What might it look like to do nothing? It sounds easy in principle, but if you were to do nothing on a beach, what then? The sunbeams drench you in the salt of many faraway waters. Couples and families come […]
I owe my music passion to the black artists that soundtrack Roll Bounce. Prior to my experience with this movie, I had zero interest in music. At most, I got excited for Maroon 5 or Coldplay on the radio. But […]
Before I could get my hands on that black-and-purple colored VHS tape titled THE EXORCIST, I had to settle for horror with training wheels. However, my gateway into the genre was not any less credible with animation and a groovy […]
It is Black Country out there…Â Here, things fall apart in the name of industry. Rocks crumble into dust with the plinks of pickaxes. Soot drifts along the sky like evidence of the paranormal. Always particles, an innumerable shower of […]
Picture this: the Bond girl from The World Is Not Enough falls in love with Paul Walker. Walker dies and has his brain implanted by a mad scientist into a mechanical T-Rex. Rampage ensues throughout the city. After a few […]
The Black Country is a region of the West Midlands, England renowned for its soot. Air pollution. Sometimes, a wisp of smoke is so thick that it clouds the blue air of daylight with nightfall. The clang of industrialized metal […]
I am scared of the world we are living in right now. Not because of a cold virus wreaking havoc in our little cells, but from a sheer lack of empathy in powerful places. In microbiology, you learn early on […]
We all know that we are going to die someday. It could be tomorrow, it could be in half a century, but we do not know. Life is all that we know. And no matter how hard I try to […]
Less than 100 days have passed since the clock struck 12:00 AM on New Year’s Eve. And yet, it seems that entire lifetimes have passed by. I understand the frustrations of canceled movie premieres and concerts, but we must do […]
I was not always a fan of Jane Austen. If you could spot my nose behind a book, it would probably be behind something as serious as Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. I love her modernist style. Her novels are guides […]
