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“Deny nothing, doubt everything.” – Lord George Byron

Our intentions make blackguards of us all. – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, 1782

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain. – Lord George Byron

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— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

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  • Censorship: Philosophical Thought and Modern Examples

    Throughout history, many examples of societies benefitting from a better idea of the truth exist.  As an example, take the protestant reformation and Luther’s rather loud and, at the time, controversial criticisms of the Catholic church. It was not popular then but necessary because of church corruption. The main idea behind freedom of speech is…

  • The Witching Hour (1990) & the human necessity for faith in change and in will and in accident

    “Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.” – Petyr Van Abel, The Witching Hour (1990), by Anne Rice Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of…

  • Anne Rice, five years later, memento vivere, and ‘evil as food for genius’

    the necessity of the dark and remembering that the only power that exists is within ourselves Alternatively titled: Anne Rice and the fallacy of acting well enough to be ‘one of the good ones’  “Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we…

  • Dangerous Liaisons, a study on the trouble with decorum, power and control 

    “perfections are chimerical and exist only in… imagination.” – Les Liaisons dangereuses,  Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782) Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: (Exceeding) 10, noteworthy only because until recently I knew very little in the way of plays as opposed to musicals and other forms of theatre, and because the 1988 movie and the…

  • Beetlejuice the musical and the subversive yet timeless wisdom of ‘memento mori’ 

    All in all, it is safe to say humans have grappled with this inevitably many different ways, artistically and otherwise. So, I find it very reasonable to ask how one would explain the universality of death to a child. I think Beetlejuice the musical, as Beetlejuice the film (1988) it answers this very well. As…

  • Blood and Belonging: Sinners (2025) and the Marginalized Body

    “You Twins?’ ‘Nah, We’re Cousins.’” – Twins Smoke, and Stack (Sinners 2025) Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: 10. If I permit myself to rank it above 10, it would be far higher, as it truly deserves.  Likes: The world building, the casting, the sets and costume designs, and I deeply appreciate the fact that…

  • The Vampyre: A History.

    An incredibly brief history of vampires as it relates to The Company of Death by Elisa Hansen. First written in English as John Polidori’s The Vampyre: a tale in 1816, The earliest recorded folklore we have of vampires in the western world are from Europe, what is now Romania and Transylvania specifically. That said bloodsuckers…

  • What Constitutes Evil?

    What makes one evil? “Evil is a point of view… God kills indiscriminately, and so shall we.” (Anne Rice, Interview With The Vampire, 1976) Well, in real life, that is simple, “harm none, do as ye will” (the Wiccan rede). In fiction, it is complicated. In the first three Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, the…

  • Franklin (Apple TV): a poignant reminder 

    (Franklin on Apple TV is) a compelling story about power, deception, identity and family – Meera, 2024  Spoiler-free review:  Rating: 8 out of 10  Likes: casting, acting, costuming, set choices, and the score.  Critiques: It is by far the best-fictionalized portrayal of La Chevaliere d’eon I’ve ever seen, I just wish she could be explored…

  • Beyond the Barricade

    It is a poignant adaptation of the unashamedly political Victor Hugo novel.  – Meera, 2024 Spoiler-free review:  Rating: 10 out of 10  Likes: casting, acting, costuming and set choices, and the music.  Critiques: Often diverges from the source material in favour of what is lyrical rather than is in character, also I wish Cosette could…

  • Sex Work Regulation: A Necessary Reform 

    Sex work is one of the oldest livelihoods in the world. The regulation by governmental entities of the sex trade and the workers in it has been tossed around the Western World for a very long time.  Here, we distinguish between legalization and regulation. Legalization is the (Lister)decriminalization of a sex worker to sell sexual…

  • Godzilla Minus One: the horror of trauma and facing monsters as a community

    Spoiler-free review:  Rating out of 10: 10  Likes:  It is a solid standalone movie with a well-written cast of characters and a still poignant narrative message.  Critiques: I would’ve liked them to point out more the hypocrisy of America and Japan’s government, but that is more a nitpick than anything else.  Spoiler review:  Godzilla Minus…

  • Hadestown: we’re gonna sing it again 

    “It’s also, at its climax, a story about the necessity of believing in each other and in our togetherness; even when we feel alone.” –  Anäis Mitchell on Hadestown’s post-pandemic significance

  • Oppenheimer: genius not martyr 

    Julius Robert Oppenheimer, better known as J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and was the director of the Los Almos Laboratory during World World War II in an arms race against the Nazis and Axis powers. In short terms, he gave us the atomic bomb and is the reason war today is unheard…

  • How far I’ve come

    Advocate, Poet, Quaintrelle, these are just a few words I’ve often prescribed myself as identities, labels if you will. But I’m also biracial (South Asian) genderqueer (they/them), bi, and more. As of July 15th, 2023 I turned 20 years old. What is a label? Well, the Oxford dictionary defines it as a classifying label or…

  • Phantom of the Opera: the power of Death and the Maiden

    Part 1: She looked as beautiful as if she had been dead. In the simplest terms “Death and the maiden” is a common renaissance art motif, that of a young woman or “the maiden” and a personification of death. One of the earliest pre-Christian examples of death and the maiden is Hades and Persephone. Made…

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