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In Defense of Pixar
Disclaimer: Pixar is a studio that can mount its own defense well enough. This article is a response to fellow Screwhead Derek Nahigyan’s Pixar in Review article. In terms of their animated canon, the...
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Child Molestation in Literature is Akin to Cowboys
Expect Child Molestation in Good Literature By: Derek Nahigyan On a trip to China, our lead instructor turned to me and a fellow English graduate and said, “My friends and I had the hardest time...
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Celebrate the Life of Death
A Eulogy to the Grimreaper by: Derek Nahigyan I remember when I first met death…: pale complexion, bony physique, dark robes. He was sitting on the swings by himself at lunch and asked me if I wanted...
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Phallic and Yonic Symbols at Chipotle
phallic handle yonic handle Backwards Sexism @ Chipotle by: Derek Nahigyan Well, this is peculiar. The men’s room has a phallic handle and the women’s room has a yonic symbol. It’s not just this...
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Grand Theft Autonomics
Mortal Kombat causes local stabbing! Marilyn Manson’s Music Caused Columbine shootings! Video Game, Grand Theft Auto Causes Real Violence in Teenagers!(Sternheimer) Attached to these claims are often...
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Dominic Agius Artist Review and Ongoing Introspection
“The path by which we twain did go, Which led by tracts that pleased us well, Thro’ four sweet years arose and fell, From flower to flower, from snow to snow: And we with singing cheer’d the way, And,...
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Ruminations on the 85th Annual Academy Awards
The 2013 Academy Award for Best Actor In A Leading Role went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his magnificent performance in Lincoln, shocking approximately no one. Presenter Meryl Streep didn’t even bother to...
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The Language of Love: A Lust Story
The Language of Love: A Lust Story By Jeffrey Kieviet She lifts her eyes and meets his. Shyly, she glances down and then up. He giggles with his goofy grin and gazes back at her. “Hey, Jeff. She’s...
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Under the Laser
A Story of Sight by Derek Nahigyan If the eyes are a gateway to the soul, LASIK determines the afterlife. Having sight with clarity and color is a lot like dropping 25 pounds in a night, not that I’ve...
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Dante’s Inferno (Circle 3)
Emptiness is a Bluff, There’s Never Enough. By: Derek Nahigyan Decadent Sweets and Fleshy-Red Meats, Every day a feast, Like the night of Grendel’s retreat Oatmeal, Cereal, Fruits at dawn Poured over...
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A Fool & His Money
A Fool & His Money Being A Chronicle of My Fiscal Failures and Monetary Mishaps By Jeffrey Kieviet When I Was 5 Years Old… Remember Bullwinkle’s? Like the moose and the squirrel, that old cartoon?...
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Chess, Worms, Advance Wars, and the “Turn-Based” Video Game
A Look into Critical Thinking as an Exercise in Video Games By: Derek Nahigyan I’ve never played Shogi, but I think foregoing my Eastern audience, I’d like to make the claim now that all people want to...
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For the Love of Sonic the Hedgehog (Part 1)
Table of Contents 1. The Early Years (1991-1994) Memorabilia and fandemonium Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994) Sonic & Knuckles (1994) Sonic CD...
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The Four Horsemen “festival”– In Summation
Today is my birthday. As my gift to you (and myself), here’s an oldy but a goodie. Technically non-fiction, unless we ever open up a tab for Theater Review. From roughly 2007-2008 (2013 in red) The...
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For the Love of Sonic the Hedgehog (Part 2)
“Sonic the Hedgehog is Dead” - Nietzsche (See Sonic Part 1 for the whole story) So from Sonic CD, we see a number of titles that expand Sonic into other genres. Sonic Spinball (1993) which is actually...
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Intentional Fallacy Musing
The Great Intentional Fallacy Compromise: Insight into the Intentional Fallacy and its Paradoxical Success By: Derek Nahigyan Given that films are now, more or less, the novels of the 21st century, the...
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Liebster Award
Thank you Richa Keida for nominating our ragtag group of writers for this award. Liebster Award - “A blogger-to-blogger award that tells a fellow newbie blogger that they are making the world a more...
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Stoker (2013) Review
Though it shares the surname of Dracula’s daddy, Stoker is not a supernatural creature. It is, however, as gothic as it gets. A horror film this weird was sure to alienate mass audiences. Its vague...
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On the Subject of Hemingway
A Look into Visuals, Visions, and Language as Medium By Derek Nahigyan Abstract. A look into reading and writing as a medium. How authors have constantly been aiming to please the “visual” aspect of...
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Why Harry Potter is Not Literature
Abstract. A dissertation on the difference in meaning between “fiction” and “literature.” Literature signifying prose poetics, most evident in literary figures who stand the test of time; longevity...
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