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College + Internship Journalism
"Bro Jed" brings his confrontational evangelism to the Quad
A-B Inbev: Consumers up in arms
Absurd politics and tomfoolery in the YouTube reptile community
Altonian running for Georgia office
Area darts team on target in Vegas
Bank shares new space with coffee shop, shipping store
Battle of the Bend
Benefit to help late couple's family
Best Bakery: Pekara
Bethalto boy wins trip to All-Star Game
Cars in park
Contestants' losses are food pantry's gain
CUB helps consumers lower bills
District using state grant to improve students' diet
Duck race will benefit disabled brothers
Fire damages garage
Flood covers Great River Road
Fund-raiser set for Brighton woman
FYCARE program teaches freshmen to support rape survivors
High water brings boating safety to fore
Holiday Shores couple's home destroyed by fire
Interviewing Harold & Kumar
LCCC focuses on corporate training
Lightning strike sends wood flying
Local and regional filmmakers to showcase their films at the Urbana IMC
Lowe's builds new playground for YWCA
Mall modifications
Mold causes concern in floodwaters' wake
N*GGER W*TBACK CH*NK: Before you Judge it, Watch it
News crews document Grafton flooding
Note to Self: Buy Ebertfest tickets earlier
Oktoberfest to bring taste of Germany to Alton
Police watching roads during holiday weekend
Political adventure
Rivers falling slowly after crests
Route 66 Festival drives to Edwardsville on Friday
Runaway teen, baby found safe in St. Charles
School year starts Wednesday for some
Select director
The Dark Knight premieres at Goodrich Savoy 16
The Vineyard Ain't Your Momma's Church
Thinking Outside the Multiplex
Turnaround seen in real estate market
Two controversial films premiere at the Independent Media Center
College + Other Work
Book Reviews
Fear, Some : Poems by Douglas Kearney
Stuff White People Like, by Christian Lander
Movies
Plays & Screenplays
As You Like It: Well-Done
Get Red Right
College Creative Writing
Angela Robinson
Confinement
Creative Nonfiction
A Summer Stuck at Gas Mart
All the World Should Not be a Stage
Have You Ever Seen a Grown Man Naked
The Blockbuster Total Access Saga, Part I: Wait, what?!
The Blockbuster Total Access Saga, Part II: Fear and loathing in Urbana
The Blockbuster Total Access Saga, Part III: Two letters (The conclusion)
Where to Eat in Illinois' State Capital at 2 a.m. on a Weeknight
Edward Cicholski
Greg Daughtry
Hans Schumann
In a Jiffy
Introduction
Lighten Up
Mark Marinetti
Megan Cauley
ONE NIGHT AT KAM'S
Paul Thomas Griffin
Pedestrian
Sunsets
College Essays
"The Fish": A Struggle for Survival
A History of My Language
After Life as a Study on the Line between Fiction and Documentary
Amy Lowell's "St. Louis" and Yearning for the New England Past
Chaplain and Orou's Dialogue
Closure in Persepolis: How Comics and Films on the Same Subject Work Differently
Comparing Diderot's Tahitians with Equiano's Africans
Contrasting Human and Animal Communication
Curious Gump
Different, Not Worse: A Study in the Change in English-Language Oratory Techniques
Erec and Enide
Ernest Hemingway: In Limbo between Sexism and Feminism
Figner's Progression from Reformist to Radical
Godard's Marxist Message
Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, and Captain Kidd's Kids
Hemingway's "The Battler"
Hemingway's Photographic and Cinematic Style of Prose
Hitchcock's Knack for the Psychological Thriller in the Early Sound Era, as Evidenced in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Ignorance is Bliss
In Denial
Inspiring Insects: Ants as Sources of Literary Afflatus
It's All about the Benjamins: The Cid and His Quest for His Enemies' Riches
Kurosawa's Combination of Tradition and Innovation
Lady Snowblood
Laughing at As You Like It's Ending, Not with It
Life as a Movie
Listen to me: You Were Not Hired to Think
Literary autobiography
Looking Both Ways: Modernity as Contradiction and Paradox
Mississippian Maize Agriculture: Not Merely a Staple Crop, but a Way of Life
Nights of Cabiria: A Neorealist Work, but is it Realistic?
