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Day 260: In case you forgot America has a race problem…

October 9, 2017 phillPop Culture

I travel for a day and all the sudden really obviously racist things happen. My travel compatriot showed me this at breakfast. The video seems to be gone forever, so all we have are the[…]

Day 246: Rick and Morty hitting on the truth of this era

September 26, 2017 phillPop Culture

I keep promising myself I won’t make the claim that I’ve found genius in another funny romp from Dan Harmon-and-his-friends (I know Justin is the technical creator, but Rick IS Dan Harmon), but last night,[…]

Day 241: the simulacra fissure

September 21, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

As a person who studies the rhetoric of identity, I find myself endlessly interested in how professional wrestlers handle their “kayfabe”– or in-character– identities and then their “regular” identities. For some, it blurs greatly. John[…]

Day 239: Rick and Morty and the meaning of life

September 18, 2017 phillArmchair phillosophy

First off, I’m not going to start with the Rick and Morty fan meme from Reddit, talking about how you have to be smart to like Rick And Morty. Because you don’t need to be[…]

Day 222: Madden season

September 1, 2017 phillgames

I sometimes think of it as my gamer-shame, but one of my favorite gaming moments every year is loading up the new version of Madden and taking my up-and-down Colts team through the motions. It’s[…]

Day 221: Cop Outs and Half-Steps or Why The Status Quo is the status quo

September 1, 2017 phillPop Culture

Marvel Comics just wrapped up Secret Empire, the event that CHANGED EVERYTHING. When this started, for those who remember, it was revealed that Captain America was a naz… Hydra Agent. And a being named Kobik,[…]

Day 217: And we're baaaack…

August 28, 2017 phillPop Culture

Tomorrow is the first day of our academic semester here at Miami, our welcome to the class of 2021. First of all… Now that I’ve made a Sealab 2021 joke, I want to do my[…]

Day 214: How Dany was done right, how Dany is done wrong

August 25, 2017 phillPop Culture

Yesterday I introduced the idea that either the storyline on GoT for Daenerys Targaryen (from here forward Dany, since that name is torture to type) changed dramatically right around the point that George RR Martin’s books[…]

Day 213: Those Thrones and those games

August 24, 2017 phillPop Culture

So I made a Facebook post today teasing a lesson I’m developing. It went a little something like… There will be spoilers. Turn back if you’re not up-to-date on Game of Thrones. Seriously. I’m about[…]

Day 206: If you think your Khaleesi is a feminist hero…

August 17, 2017 phillPop Culture

Today I wanted to take an ever-so-slight break from being overtly political (I can’t seem to find the results of the CCCC Exec vote anyway, and after working all day I’m a little on the[…]