According to Rolling Stone, Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball is the best album released this year. Why? Because of lyrics like: Gambling man rolls the dice, working man pays the bill. It's still fat and easy up on banker's hill. They "rage at corporate oligarchy and...
Author: SEK
I know I'm supposed to be covering the conservative insanity beat, but I'm not sure I can do it anymore. I just don't know what to do with arguments like.
CAT limps meekly up to SEK, who is sitting at his desk grading. CAT: Hi. SEK: Hello. CAT: Legs no work. SEK: You don't say. CAT: Wrestled packing tape. SEK:.
SEK spies an OLD LADY being crushed by the Christmas tree she's trying to remove from the roof of her car. SEK: Do you need some help with that? OLD LADY: Yes, some would be nice. SEK: Let me take that. SEK accepts far more...
Earlier in the quarter, I introduced my students to the anything-that's-longer-than-it-is-wide mode of psychoanalytic criticism. Not very sophisticated, I know, but it helps explain the historical context of certain rhetorical.
Money is racist [NOTE: This counts as my version of the apparently mandated Wednesday Lincoln post.]
Mine is, at least. The woman at the toll booth said she couldn't accept it because it's been "defaced." Now, it's racist, obviously, but it clearly hasn't been defaced so.
SEK'S STUDENTS: So we had this idea for our project, like a live-action, flash mob reenactment of "LEEROY JENKINS!" where we find like some random students studying or in the park and— SEK: Let me stop you there. You're going to surprise random students— SEK'S...
In the summer of 1968, Charles Schulz—born today in 1922—decided not to take the path of least resistance. In the first months of the Presidential race, the politics of Peanuts.
SEK is inside his apartment being forced (by proximity) to listen to children playing basketball on the court adjacent to his porch. CHILD #1: Pass the ball! CHILD #2: I'M.
My cat Sigmund: Between swatting at Sanchez (0:27) and turning his head in disgust at the image of Tebow (0:56), I think he's at least earned himself an interview.
As I noted in my first post about this course, one of the signal elements of high fantasy as a genre is the presence of a coming-of-age narrative, and Game.
My close-reading instincts typically compel me to focus on scenes more than structure, and that's not necessarily a good thing. So let's talk about structure from the point of view.