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Day 66: Wrestlemania Week IV: CM Punk

March 29, 2017 phillPop Culture

To start, a weird confessional moment. Several years ago, Julie and I were at Target in Okemos, MI. I always make her duck into the toy department when we’re out shopping because I collect (and[…]

Day 65: Wrestlemania Week III: Chris Jericho

March 28, 2017 phillPop Culture

Y2J is one of the first figures on this list that I watched from the virtual beginning of his career as a “smart” wrestling fan. I never even remotely thought any of Jericho’s career was[…]

Day 64: Wrestlemania Week II: Hulk/Hollywood Hogan

March 27, 2017 phillmemoir

My mom took me to see the match above. We also went to Hara Arena to see the Closed Circuit of WM III, where Hogan first body slammed Andre the Giant. I didn’t exactly know[…]

Day 63: Wrestlemania Week I, my 8 Favorite Wrestlers: Stone Cold Steve Austin

March 26, 2017 phillPop Culture

It’s time to lighten up the ol’ daily grind here on the blog, so in honor of Wrestlemania coming in just seven more days (yay! Super Bowl of wrestling!), I’m going to do an 8[…]

Day 62: The Hill to Die On

March 25, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. -That Shakespeare guy, from Henry[…]

Day 61: A Survivance Manifesto (for all)

March 24, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

“Survivance is an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry.” – Gerald Vizenor, from Manifest[…]

Day 60: Walkabout

March 23, 2017 phillrealtalk

That’s not my house, btw. It’s a stock photo of a sidewalk from ye old Google images. I felt like a random house image was fitting for what I’m writing about today. Generally speaking, it’s[…]

Day 59: The Old Stuff vs. The New School

March 22, 2017 phillrealtalk

I worked a little disgruntled line into one of my posts this past week, and today I wanted to tug a little bit on that thread. It has everything to do with the revisions I[…]

Day 58: So Simulacra

March 22, 2017 phillPop Culture

I don’t know if you’ve seen Logan. I you haven’t, minor spoiler coming. *don’t read* Okay, so in Logan, there are these X-Men comics. But they aren’t real X-Men comics, because that’d be[…]

Day 57: the power of RNG

March 20, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I was reading over this piece about Hearthstone. The concept of four types of randomness in a game is interesting, but what struck me about the piece in particular is the concept of acceptable[…]