WARNING: Spoilers for S6E12 of Better Call Saul. The thing about Jimmy is that he has an uncanny knack for reading a room. When eulogizing Richard Nixon, Hunter S. Thompson wrote that “he looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio […]
Continua a leggere "Jimmy McGill can’t be sincere"I dislike anime. There, I said it. I screamed it into the metaphorical pillow of the uninterrupted flow of media that is the internet. And it’s not like my opinion matters enough for anyone to get in arms over it, but let me take some time to unpack what I just wrote. First of all, […]
Continua a leggere "The Endless Summer of Evangelion"Well, here goes nothing. As is the case with many other people, I’ve lived most of my life consuming works of fiction, in the form of novels, poetry, or (especially) filmed media. I’m a millennial, born early enough to witness the last minutes of the televised generation before computer stopped being a geek’s domain, but […]
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The Heat Goes On 