a lot of reasons, but they pretty much boil down into two … Continue reading
Ephiphany!
I love having epiphanies. Even when they’re about unpleasant things. In this case, abortion. Abortion has always been a knee-jerk subject for me, and I like poking at knee-jerk subjects. I used to say, “of course it’s a touchy subject … Continue reading
