Watershed

Re-imagining the Net Neutrality "Debate"

Karl Marx has found his way into the discussion concerning net neutrality in myriad ways; all for the wrong reasons. From the nod to Marx...

Whose Nostalgia?: Mad men writing about "Mad Men"

I’ll admit to being late to the Mad Men party. While the series debuted in 2007, I am still slogging through season 6 on Netflix—empha...

Violence in Westeros

Like so many of my nonviolent friends, I am drawn to HBO’s television adaptation Game of Thrones. And as I watch characters lose heads, h...

Peter Berlin's Strange, Dark Fantasies

Peter Berlin’s That Boy (1974) emerged within the golden age of gay male pornographic films and in the aftermath of the development of th...

Nostalgia in Motion

“…nostalgia. It's delicate... but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound.' It's a ...

Snowpiercer Ideology in the Sci Fi Summer

I saw three films in a movie theater this summer, all science fiction. I will say that the last half of Godzilla was entertaining. I’m gl...

2014 Overview: The World Wide Interwebs

My affinity for technology—and video games in particular—can be traced back to playing games like DOOM on MS-DOS on the family computer. ...

2014 Overview: Exceptional Violence

While traversing the vast desert spaces of southern Idaho recently, I listened to a podcast* discussing the MPAA Rating system. The podca...

2014 Overview: The Uses of Nostalgia

What are we looking for when we look to the past? This is a question I find myself dealing with nearly every time I sit down to write a p...

2014 Overview: Gay Male Pornography

Allow me to present a particular series of images. The fourth scene of Michael Lucas’s Urine Fist Fest begins with Adam Killian and Chris...

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