Another bizarre year come and gone, in what has proven to be the slowest conceivable apocalypse. Why dwell on it more? I just skimmed through my Favorite Fifteen lists of years passed, and they are all so morose. It’s not undeserved, but why not talk about some good stuff? …

Favorite Fifteen — My 2020 in Film Yaknow, I thought 2019 was rough. I won’t harp on it too long, but 2020 has been unfathomable on literally every level, needlessly (re: predictably) worsened by a political system that, frankly, does not have any of our best interests in mind. At the time of this writing, I am…

It’s been a rough one. I’ve spent most of this year down and out, working odd jobs while trying to finish my undergrad. Surprise surprise, it wasn’t easy! I’m okay, though. I’m happy to be writing this as a college graduate with two whole-ass degrees, and a burning desire to…

Publishing this here, still riding high on the news out of UNLV’s Honors Celebration, where it won third place. Really happy with that! I think this essay really pulled me apart and spit me out, so I’m really glad that it paid off. Congrats to my sweet girlfriend, Hannah Tran…

It’s the end of the year and I’m feeling pretty weird. 2018 was really heavy and I could feel our collective orbit tilt just a little more off-axis than usual. I know it’s been strange for me, at least. I changed jobs and started pursuing a second Bachelor’s degree (this…

(This article was originally published in Vol. 35 №7 of “Freethought Today”, which is published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation at FFRF.org. Thanks to them for publishing it. They do great work, and have for 40 years. I am re-posting it here for my personal reference.) I did not…

*** Hey dudes! Been a minute. I thought it’d be a funny idea to share with you a paper I wrote about a year ago for a Queer Cinema class. The prompt instructed us to write about a coded queer film. I chose to write about Guillermo del Toro’s PACIFIC…

I had a really lucky year at the movies this time around. From what I understand, Sundance 2017 was a fluke — frozen to hell and healing after the election results, culminating in the inauguration day march that (deservedly) took the spotlight from the films. Cannes 2017 was a sweaty…