31-year-old writer, film enthusiast, reader, musician, and IT professional committed to social justice, a lot of pop-culture consumption, and eating as much Chipotle as humanly possible.
Read the full text here (opens in a new tab). Summary: Adam and Eve double the human population and then several years later they’re down by 25% because SOMEONE got salty about God liking his brother’s sacrifice over his and decided to commit the first ever capital crime about it. Eve births a Replacement Son™ … More Day 2: Genesis 4-7
Read the full text here (opens in a new tab). Summary: God creates the world in six days and declares it all very good. God then creates humans to rule over the animals. He then tells them to eat from any tree except this specific one or you’ll die. A serpent says “nah” and they … More Day 1: Genesis 1-3
Hi, hello, how are ya? Still trying to stay afloat during an ongoing pandemic while also contending with *checks notes* the biggest European land invasion since WWII by a tyrannical despot who could nuke us to kingdom come at the drop of a hat? Cool, coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool. Right, so…it’s been a minute. My last post is … More And Now, For Something Completely Different
Greetings, folx! I know, I know — it’s been forever. I’ve been going through an egregious writer’s block since…2016? Suffice to say, long-form posts have just been a no-go. Rather than continuing to hate myself for not even trying anymore, I decided to allow myself the freedom of shorter form writing. I have also missed … More I Created a Newsletter!
Alright, look. Making movies is haaaaard. I know this first hand. Whether it’s film 1 or 100, every movie brings challenges unique to its production. BvS is no different and it’s hard to criticize it whenAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh my god, I’m fully kidding. FUCK that. Every single person with any weight on this production should … More Review: Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Note: as I was writing the notebook version, this became more about Facebook than social media in general; which says quite a lot, I think. Facebook is basically ubiquitous. It IS social media. Period. It’s hard to remember a time before the social media boom. Before smartphones solved the issue of having to carry … More 5 Problems With Social Media
Generally, this is where the writer inserts a preamble that sneakily tries to hide the fact that this article is more style than substance. Here, have a GIF! 1. Is this list contributing in some way? The blogosphere is so saturated with thinkpieces and lists of forgotten 90s toys that a quick Google search … More 4 Things To Consider Before Writing Your Clickbait Listicle
Tonight was supposed to be a team building/super fun times activity for the customer service team. We were gonna do go–karts around the Allstar Grand Prix in Sterling and it was gonna be awesome! Until it wasn’t. Like, right off the bat it wasn’t. I was already bummed that it was tonight since the … More In which Amanda tries to go-kart with her coworkers in the spirit of team building, but is turned down for being too much people.
Finally decided to revive this blog and for what? To review a modern teen horror movie? Wars have been declared for less. I laughed a lot when I saw the trailer for Unfriended. I couldn’t help myself. The one on–screen death they showed was hilarious and the entire premise just seemed like a lame … More Review: Unfriended (2014)
This was a landmark year for me in terms of media consumption. Last year was the first year that I saw enough new movies to even come up with a top ten list. This year, I was able to do that again and even have a hard time choosing a top ten because I … More My Top 10 Movies of 2014
Amanda Kathryn Storey 