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On Seeing Louie C.K. Last Night
reviewingcriticism: After seeing Louie C.K. perform last night in Boston, I had what I don’t want to call a “revelation” because that sounds pretentious to me but that’s what it was.  Actually, I’ll be honest, I had a pretentious revelation about Louie C.K’s comedy last night and I’d like to share it with anyone willing to read it. Part of what makes Louie C.K. so great is his ability to...
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Challenging American Attitudes: HBO, the...
reviewingcriticism: Prologue: The Intro’s Intro As a general rule of creative composition, I believe that a more focused essay, album, novel or film is superior to one more mazy and unwieldy in almost every case. That being said, what lay before you, dear reader, is a blog post of quite some length. To put it simply, this post really got away from me. I could have split this up into a few shorter...
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June 2012
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Why Most Criticism of Girls Misses The Point...
reviewingcriticism: I am bewildered by the race based criticism of HBO’s Girls.  Critics seem to have located a kind of brazen venom in the lack of minority representation on the show.  As Hanlon’s razor goes, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.  Lena Dunham has admitted that the whiteness of the show’s four leads was an honest mistake.   The apology, of...
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Reading Antigone
Me: Okay, who do you want to be?
Student: I want to be Snoop Dogg
Me: Snoop Dogg isn't in Antigone, choose again.
Student: I guess I'll be Creon.
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“Let’s borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via artshouldnotbeperfect)
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I want a man who sends me books the way other men...
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