The Writer's Block

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John Stevenson
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  • Crushed Beneath a Fallen Sky

    Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you a crushed dispirited old man. My eyes have become weary. My bones ache. I keep telling those damn kids to get off of my lawn. So how did I? A 23 year old demi-god fall into such a state? I watched Falling Skies premier on TNT, which coincidentally, is also what… Read more

  • Gone with the Wind (Part Deux)

    Today, I join my good friends Waldorf and Statler in the peanut gallery to heckle the movie “Gone with the Wind”. So, as I was saying when last we met, I have nothing but praise for the first three hours of Gone with the wind. The acting was superb, the story was brilliant and easy… Read more

  • How I became a Hyper-Intelligent Super-Brain by playing Videogames.

    First of all, you should watch this video: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2957-Tangential-Learning I’ll wait. Have you watched it? Really? You’re not just saying that? Good, there will be a test on it after class. When I watched this video I began to realize just how much I’d learned from video games, and strangely enough, none of them were Edutainment… Read more

  • How Cracked.com Saved my Life

    So I’ve been going to the gym try and get in shape, well maybe I should say a different shape, as being round is technically a shape. But the last few weeks Ive felt like my lungs were going to burst out of my chest like the xenomorph from Aliens. Everytime im on the elliptical… Read more

  • Game over, man…Game over!

    Its time to close Earth. Pack our bags and head for Mars or Venus. Or anyplace that’s not here! Because our doom is upon us. Behold, look on the face of our destroyer: Watson: A cold calculating construct of circuits. Watson has defeated our best and our brightest in a challenge of willpower and knowledge.… Read more

  • Buried…In Bad Writing

    Buried is a 2009 Spanish film starring Ryan Reynolds and…well actually that’s it. Some other people lend their voices (the stage crew by the quality of it…) but otherwise it’s just Ryan Reynolds in a box. Oh yeah, did I mention it all takes place in a box? Yeah… This is another movie, like Winter’s… Read more