Proper Oklahoma weather has finally come. The “snow” is all ice and slick and impossible to play with. None of that “real” stuff we got over Christmas. That just wasn’t right. Unfortunately, this weather traps you inside. So, let’s talk movies. In this weather, we need a good laugh. From a movie that isn’t seen […]
Archive > January 2010
Coming of Age
I return from my break revitalized and full of literary wiles. And said wiles implore me to advocate a book by newly minted novelist Erik Raschke, The Book of Samuel. This novel is wholly relatable in that it hearkens to a lot of the fundamental truths of what it is to be an adolescent, from […]
Countdown to Homelessness: 116 Days
Ohhhhh myyyyy gossssssssh. Is it seriously time to start doing school stuff again?? I could’ve sworn I was just playing in the snowdrifts of Blizzard 2009! Why is that time only flies when I’m sleeping late and eating home-cooked food, and not when I’m pulling 8 hour shifts at the library? You fail, Time. You […]
Jackson Does it Again…
The Lovely Bones directed by Sir Peter Jackson is a visual masterpiece. It’s the coming-of-age story in the afterlife. A young girl, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), is murdered at the age of fourteen. But she hasn’t left her family behind. She watches and she waits, living the life she will never have through those […]