Not Just Digression
Physical and Cultural Changes Leading to Language
Racism against Us and Them in "Yoneko's Earthquake" and "The Toughest Indian in the World"
Seeing with Both Eyes: Combining Two Theories of Art Criticism
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Slow Motion Misogyny in Raging Bull
So We Beat on
Soviet Comedy: The Kuleshov Effect in The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
Strange Night Gowns, or Lack Thereof
The Boatswain as the Proletarian Sailor with Relative Autonomy
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Futile Struggle for Assimilation: Anthony Blanche and Rex Mottram in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited
The Inferno
The Inferno and the Hellish Rite of Unholy Baptism
The Myth of Western Progress
The Phallic Gun as Masculine Confidence in "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
The Poem of the Cid
The Possibility of Poetry and Western Civilization
The Power of Submission in The Taming of the Shrew
The Relationship between Frankenstein and His Creature
The Song of Roland
The Soothsayer's Indictment of the King
The Television Behemoth: An Eminent Force in Fiction and Reality
Top-Knots and Afros
Troilus and Cressida
Visible and Invisible Technologies in The Great Gatsby and The Third Policeman
Weak, Perfidious, Wicked, and Cunning: The Many Perceptions of the "Other"
Whipping M. Gilbert Porter's Critique with My Displeasure
Whitman's Dual Realities of Invention and Poetic Vision
Whitman's Free Verse: Untraditional, but Not Unskilled
College Film Reviews
A look at Ebertfest's past
Awake
Bangkok Dangerous
Barry Lyndon (1975): Another feast for the eyes from Stanley Kubrick
Blame it on Fidel
Catch-22 (1970): A nightmare in the best kind of way
Charlie Wilson's War
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
Chop Shop
Christmas on Mars: A surrealist, sci-fi holiday movie to blow your mind
Daratt
Director Spotlight: Quentin Tarantino
Doubt
Drillbit Taylor
DVD Pick -- Modern Times
DVD Pick: Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
DVD Pick: Lady Snowblood
DVD Pick: Mean Streets
DVD Pick: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
DVD Pick: The French Connection (1971)
DVD Pick: The Street Fighter
DVD Review: Be Kind Rewind
Ebertfest preview: Chop Shop
Flight of the Red Balloon
Gold Diggers of 1933: A classic musical relevant today
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: A documentary thrill ride into the mind of a mad genius
Gran Torino
Hamlet 2: Ballsy comedy and inspirational movie spoof
Hitman
How She Move
In Theaters -- Resident Evil: Extinction, Good Luck Chuck, and Into the Wild
Max Payne -- Interview and Review -- 1 star
Meet Dave
Michael Clayton
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Nothing Like the Holidays -- 3 stars
Notorious
Persepolis
Pineapple Express
Punisher: War Zone -- 3 stars
Saw IV
Slumdog Millionaire -- 4 stars
Son of Rambow: A director’s boyhood dream realized on film
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Summer movies NOT to see
Synecdoche, New York: Another mindfuck-and-a-half by Charlie Kaufman
The Band's Visit
The Bank Job
The Bucket List
The Coat Hanger Project and Abortion Democracy
The Counterfeiters: A captivating account of a largely untold Holocaust story
The Dark Knight
The Fall
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Great Debaters
The Onion Movie: A fun collection faux news segments
The Rocker
The Spirit -- 1.5 stars
The Visitor
The Wackness: Canned 90s nostalgia with a great soundtrack
Traitor
Tropic Thunder
Under the Same Moon
Vanaja
Vertigo (1958): Perhaps Hitchcock’s greatest work
Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show
Waltz with Bashir
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden: Morgan Spurlock’s sophomore slump
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music, The Director’s Cut
Wristcutters: A Love Story
X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- 2 stars
Yes
Young@Heart
College Poetry
A Haight-Ashbury Loner’s Afternoon Agenda
A Prying Eye
Daisy Patton
Dorothy Friedrichs (1910-1978)
Elegy to Imagism
H. Morgan Friedrichs
Halfstina of a Consumer Letdown
I Resolve
Jacob Henry (1910-1977)
Lucy Goldsmith (1913-1986)
Martha Henry (1891-1953)
Reverend Arthur Nesbitt (1879-1950)
The Jacob Henry Suite
Victimized Cloth
Contact
INK FIST: All Posts, Sorted by Date
2009 Movies I Missed
A Serious Man
Afro Samurai (2007)
An Education
Avatar
Black Dynamite
Boardwalk Empire (Eps. 1 and 2)
Books I've Read Since Moving to New York
Books I've Read Since Moving to New York
CineNotes I
Crazy Heart
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 7
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 7 Finale
Dan Savage: The Column and the Lovecast
Deadpool #900
Easy A
Embyronic, by The Flaming Lips
Face, by Sherman Alexie
Favorite Holiday Movie: Home Alone (1990)
Flickchart & the Filmspotting podcast
Flood Song, an epic poem by Sherwin Bitsui
Gomorra: Criterion Collection DVD
Greenberg
INK FIST: Odds & Ends
INKFIST: Posts about books and other writing
INKFIST: Posts about Film & TV
Kick-Ass
Machete -- Video Review
Music I've Been Listening To
My Thoughts on Criticism + The Wiccan Rede
New Moon
New Movies I Saw in 2009
Once Upon a Time in the West -- St. Louis Int'l Film Festival
Oscar Picks
Paranormal Activity
Precious
Punisher Max: Kingpin (Issues #1-5)
Second Reading Book Shop -- Alton, IL
Shutter Island
Some Like It Hot
St. Louis Public Radio's Spring Pledge Drive
Ten Books to Cherish for Life
Ten Minutes of Forever, by Andrew London (Master of Copy-Paste Fiction)
The Amazing Spider-Man: The Gauntlet
The Associate, by John Grisham
The Black Automaton, by Douglas Kearney
The Book of Jokes, by Momus
The Lovely Bones
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Top Movies of 2009
Twilight: One year later
Up in the Air
What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going, by Damion Searls (Dalkey Archive Press)
Whatever Works
World's Greatest Dad
Worst 5 Movies of 2009
Public Relations
An Encounter with the Magical Miss Virginia
Better Business Bureau Recognizes Big Brothers Big Sisters
Operation: All-Star
United Way Kickoff
Site Updates
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