Disclaimer: Contains major spoilers for the film Obsession, directed by Curry Barker. Between AI slop, El Nino and wars in every country, it’s been a rough week but your girlfriend is adamant about watching This Week’s Trending Film at the local theatre. She promises you that it’ll be fun. Two hours later… From the Boyfriend’s […]
I’m Max Callahan, P.I. That stands for Private Investigator if you’re not hip to the detective game like me. You might be more familiar with my uncle Dirty Harry. Dirty Harry Barkowski. He runs a rug cleaning service in Hoboken, New Jersey. He also bowls for the Hoboken Purple Hornets. If you’ve never heard of […]
“MONA!” bellowed Maverick Moody, on an otherwise tranquil Tuesday morning. “MONA! The children have sent something. I think it’s a bomb.” Mrs Moody shuffled in from the kitchen, wiping her hands on a towel that had seen better decades. On the dining table sat a small cylindrical device with a faint blue ring glowing around […]
They said it couldn’t happen again. They said humanity had matured—grown out of its adolescence of nation-states, flags, and blood-flecked rhetoric. They said the world was too interconnected, too enlightened, too busy streaming prestige dramas to care about real ones. And yet, here we are again. Dust off your bunker plans and rehearse your monologues—conflict […]
In the intricate world of politics, where power and posturing are as essential as a good moisturiser, every layer and application affects the overall look and vibe of things. Here’s a cleverly crafted step-by-step guide to the nightly skincare routine of the vibrant orange-hued right, where each step deftly mirrors their sanctimonious approach to reshaping […]
How are law review submissions like looking for a husband? You set up your profile on Bumble or Scholastica, pouring your heart out in twenty-five words or twenty-five thousand words, making sure your footnotes are Bluebooked to perfection, and ticking boxes for a subset of the eight hundred or so journals and potential suitors, depending […]
On that note, let me tell you why culture—the searing operas of Verdi, the laconic retorts of Leonidas to Xerxes, the tumultuous, plague striking, machinations of the French intelligentsia, just before the cusp of 1789 is just that: worthless. Mankind, you see, has grown from its shell. It has, I would say, outgrown its shell. […]
ART: Man who caked Mona Lisa now deemed celebrity in modern art circles The enigmatic man-cum-old-lady, accidentally pulled off a stupendous victory for the Modern Art campers by destroying a priceless piece of classical art(Oh wait, he didn’t actually damage it?). Reports indicate that he has been invited by Greta Thunberg to replace her at […]
John Quincy Adams once said, “I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.” Well, he got his wish, because it looks like we’re in the age of his grandchildren. With the advent of a whole generation of […]
“There’s no need to specify that it’s not funny,” said Sam. “In what situation would too much traffic be funny?”