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The park now known as Disney’s Hollywood Studios, a name I have never gotten quite comfortable with, turns 30 this month. Except it really turns 31. As it was known back then, The Disney-MGM Studios was a hybrid, a mutant, not just Disneyland with a different story. The team that...
Have you ever read a fantasy story where there's a neutral space with a collection of portals that lead to other worlds? Like Narnia's "Wood Between the Worlds" and The Magician's "Neitherlands". These in between spaces show up often in sci-fi and fantasy stories and they're pretty cool, right? Well,...
I am not a Catholic. I am not even a Christian in the way that Christians define themselves. I am no architect or art historian. I speak very poor French. Why does the burning of Notre Dame arrest me, stop my breath and line my brow? I think it is...
Are you looking for a good tv show to watch? Have you ever wanted your brain so twisted up that you question life, reality, and existence as you know it? Then I have the answer for you. Interesting and surreal, with excellent acting, The OA will break your brain…but you’ll...
Simply getting older-participating in the entropy attendant to a certain number of solar orbits-confers nothing. Even the much-vaunted acquisition of “life experience” isn’t much good unless, with reflection on it, some testable hypothesis about how the universe might be put together and improved is validated or revised along what prove...
Anybody ever wanted to go on a cruise? Well, today's article comes from freelance writer Ali Carver, who's got a list of cruise suggestions for you. The allure of cruising has been growing in recent years, with the leisure activity no longer seen only as a preserve for the...
I am in a class on Russian fairytales (which, if you were wondering, dark stuff) and one of the big things we’ve been seeing is that fairytale characters are pretty one dimensional. It’s actually one element used to identify something as a fairy tale. This has been difficult for me....
What’s even MORE amazing than three “super-moons” in the first 3 months of 2019…?!! If you saw it last night, the almost-full super moon was already filling the sky. It’s the second of three super moon events in the first three months of the year, and will look enormous...
Spoilers for the movie Bird Box...in case you didn't guess... I’ve never been a scary movie person. I don’t really know why not. I love a good Poe short story or dark fairytale, some of my drawings tend to creep people out, and I have lots of fun playing freaky...
Spoilers for the Netflix show Russian Doll. You have been warned. "The universe is trying to fuck with me and I refuse to engage!" -Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll Some days you get ahead on your German homework, and some days you watch that new show that you’ve been...
Short stories are difficult. I love reading them, I don’t love writing them. I sometimes have to write them though, which is probably good for me, but seriously, I admire all the writers who are known for their short stories. And I know some people prefer writing short stories. I...
As those impassioned New Year’s Resolutions to get in shape start to lose steam this third week of January, we thought we’d try to rekindle your muscle-bound moxie with a story about a project that put the IDEAS team to the ultimate creative workout. Around 2010, the United States was...
