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REVIEW: The Spiritual History of English – Andrew Thornton-Norris (Os Justi Press, 2024)

September 22, 2025 Merri
Commentary

Blood in Soil

September 11, 2025 Merri
write letter correspondence
Commentary

The Death of the Letter

August 30, 2025 Merri
AI simulation life
Commentary

Simulating a Corpse

July 11, 2025 Merri
Artificial Society
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society II

March 28, 2025 Merri
Tolkien art literature
BooksClassicCommentary

Art, Tolkien, and Consumer Media Part III: Art as Sub-Creation and Communication

January 21, 2025 Merri
AI NPC machine learning
ClassicCommentary

Artificial Society

December 16, 2023 Merri
COVID conspiracy theory
ClassicCommentary

The Inverted Conspiracy Theory

August 7, 2021 Merri
Old StuffReviews
February 9, 2018 Merri

A Supermodel Frankenstein: Max Richter’s Recomposition of Vivaldi

The flighty repetition of a flurry of violins and winds, blurring all together like the flutter of a sea of

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Old StuffReviews
February 6, 2018 Merri

REVIEW: Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017)

Ostensibly a film rife with race-baiting, intending to highlight the white liberal elite’s crypto-antebellum attitudes toward blacks, Jordan Peele’s Get

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ClassicCommentaryOld Stuff
January 30, 2018 Merri

Find Your Own Van Goh

There’s a distinct feeling of dread that accompanies crossing the threshold into the contemporary art galleries of a metropolitan museum. 

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Old StuffUncategorized
January 26, 2018 Merri

Chinese Catholicism

Last year, it came to be announced that Pope Francis had begun talking with the communist Chinese government over the

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Old Stuff
January 23, 2018 Merri

Women’s March 2018: The Sequel is DOA

Remember the Women’s March?  It was that thing that happened last year where about a half a million women descended

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Old Stuff
January 19, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 5 – The Mouse Is Hungry

This has been an overlong analysis, but now it finally pays off.  What was the purpose of this film?  Why

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Old Stuff
January 16, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 4 – The Moron with a Thousand Faces

George Lucas somewhat autistically based his original Star Wars storyline on a well-known piece of pop-critique by Joseph Campbell, with

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Old Stuff
January 12, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi Is a Failure, Part 3 – The Return of Zutara Fanfiction

A dashing, psychologically unbalanced, absurdly talented villain begins spending time with a pretty, talented young girl with a savior complex. 

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Old Stuff
January 9, 2018 Merri

The Last Jedi is a Failure, Part 2 – Poe’s & Finn’s Un-Excellent Adventures

Read Part 1 of this analysis here.  This segment continues where we left off, diving right into the madness we’re

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Old Stuff
January 5, 2018 Merri

ANALYSIS: The Last Jedi, Failure, and How Not to Write a Story (Part 1 of 5)

There are plenty of things wrong with Star Wars: The Last Jedi.  If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly

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