Category: Writing

Baffled by Dinosaurs: When Books Ignore Your Expectations

Have you ever read a book by Stant Litore? Because, if you have, you’ll know that he writes this deep, emotional, and intellectual stuff. Stuff that gets at important questions in life. Moving, profound stuff. You’ll also know that that stuff also involves things like zombies and shadowy aliens and monsters coming out of the chest of a man while he’s sleeping. I’m always vaguely baffled by his work, how he puts together these elements that we wouldn’t normally think

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The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author!

I’m taking a class on video games, and today we had a lecture (partly) about whether video games can be art. Apparently, there was a dude whose name I didn’t catch who said that video games can’t ever be considered art because they “lack authorial intent”. Class discussion looked at other things that we would consider art and how that statement doesn’t apply to them, and that whole idea of the death of the author came up. In case you’ve

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How Far Would You Go For the Sake of a Joke?

An hour left to the airport found me returning from the bathroom, only to find a rental car parked between me and my bike. The driver leaned against the side of the car, cup of coffee in hand. He waved. “Quit following me.” I threw the sentence behind me as I walked past. “I’m not following you. Just going home.” “Then take. A different. Route.” Back atop my bike, I leaned forward, ready to start it. “Oh, sure, I’ll just

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No More Blog Posts, Hallelujah!

It’s probably safe to say that we can consider blog posts to be a specific genre of writing. This genre contains several sub-genres (lists, articles, discussion starters, etc), and may blend with other genres (the posts on Hyperbole and a Half lie right on the border between blog post and comic), but we could also think of several situations that we would not properly consider a blog post per se (like tweets, Facebook status updates, or newly submitted pieces on

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The Importance of Cats and Writing What You Know (Part 3 of 3)

Well, if you feed Catstein, take it out to play, give it water, all that, it’ll grow bigger and stronger. Then it’ll be able to build you a bigger stool, or even a ladder. Or it could build you a rocket pack. Could you imagine how hard it would be to pick that fruit if you didn’t have Catstein here to help you? But there’s something even more important than Catstein. Sure, there’s always going to be things in a

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The Tree Remembers
Like Mist Over the Eyes
The Kitten Psychologist Broaches the Topic of Economics
The Kitten Psychologist
Plunged Ashore
The Kitten Psychologist Versus The Kitten's Owners