Author: Chuck
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Red Room Resolutions
How the Twin Peaks dream sequence brought about an unexpected but inspiring crisis of confidence.
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That Gum I Liked Has Gone Out of Style
A new appreciation of Twin Peaks spins totally out of control into an analysis of The X-Files, my long-standing hatred of the 1990s, and the unsettling realization that the series actually makes sense to me now.
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Showtime, Synergy!
Disney Infinity 2.0 shows how charm (and a ludicrous amount of development and marketing money) always win in the end.
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It’s a Good Life
Everything we do is to make our audiences feel like they’re the most important person in the whole world. And that’s a real good thing.
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So Much Effort
A silly game from Nintendo raises the eternal question: why do LGBT types always make such a fuss every time they’re deliberately and actively excluded?
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Homophobish
A year-old prose fart on Slate perfectly illustrates the difference between marriage equality and “gay marriage,” and exactly why it’s an important distinction.
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Thoughtcrimes for $1000
What is, “A bullshit false equivalence that reduces the push for genuine equality to nothing more than wishy-washy moral relativism,” Alex?
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How I Spent My Decade
Internet, did I ever tell you about the time I spent the better part of a decade watching a contrived, sentimental, raunchy, silly, and formulaic sitcom, and bawling my eyes out over it?
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The Party of the First Part
The tragic hilarity that results when people take the term “social contract” too literally