I liked this movie. (Maybe from now on I'll just post "hey, here's a thing I liked." Huzzah for low-content posts.) This was my favourite exchange: The Driver (Ryan Gosling) and Benicio (Kaden Leos) are watching cartoons while Irene (Carey Mulligan) gets ready. The... In Linguistics and Poetics, Roman Jakobson describes six functions of language. The phatic function of language is language whose function is essentially contact, language for the sake of language, regardless of signification. Anyone who owns a cat understands the... (Note that at the time of writing this post, only four books have been released in what is expected to be a seven-book series. Also note that there are some spoilers towards the end of this post, which I've indicated with a rather prominent warning.) One of the unique... I am not a fan of the vampire craze in today's media, because I think that vampires are being horribly misused. Being bitten by a vampire should be a very bad thing, not simply the means by which one gets a fun superpower. If you want to write about vampires, you can... "A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in the lake is not immediately to swim to the shore, but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do no work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothens and... I'm studying Ivanhoe right now, and I came across some interesting articles about the book and its connection to a real-life trial by combat... in 1817. So I thought I would blog about the details, because though I think it is really interesting it will probably never... I started a post comparing the writing habits of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and Ernest Hemingway, but I found that for each writer the most interesting theme about their writing was unique to them. Trollope is a machine. Dickens is concerned primarily with his... So I got to wondering what would happen if ebook publishers somehow had a bunch of money to make ebooks really awesome (instead of kind of lame, poorly formatted, and with limiting DRMs). What would some of the advantages of ebooks be in an ideal world? Email your... Back in high school, one of my English teachers gave us "Teddy" by J.D. Salinger to read and then talk about in class, and at the end of the term he put Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" on the final exam. (And on a high school English lit final that's just...
Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
Cats and the phatic function of language
Point of View, Subjectivity, and Otherness in A Song of Ice and Fire
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion)
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and Real-Life Trial by Combat
Writing habits: Anthony Trollope
Advantages of ebooks (in an ideal world)
Unpublished, hard-to-find short stories by J.D. Salinger
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I like cookies soft, and most Peanut Butter Cookies do not fulfill this criteria. Too much peanut butter seems to mess up the consistency... yet the actual taste of peanut butter is so good. These cookies are my solution. The taste of peanut butter is not... Fact: Peanut butter is the best thing that exists. When I was in Europe almost no one I talked to had tried peanut butter. The one person I talked to about peanut butter who had tried it thought it was really weird and not very good. For breakfast people would give me... This cookie is great because it is chocolate chip and it is huge. I would compare it in size to a hockey puck. I got the recipe from here at vanilla sugar, but I took out the nuts, added an ounce of chocolate, and also ground some of the chocolate before adding it to...
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chip Cookies
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