I’m sure you’ve heard this expression once or twice before, dear readers, but I’m gonna throw it at you again, because it’s relevant for today’s topic. A lot can change in a month. You can be on top of the world one minute, and then you’re struggling for air the next. After all, nothing in…
Being yourself has become such a cliche that I literally cannot even, dear readers. I just literally cannot even. Sorry, bad habit from dating someone in their early twenties. Such a beautiful create who is still figuring herself out and doesn’t really know what she wants out of life yet. Someone who is exploring the open…
Sometimes people confuse talent with potential. Potential is aptitude not yet realized, but talent is an expression which is right in front of us. Yes, talent can be reigned in, developed, focused, nurtured, etc. But the real question of the day is, can we recognize talent when it does something a little bit left of…
I watched American Beauty this past week, and it made me cry dear readers. It wasn’t something I was expecting, but I suspect the movie just opened me up to the experience of addressing some hard feelings I had about love, loss and hate. If you’ve seen the movie, I think you’ll know what I’m…
Human beings are unique from animals in that we have the ability to voice our opinions and change the world around us. We can create and we can destroy, we alter the world with the objects we use on a continuous basis. From computers, to clothing, to houses, to vehicles, to entertainment, we really do…
Come on everybody, I say now, let’s play a game. I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name. K-Days! K-Days, K-Days bo B-Days Bonana fanna fo F-Days Fee fy mo M-Days K-Days! Well actually it doesn’t really work there, because it’s a truncated word, but it was still a fun exercise in naming. And speaking…
Growing up is hard to do. Or to if I were to rip it off of a writer like E. E. Cummings, it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Which is why Peter Pan never did it, why Peter Pan syndrome is real, and it’s also why we don’t all get there….
Common to absurdist thought are elements of satire, agnosticism, and nihilism. The art form rose up in the late nineteenth century, with philosopher types like Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Kurt Vonnegut leading the way. Now if you are looking for some more memorable and mainstream examples of absurdist thought via film, then I’ll happily include some….
There is this fantastic track by NOFX called Mattersville. That they are in my top five punk bands of all time should have no bearing on this. Now you should know, when this song was first released in the early oughts, it made me nostalgic for my youth while I was still in my formative…
This has gotta be the good life, we’re all still young enough to say that right? Right! The city is on fire and there is a feeling you can’t fight, so I know that means we should get out there and watch the day turn into night, because after that who knows what’ll happen. Well…