From Fear to Eternity - Gay Representation and Repression |
While both Straight-Jacket and Brokeback Mountain explore similar themes of open and closeted homosexuality, they are represe... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:26:00 PST |
How to Score a Guy in 90 Minutes - Or Things I Learned from 'The Lady Eve' |
While other older films may contain some useful message, such as 'nuclear war is a silly idea' or 'you don't have to compromise yourself to be loved,' The Lady Eve taught me a far more valuable lesson... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:24:00 PST |
Body by Shakespeare: Why the Hanz and Franz of the Renaissance Really Wants to Pump You Up |
While the quickest way to a girl's heart is through compliments (or her gay best friend), the fastest way to literary immortality is eloquent poetry. Combining these two theories, Shakespeare forges a... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:17:00 PST |
Things I Learned from Pat Benatar |
Things I Learned From Pat Benatar
"Love is a Battlefield," Pat Benatar told us in 1983. Yet little did... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:39:00 PST |
Nature Boys - Locke vs. Hobbes |
In an attempt to create an explanation for social constructs and the necessity for the state itself, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke p... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:41:00 PST |
Michaelangelo: Queen of the Stone Age |
In my interpretation, Michelangelo makes two distinct points about the purpose of art with his 1499 and 1555 Pietas, only changing co... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:14:00 PST |
Deep Thoughts with Sei-Shonagon Handey |
Long before 14 year old girls jotted down their feelings on their Xangas or made asinine lists that clogged up everyone's Myspace bul... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:11:00 PST |
Defying Gravity |
In the musical Wicked, Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, tells us "It's time to try defying gravity," to challenge the acceptable limits of the world around us; in her case, the rules of... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 05:56:00 PST |
Is this too much to ask? Seriously now |
I want a boy. A nice and bad boy. A boy who has shaggy hair and lets me play with it.He'll give me his favorite sweatshirt.He'll call me at 3am and ask me what i'm doing.He'll tell me ... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:10:00 PST |
Flotsam, Jetsam now I've got her boys, the Boss is on a roll... |
Aristotle, Odysseus, and Ursula:
Those Poor Unfortunate Souls
In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle maps out a detaile... Posted by Landon [Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers] on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:34:00 PST |