1. I complained in my original response to BSG's finale that it seemed horribly irresponsible to advocate forgetting as a means of heali...

Just as there was back when we were trying to figure out what made certain survivors "special" in the minds of the Others, there...

This show left me feeling confused. And not a good-confused. I felt happy, i suppose, for the characters, but my actual emotional response t...

There's a quite thorough political analysis of the allegorical message of Battlestar Galactica at this blog , though I would stop short ...

About a year ago, I blogged about Facebook and the impossibility of either not friending or de -friending someone on it, especially after y...

[Warning: spoilers abound for those who aren't up to speed on the only two TV shows I'm currently watching] I have but love to share...

[An exchange on Geoff's blog a couple weeks back with someone who didn't like my X-Men paper had me thinking that I need to start wr...

Over on his blog, Geoff Klock is reading David Savran's Taking It Like a Man and pulled the following quote from the book: "[film...

A brief look at the stuff from 2008 that surprised, disappointed, and impressed me. (See my 2007 list here .) Two Surprises 2. Katy Perry - ...

I'm pretty sure that when media theorists praised the democratic potentials of the internet a decade or more ago, they didn't have t...

Like pretty much everyone I've spoken too, I was bored stiff by the poem read by Elizabeth Alexander at Obama's inauguration. It wa...

Actual exchange, while Victoria and I were making lunch during Obama's inaugural address : Obama : "We are a nation of Christians a...

I'm still on strike, but some recent developments have it looking like the strike will soon be over. So I decided to see what the anti-s...

I've been trying to get back into the swing of doing academic work - I'm still on strike, and have been for more than 6 weeks, now -...

Canadian politics have been interesting this past week or two - the newly re-elected Conservative party returned with a slightly larger min...

1) Beyoncé's "If I Were A Boy" (embedding has been disabled by Youtube, so I only have a link) The video for this song, off o...

Pro-Lifers. I don't get why pro-lifers appear to value unborn human life more than, well, born human life. They seem to go to often rid...

I've been on strike since the middle of last week, and it's sapped a lot of my energy - both physically, with respect to waking up ...

One of my very favorite expressions to use is "hetero man-crush", in part because it always gets a laugh from people who've ne...

I watched Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist with some friends two weekends ago. 15 minutes in I knew that it was going to make for an ...