What Is A Communications Major?
Attending the usual networking events while searching for a job is something I usually dread. The scene is always the same and the one question always asked of me by some "Shelley Levine in a leisure...
View ArticleA Scooby-Thesis For The Kiddies
Saturday morning cartoons are a part of mass media that has been continuously scoffed at by the academic world. It doesn’t take a philosopher sitting up in an ivory university tower to realize cartoons...
View ArticleTake Tragedy By The Horns For St. Patrick’s Day
Seeing as St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us, and it’s the one day out of the year when you can actually celebrate a “religious holiday” without fear of being persecuted for your sudsy beliefs in a...
View ArticleDear Scrubs: Puh-leeze Come Back For Season 8, Won’t You, Sally?
Listen up, people. Let's forget about Colonel Potter, Radar O’Reilly, and Corporal Klinger, kids, because Scrubs is the “new” After M*A*S*H for Generation X and its situational comedy soul. Not only...
View ArticleAn Ode To Target (Oh Brother, Can You Spare A Five-And-Dime?)
Truth be told, I’m not into shopping. Those more “domesticated” than myself might look at this American consumer spectacle as an Olympic right of passage into adulthood, to be sure. To me, though, it’s...
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Why a Hollywood Adaption of ‘The Atom’ Would Be Smashing
Listen up, Pop Culture Planet, superheroes in modern Hollywood are big business. A billion dollar business. There’s no doubt, they generate more money than Bruce Wayne, Stark Enterprises and LexCorp...
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The Jedi Mind Tricks of ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’
A long time ago, in a release date far, far away… The politics of Star Wars was a lot simpler in my Gen-X day. There was no Twitter universe to navigate for news on the latest and greatest tidbits on...
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‘Mad Men’ and Beyond: A Swan Dive into the Final Season
When we last saw our favorite anti-hero Don Draper, it was 1968. He had been unceremoniously placed on “indefinite leave” by SC&P and left standing in front of his childhood whorehouse-of-a-home....
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Johnny Manziel: The Superman to Save Cleveland?
It was at Glenville high school in Cleveland, Ohio where Joe Shuster first met Jerry Siegel in 1933 and created a bald, villainous, mad man with telepathic superpowers bent on taking over the world...
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The Eternal Question: Is Originality Dead in Hollywood?
Before Luke and Laura. Before the Pet Rock and Crystal Pepsi. Before dinosaurs roamed amusement parks and devoured tourists, box office records and scientists alike, there was always something more —...
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