Stairway to 7th Heaven: My Favorite Video Game Music of this Generation

*Sniff* People are making bold assertions. Just because the Wii U was released, surely my Xbox 360 is on its last leg too! It seems as good a time as any to start coming to terms with the Seventh Generation as a thing of the past. Enough about speculation, let’s talk some music. Going into [...]

OI Week 2: Supply Closets and Proscenium Gymnasiums

For the second week of tour, we stayed at an AmericInn in Cedar Rapids while taking on nine separate schools across the district, all sponsored by the Linn-Mar School Foundation. That’s a whopping total of nine performances of The Three Little Pigs and nine sets of workshops over the course of your typical five-day school week. And [...]

OI Week 1: #BlackoutBowl and #StuffedMushrooms

3rd Quarter, 14:49 to go, Ravens return the ball for 109 yards in the first eleven seconds of the half, likely clinching a Super Bowl victory for the Baltimore Ravens and insuring the rest of the game would be the most meh. Until the Superdome got blackout! Holy shit, this is some Dark Knight Rises realness, and [...]

An Eye Rolled ‘Round the World, or How One Gif Says It All

Gawker is a beautiful thing and a beautiful place. Like Pandora, Gawker is that kind of Internet universe that makes a person go, “woah, you know me all too well!” For some of us, we liken these sites to our very best friends. It is on a site like Gawker that a gif alone can [...]

More Than Just Noise: The Theatricality of Gaming

All the world’s a stage…  (This article refers to a project I did in a directing workshop at Princeton University in the Fall of 2010 semester) I am passionate about many things in my life. Among these include playwriting, singing, and acting, three disciplines that fall under the broader category of theatre in the most [...]

Some not so Politically Correct Holiday Humor

Just a tiny bit of backstory… I too succumbed to the Shit Girls Say obsession, and my favorite by far was Shit Spanish Girls Say. I suppose to say Hispanic would be more PC, but I didn’t make the title, and political correctness is already down the tubes by virtue of me taking the ten minutes to give [...]

POP Goes the Console

Writing this opening sentence marks my beating the next generation installment of Prince of Persia for the Xbox 360 (or PS3 depending on one’s predilections) as of two minutes ago. Legitimately the credits are rolling. And I am most displeased. Turns out, Prince of Persia, POP for short, was little else than that. Pop for the video game [...]

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