Tonight, freed temporarily from problem set deadlines, I went to a screening of “Beyond Beats and Rhythms“, a new documentary about masculinity in hip-hop culture. It was really well done and has many interesting insights even if you are already fairly media-literate–get your hands on it if you can!
I won’t summarize the movie since the [...]

Dear Girl-in-Miniskirt-and-Stilettoes,
I looked up the weather just now. It is 19 degrees Fahrenheit, but with the wind chill feels like 9. That’s -12 degrees Celsius. Negative. As in, below freezing. In case you were otherwise occupied during Valentine’s Day and didn’t know, it has also recently snowslushed, leaving large patches of smooth frozen hazard all [...]

I bet you all know what my favorite letter is. X, of course. X. Ecks. Ehhh…kssss. Sehcksy letter, isn’t it?
X is an underrepresented letter. It lives in the alphabet ghetto, tucked between its two slightly more middle class neighbors W and Y. When playing Scrabble, X has a bounty on its head of 8 points, [...]