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  • Review: Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (SPOILERS)

    Who the fuck is this? Major spoilers ahead. Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the year’s bravest piece of storytelling. More than any other movie, it throws out all storytelling conventions completely. Tired tropes like “characters making rational decisions,” “conflict,” and “an ending” are eschewed in favor of its own brand of vampires-having-conversations entertainment. When…

  • Disguises

    I love Halloween. It pushes people to leave their comfort zones by trying out a new identity for a while. Since Halloween costumes disguise people’s identies, I had the hilarious thought that they could be called by what they are:   But then today I went shopping for my disguise, and discovered that I was…

  • Book Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go, by Patrick Ness

    There are a whole lot of ideas flying around in The Knife of Never Letting Go. The central premise is that men can hear each other’s thoughts, constantly giving off what they call “Noise.” That’d be enough to keep things interesting, but then other ideas are layered on top of it: it takes place on…