Posted by in Film Reviews, Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts As a palate cleanser from the low-budget drivial I force myself to consume, I decided to watch The Stronghold, a 2017 film by director Yuri Kovalev. Did it perform its necessary role and remove the sludge from my mouth? Yes, for the most part; aside from the Racism (?), more on that later. First things…Read more »
Posted by in Film Reviews, Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts I guess I’ll never be a top-notch review superstar since it took me several days to work my way through Matt Groening’s new Netflix exclusive series Disenchantment. To be fair, I had a good reason– the show was meh. Now, let me be honest, as a child I, like many others, grew up on Growning’s…Read more »
Posted by in Game Impressions, Modern Culture, Musings, Undergraduate Posts Graveyard Keeper was on my mind ever since I heard about it a couple of months before its August 15 release. It sounded interesting– a more challenging Stardew Valley clone centered on “historically inaccurate” village life. It sounded neat; even more so since it took place in the middle ages. Since this blog is centered…Read more »
Posted by in Modern Culture, Undergraduate Posts Another Anime I enjoyed when I was younger, Bleach was a show which I only gradually came to appreciate in the second season when Ichigo– our default male protagonist– launches an incursion into the Soul Society, that place where all Soul Reapers live and work. Done to save the life of Yukia, the reaper who saved him…Read more »
Posted by in Culture of Days Gone By, Minutia, Undergraduate Posts When we think of poets in contemporary times, what do we imagine? Maybe if we are conservative then a liberal or hippy liberal arts college student, someone spouting fluffy ideas of social-democratic intent; if we are liberal, then maybe we think of the romantic allure of poetry as an art form, foregoing its deeper roots…Read more »
Posted by in Modern Culture, Musings, Undergraduate Posts Back in my adolescence, I, like many young males, loved Anime. Okay, honestly, I didn’t so much “love it” as I enjoyed watching it– I wasn’t exactly what you would call an “otaku”; at the time, the plots seemed so deep and mature and the music– all of which I couldn’t understand– seemed profound in…Read more »
Posted by in Arthurian Mythology, Book Reviews, Undergraduate Posts T.H. White’s “The Sword in the Stone,” is the first book (meaning, section) of his novel The Once and Future King. This is White’s epic re-telling of the King Arthur legend. Since I have only finished the first book (see the Let’s Read which covers the first book—ch.1-24), I cannot comment on the novel as a…Read more »
