Sunday, May 31, 2015

The Music of the Deaf

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When I was a student at UCSD in the early 2000’s, I took a linguistics course on "Sign Language and Its Culture." This was an intr...
Monday, May 11, 2015

Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, 2015)

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The most glaring issue with the first Avengers (2012) was, of course, its failure to account for War Machine. As Loki and his Chitauri army...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

Kitten – "Like a Stranger" / "I'll Be Your Girl" (Live at Amoeba Music)

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Chloe Chaidez of the band Kitten performing a soul-baring two-song acoustic set at the Hollywood Amoeba : https://youtu.be/ghW-mNWZk6Q Kitt...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

What Game of Thrones could learn from anime (but probably shouldn't)

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Hard to believe that we are now into the fifth season of HBO’s Game of Thrones . Which also means that we are approaching ever closer to tha...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Final Fantasy Record Keeper (DeNA, Square Enix, 2015)

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(Updated on September 12, 2016) About a year and a half on since I summed up Final Fantasy Record Keeper as “a good diversion for abou...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

What's the matter with Star Wars canon?

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From IGN , the new paperback edition of last year’s Star Wars Rebels prequel novel, A New Dawn , apparently includes a timeline listing the...
Monday, March 16, 2015

The Wrong Side of 30

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The following is fiction... maybe. "How is it that I work fewer hours now than I ever have at any other point in my adult life, and at ...