#oscars: a tweet poem in snark
[The following are all my tweets/observations from last night's Oscar telecast, widely being considered as the worst in memory. Watch …
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Preliminary Marxist Critique of Superheroes
[What follows is from a class assignment for a critical theory course I took in graduate school. It's in idea …
Fear the Virtual World?
I must make a confession up front: I would never have watched The Ghost Whisperer if it was not for …
Learning to Slash
Ever hear of slash? When I went to graduate school, I was not aware of slash. But I came to …
Clinical Therapy with Buster Keaton
Well, no, not really. I never met the man, the genius, the one of four comedians who can be considered …
A Night with Cinematic Titanic
Before DVDs existed and brought us the director commentary track, this group of men and women were providing an alternative …
The Shadow: The Place for the Crimefighter in American Life
Back in 1997, I was a freshman in college, at the venerable University of Wisconsin at Madison. I went into …
As Video Games Become Art
I know there are arguments out there for and against the idea of “video games as art”. And technically, this …
The Story of The Dark Knight and Its Brethren
Back in the spring of 2007, like other Batman fans who loved Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, I was eagerly awaiting …
Hybrid virtual worlds
When I started with the Virtual Worlds Research Group at Roskilde University in Denmark back in the fall of 2008, …
