2013-04-23T13:37:40-06:00Emily St. Auberthttp://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01381&title=Upstream-Color2013-04-23T13:31:00-06:002013-04-23T13:31:00-06:00

I don't know how best to describe Upstream Color, except that it is what it shows, a deceptive takeover of the mind which is hypnotically engrossing. The decidedly symbolic narrative is a fusion of...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01380&title=What-the-fuck-is-Chechnya-anyway2013-04-20T18:02:00-06:002013-04-20T18:02:00-06:00

Get the scoop at My Posting Career....

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01379&title=Boston-Marathon-Bombed2013-04-15T15:44:00-06:002013-04-15T15:44:00-06:00

Sensitive, considerate, and not at all "too soon" commentary at My Posting Career....

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01378&title=Roger-Ebert-dead-at-last2013-04-04T22:23:00-06:002013-04-04T22:23:00-06:00

Finally, the chinless freak who most embodied empty, middlebrow film consumption is dead. More could be said about why Roger Ebert is a sharp declension from the peak of film criticism represented...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01377&title=The-Suburbs2013-03-29T16:18:00-06:002013-03-29T16:18:00-06:00

The problem with suburbia isn't sterility (it's where whites moved to have families, so that's an inapt complaint), it is rootlessness. Suburban communities lack a strong identity because they are...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01376&title=World-War-Zombie2013-03-27T12:57:00-06:002013-03-27T12:57:00-06:00

I always wanted to read Hackett's The Third World War but never got around to it. Consciously or unconsciously, World War Z seems to be modeled after it, except instead of being written by a general...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01375&title=Hicks-description-of2013-03-21T17:26:00-06:002013-03-21T17:26:00-06:00

The defining characteristic of a hick is that, despite evidence that he is sheltered and insulated from anything more stimulating than a bingo game, he assumes otherwise because he owns a television...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01374&title=Nerd-Jokes-Cost-Nerd-His-Nerd-Job2013-03-21T12:55:00-06:002013-03-21T12:55:00-06:00

In case you haven't heard the latest nerd news, some nerds made a dorky joke at a nerd conference and an angry black Jewish female (coarser language at link) got all pissy on Twitter about being white...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01373&title=Grandiosity-as-a-feature-of-pre-collapse-political-leadership2013-03-16T12:45:00-06:002013-03-16T12:45:00-06:00

Grandiosity is a very noticeable feature of our current elite. Apart from the massive overspending (with deficits now routinely hitting $1 trillion), the military adventurism, and the expansion rather...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01372&title=Amazing-results-with-one-caveat2013-03-11T09:43:00-06:002013-03-11T09:43:00-06:00

I heard about green coffee bean extract while watching "Dr. Oz", a medical man who gives advice to fat women on his talk show. While Dr. Oz said he never endorses products I believe I saw him wink...