Congratulations! You’re sick of Microsoft Word! This post is a very quick and dirty introduction to writing a regular, run of the mill English/Humanities college essay or term paper using LaTeX. I’ll show you how to get the software, write the paper, format it, put together the bibliography / works cited, and generate the pdf [...]
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It’s been a long 15 years since I last saw you, but I have to say, they haven’t been kind. I really liked you when I was a confused, overly sensitive, proto-emo kid in ninth grade. Now I’m jaded and see way too much of True Stories in you. You were the perfect distraction for [...]
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Under normal circumstances, this would be a “Snap Movie Apostrophe,” but there’s something about the process I underwent in order to see Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that I feel would get lost in the overly stylised snap apostrophe form. I’d never read the source material before getting an IM inviting me to a [...]
You have taught me why it is that the rich mess around with blow. If my life was one extended series of deferral, I’d turn to blasting lines, too.
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You were not, despite my lame attempt at a pun, about a Spanish eggplant. Instead, you were precisely the sort of movie I would have gotten all bajigitty over a decade ago but now must sneer at, because your rampant implicit hatred for the EU is kind of distasteful. With its flags identifying the nation [...]
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You were a laugh riot—one I have not felt in a long, long time. I think Andreas told me he was going on a Preston Sturges kick, and I figured I’d secretly follow along. I’d seen Sullivan’s Travels, but I think that’s it until I saw you. And, yes, you were absolutely hilarious. There’s the [...]
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You were good to see again, when I could actually hear the dialogue, being the only hipster in the room (my living room). The screening was brought on by a recent re-viewing of Royal T’s, and I’d been burning to see Rushmore again for a while (a weird burning, considering I own it), maybe since [...]
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You were basically Ray with OCD in the place of heroin and planes instead of R&B. When the hell are movies going to stop being so obsessed with psychological subjects? Can I please have a single biopic that isn’t a psychological investigation, or is that, now, a genre convention? At least you were better than [...]
You had one virtue: the sight of the immense “had to destroy the village” collateral damage the Americans inflicted while failing to stop terrorists was hilarious. Too bad the whole rest of you was childish, boring, reactionary shit. You are the Napoloeon Dynamite of the marionette set. Furthermore, saying you’re even-handed because you mock everyone [...]
In George W. Bush’s America, we’re no longer in a post-colonial world. We’re back in a colonial world, and don’t you forget it. What was once an empire run out of the British Isles is now an empire coming out of America. And where the British traded in, I don’t know, spices or something, the [...]
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