With MTV’s love of teenage pregnancy, tonight’s episode of Awkward. should come as no surprise to anyone. That’s right, it’s all about sex, and if the majority of what these characters seem to think is true then I have no idea why there aren’t any pregnant girls roaming the halls of this school. Kids today […]
Read more "TV Rants & Ramblings: Awkward. 2.6 – “What Comes First: Sex or Love?”"While readers find peace in the natural beauty of the Pacific Crest Trail and Strayed’s enchanting prose, Strayed searches for peace with herself and her life.
Read more "Book Review: Wild – From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed"You are probably all familiar with the boldly emblazoned (and often bedazzled) word “PINK” festooned across the seats of sweatpants from the ever popular Victoria’s Secret PINK collection. “LOVE PINK” is the motto many girls’ rumps loudly proclaim as they saunter by! And why shouldn’t we “LOVE PINK?”
Read more "Book Review: Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein"We are well past the halfway point of the year, and since we are now in a musical drought as of late, I’ve decided to go back and listen to some albums that I might have ignored. This is either because I didn’t get a chance to listen to it before it came out, didn’t […]
Read more "Music Wrap-Up: Early 2012"With Christmas, New Year’s, and now Valentine’s Day down, Awkward seems to be making a run at using the most holidays in a half season. But if that’s what it takes to dish out fun episodes, then feel free to use those coming up, from St. Patrick’s Day to Mother’s day (I think last week’s […]
Read more "TV Rants & Ramblings: Awkward. 2.5 – “My Love Is A Black Heart”"Who would’ve thought, looking back to almost a year and a half ago that there would not only be the chaos taking place in Egypt but also the protesting going on in Wisconsin, oh and I almost forgot, all of this was going on right around Valentine’s Day! Aaron Sorkin demonstrates for us once again […]
Read more "TV Without Commercials: Newsroom 1.5"I am probably one of the few English majors that graduated without ever reading any Ernest Hemingway in college or high school. I’m not exactly sure how I managed that, but it is what it is.
Read more "Book Review: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain"It’s been a while since I’ve read Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson, so I’ll keep this brief. This book and its stories (originally published on her blog) were pretty funny. It took me a while to look past the fact that Lawson drops the word “totally” about every […]
Read more "Book Review: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson"Zac: The Dark Knight Rises supposedly brings us to the end of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, and the reactions to it have been fairly positive for the most part (Zac’s Review). Still, the latest Batman film leaves a lot to be discussed and Lauren and I have decided to get into spoilers to see what […]
Read more "Dissecting The Dark Knight Rises: Ending Nolan’s Batman"If there is any one fact that is true when describing the music of Passion Pit, it’s catchy. Since their debut EP dropped in 2008, they have been consistent in dropping enjoyable electronic alternative pop music (if there ever was such a genre). However, when it came to their full first album, 2009’s Manners, only […]
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