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You’re Not Straight. You’re Not Gay. You’re Not Bisexual Either.
It’s called the Flextuality test, and in a little under 15 minutes you can finally pinpoint your real sexual orientation once and for all. Take the test and you’ll see…
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Five Terrifying Serial Killers in Recent History
The five serial killers cataloged in this article are from Ukraine, the United States, and Japan. When they committed their crimes, they were 19, 48, 32 and 60 years old.…
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Why ‘Breathless’? A Retrospective On Jean-Luc Godard’s Masterpiece
I thought that it was kind of a cliché to be so into it – some of the other students who had seen it even told me that – but…
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One Snort
Then who were those teenage goons sent to frighten us wee children back in grade school with tales of life-ending catastrophe and humbling community service hours spent plucking trash, orange…
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‘Network’ Or How TV Kills Everything
All I know is first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, “I’m a human being goddammit. My life has value.” So I want you to get up…
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A Less Bloody Ethics: On ‘True Blood’
The ads for True Blood play on this: “Thou shalt not crave they neighbor.” But of course we do crave each other –– for love, sex, money, nurturing, healing, playing.…
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Television on ‘The Wire’: Extension, Expansion, Proliferation
The Wire performs what television can formally be, what it formally wants to be, how it wants to go. Television is not suited for the climax and dénouement that Hollywood…