Decade-end Wonder
While I can’t stop reading these lists or listening to decade-end podcasts, I’m not so sure music should be categorized or ranked this way.
Frozen, Again
Like so many great dynasties before it, Disney’s empire is built on a chorus of tiny voices.
Holiday Fluff
It’s hardly the holidays without it.
On the Way
Days like these, I can’t follow a podcast, and music sounds too loud, the tempo much faster than I remembered, the lyrics and storytelling much less compelling.
(How I Learned) The Language of Taste
Then he gave me a straw and told me to taste it. He drew a line with his finger up the side of his cheek, towards his ear.
Ban More Books! The Peril of the Unexamined Shelf
Making all good books permissible has the same ironically virtue-dulling effect as safe, didactic stories.
The Villainization of Effeminacy in Classic Gay Literature (or My Literary Squad)
I think that there are plenty of things within the gay community that deserve to be challenged and criticized; I just wish that my precious protagonists didn’t conflate these flaws with effeminacy.
Pokémon, Ranked
What culture doesn’t have a myth of a turtle who keeps the world, or at least a small forest, on its back.
Headshot
Much as I enjoy teaching novels and short stories, video games do something special when played with a group.
Pros and Cons
That’s a heavy con for Madison (Pros: Government job benefits, Roommate Night with my best friends, a church that has become home, cheese).
