Recent Entries
Elizabeth and Van Gogh: Case Studies in Madness
*All Van Gogh quotes taken from gallery.com, in “The Complete Letters”* In the act of creating, there is a level of good vers... read more
Gaza: Close Up - Reported by Raphael Frankl
I never thought I would be drawing parallels between Americans and Israelis, but when Raphael Frankl made the assessment that the majority of the Isra... read more
Into the Chaos: Elizabeth's Brutal Honesty
Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Frodo Baggins: what do they have in comm... read more
The Vagina Monologues: A Culture of Gender
The twenty remaining actresses sit backstage, listening to the second to last “monologue” over the monitor. Miche... read more
"Faith": Masuji Ono vs. Sartre
*All information here credited to Sartre’s philosophies, with minimal exceptions, can be found in Walter Kaufmann’s Existentialism from Do... read more
With Utmost Delicacy
With Utmost Delicacy Post-war Japan is in quiet chaos: her streets are peppered with debris, many of her buildings are nothing but rubble and set... read more
Hestia with Icarusian Tendencies
New Year’s Eve, 2004. 9:30 p.m. I put my jewelry box, my current book, some food, and my purse into a small box. I’m getting ready for my ... read more
Introducing Jen Bird
My name is Jen McDonnell. I am a senior here at CSUC; I will be graduating in May with my BA in English with Honors. I am currently working on my hono... read more









