Trolls Attack Miss Utah
The internet is not the place to look for really inspirational comments from the people we live with, work with, and laugh with — it’s the field where trolls play. […]
Author Archives: Laura Creel
Life and Death Come Together in Washington, D.C.
In “Hamlet in Purgatory,” Stephen Greenblatt writes that the line between life and death was far more ambiguous in the medieval and early modern periods than it is for us […]
This One Goes Out to the Ladies Who Love Men Who Love Sports
“Oh yeah,” Hannah said when I asked her if her boyfriend became angry and moody at the loss of a game by a favorite sports team, “One time he threw […]
Mine Eyes Have Beheld the Monkey-Humans of Ages Past!
Several months ago, I wrote an article informing you all about the danger monkeys pose and particularly about the danger monkeys pose when humans anthropomorphize them. I thought this was […]
Heads Up: Don’t Ask for a Cup of Water on Spirit Airlines. Denied!
Hey guess what? You’re thirsty? Well don’t expect Spirit Airlines to offer you any complementary tap water. If you ask for it, you’ll be told that they “don’t give out […]
Watsky’s “Sloppy Seconds” First on My Playlist
George Watsky had me at the first three chords of “Sloppy Seconds,” which sound like they come straight off an Adele album. When I first heard about him and his […]
Nikki Sixx is Super Annoying and Takes Himself Waaaay 2 Srsly
Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe has called out Kim Kardashian for tweeting about bronzer in the wake of the Oklahoma tornado disaster. He tweeted her, saying: “Pick your priority or […]
What Luhrmann’s Lacks, Fitzgerald’s Struggles Under: The Weightiness of Death in “The Great Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is lush like Keats’ poetry. Reading the novel in high school, I missed this lushness, the passages dripping with beauty and the prose rhythm […]
Please, Google Glass, I’m Just Not That Cool
The more I think about the advertising industry, the more deceptive it seems. It seems like commercials for products like Google Glass and Microsoft Outlook have become particularly manipulative and […]
Charles Ramsey, Amanda Berry and the Value of Human Connection
We hear a lot these days about how social media and generically-termed “technology” are ruining the ways we see and interact with other humans. These conversations take place in the […]
Little Utopia 