You’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter. Your child is using it. Your co-worker is using it. People on the news talk about different celebrities and politicians “tweeting,” and you’re wondering what all the fuss is about. What, exactly, is it, and how can you get on board? Should you even want to? I’m writing …
Dear Ms. Bornstein, We don’t know each other very well, but we walk in some shared circles. Today, I saw you in a classroom at the Lesbians in the 70s conference up at CLAGS. My best friend and I had walked in late to the class, one we’d actually been denied entry to earlier. Instead, …
A Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World I went to see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World tonight with measured expectations. I thought it looked cute and quirky and like it might do some formally interesting things. And it did do that — walking me through the video game conventions of my childhood with ironic …
Film Review of Gregory Bayne’s “Person of Interest” (2010), with commentary on the plight of the “good man” as he struggles to defuse the violence of his hegemonic privilege.