A Modest Proposal for the MLB
Major League Baseball got greedy and needs to reform.If the regular season is devalued and the playoffs are recognized as essentially meaningless, the MLB may actually lose money.
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Infinite Jest Revisited
The 1996 book by David Foster Wallace saw the Internet explosion, and its effects, approaching fastIf Aldous Huxley were born a few decades later, he and Wallace probably would have exchanged numbers.
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The Last of Us, Episode 9
Getting to the central moral question of the entire seriesThe episode begins with another flashback, showing how Ellie was born. Then, we see that Joel and Ellie have finally reached Salt Lake City, and once there, the writers retell some of the classic scenes from the game. During these scenes, it becomes evident that the two characters are much closer now. I’d say the writers did manage to successfully transition Joel and Ellie from an adversarial partnership to a father-daughter like relationship. Before long; however, the two are disoriented by a flash grenade, and Joel is knocked unconscious. When he wakes up, he sees Marlene, the leader of the Fireflies, standing in a doorway with armed guards around her. They made it to the medical facility after all, but Read More ›
The Last of Us, Episode 6
A tale of zombies and...communism?Episode six starts out strong. We meet an elderly couple who has been living alone in Wyoming. Joel and Ellie break into their cabin and ask for directions in the rudest way possible—at gun point—which is a little over the top, and even the actors playing the couple seem to know it. As Joel sits beside the old pair, holding a gun and acting dour, the elderly man chats with him, sporting a bemused grin. Joel and Ellie get the directions they need and soon come across a group of men and women on horseback who hold them at gunpoint and check to see if they’re infected. Once it becomes clear that Joel and Ellie are fine, the riders ask Read More ›