Tripping? or just Stimulated…or Both.
I was recently reading an article titled “The Trip Treatment” in The New Yorker. It talked about the recent trials regarding the usage of psychedelic drugs on cancer patients in an effort to reduce...
View ArticleTwo Years Almost Gone By, Am I Wise Yet? a couple of birds chirp and whistle,...
I have come to realize now, how there is only a month left in this semester, and how after that, there will only be two years left of college left for me. I am halfway through college already? What the...
View ArticleAm I Still Korean?
I mean technically, I no longer have Korean citizenship. I can never tell if I am going overboard when I exercise my reluctance to be “Koreanâ€. Out of the many I have met with similar backgrounds,...
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But…I don’t like Cats
The cat is an artist. Or the artist is a cat. Or wait. I don’t like cats. I am a dog person, but this claim of identification is purely based on the fact that I have had one dog during my short...
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Beach House at the Royal Oak
On Sept. 19, I experienced Beach House live and the performance was nothing short of spectacular. One thing that I was immediately surprised by was how loud the band was. Listening to their records on...
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A Tribute to Cartoons
The elementary school I went to had a program allowing students to eat lunch at home. So, every now and then, I would sign out at the front office and make my two blocks walk back home. Like a master...
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Internal/External: Island
Cover art for the magazine. Drawn by Brandon Graham. Brandon Graham has once again led me to another interesting find. This time, it is in the form of his multi-artist project called Island – a...
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Kot’s LA
I am not sure if this is a view shared by many, but season two of True Detective was quite disappointing. Nic Pizzolatto tried to do too many things in the allotted runtime of a season whose story...
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Shutter
I remember when Tomb Raider came out. Not the game, but the movie with Angelina Jolie. Terrible movie. But I enjoyed it. All the temple shenanigans and adventure and lets be honest, seeing Jolie, it...
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Dino DNA!
It is axiomatic to say that Jurassic Park made many kids want to become paleontologists. Quite odd given how many people die because of dinosaurs in that film. To which I say, I suppose my initial...
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Fullmetal
The manga starts with Edward questioning what went wrong, calling out for his seemingly missing little brother, yelling that it wasn’t supposed to be like this, and we see that he is missing his left...
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Space in Asterios Polyp
Will Eisner famously used the term sequential art to describe comics. But isn’t film also sequential? Scott McCloud talks about how film is similar if you look at the film itself, and not when it is...
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Plutona
So, I kept hearing about how good Jeff Lemire is at writing comic books. Specifically, those who hyped up his work to me were talking about his book called Descender. So I flipped through the trade...
View ArticleMonsieur Ferguson
I find that the interview, as a format, is absurd. This absurdity becomes highly visible when watching late night. There are only two hosts that have actually made me laugh, Conan O’Brien and Craig...
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